Experience

• 3D Character Artist at Skymill

  Tokyo

  May 2023 - April 2024

• Lead 3D Character Artist at SOLA DIGITAL ARTS

  Tokyo

  December 2021 - April 2023

   Created high-poly Zbrush sculpts and rig-ready topology for main characters in an unreleased cinematic project.
  
   Guided and provided feedback to Junior and Mid-Level 3D Artists, ensuring proper communication between the team.
  
   Worked closely with other departments to problem solve Character Art related pipeline issues.
  
   Created hundreds of optimized UV tiles between a large range of stylized characters.
  
   Wrote documentation for various parts of the Character Art pipeline, bringing new workflows and ideas to the team's toolset.

• 3D Character & Technical Artist at Subvrsive

  Austin, United States of America

  October 2018 - November 2021

   Authored 17 fully rigged and animated dog characters for an
  
  Amazon Unity AR game, shipping over 25,000,000 units.
  
   Incorporated years of knowledge of human anatomy to create male and female player characters through Maya, Zbrush, and Substance.
  
   Sculpted 2 characters and engineered animation rigs for complex climbing gear for a first-person Unity VR game on the Oculus Quest.
  
   Created 3 high-poly and low-poly 3D characters, with edge flow optimization and animation tree logic for the Black-Eyed Peas.
  
   Teamed up with Amazon’s creative team to design, Model, rig, and animate 5 organic sunflower characters for an interactive game.
  
   Collaborated with Disney, Instagram, and Snapchat, to produce optimized and realistic 3D clothing models.
  
   Designed and modeled 5 Low-Poly Star Wars props for an Amazon AR Unity game, filling in design gaps and translating 2D to 3D.
  
   Built hundreds of hard surface assets and materials with
  
  node-based shader networks for prototype car interiors.
  
   Cooperated with developer team to redesign art pipeline for mobile optimization` and visual consistency.
  
   Spearheaded development of GLTF 3D character models, rigs, and animations using Python, and MEL for the Lens.io web AR platform.
  

• 3D Environment Artist at Spoon Designs, LLC

  San Antonio, United States of America

  July 2018 - August 2018

   Devised and personally developed a multitude of unique environment assets using Maya and Substance Painter.
  
   Optimized game-ready models and created shaders with strict requirements and tight deadlines.
  
   Implemented models, PBR textures, and shaders into a
  
  Unity 2017 VR game environment.