Experience

• Texture Artist at Amazon Games

  Montreal, CA

  November 2024 - Present

  Working on an unannounced title.

• Lead Environment Artist at Offworld Industries

  Vancouver, CA

  February 2024 - Present

  Working on Starship Troopers: Extermination, I was responsible for:
  
  * Managing, creating and auditing textures, shaders and assets for use with environment assets
  
  * Working with level designers on 2 km size levels and providing guidance of possible performance bottlenecks, providing solutions to problems
  
  * Training the environment team on UE5 Nanite/Lumen/World Partition best practices
  
  * Optimizing textures and assets for better performance in both Console (PS5 and Xbox) and PC
  
  * Managing outsourcing art output, providing feedback and training on new workflows for vendors (UE5, Nanite, Lumen, World Partition)
  
  * Assisting the Art Director with making sure levels feel cohesive, performant and part of the Starship Troopers brand

• Senior Material Artist at Relic Entertainment

  Vancouver, CA

  July 2022 - December 2023

  Working on Age of Empires IV Live Ops, I was responsible for:
  
  Creating benchmark assets as well as documentation for outsourcing partners;
  
  Reviewing assets from outsourcers, correcting and submitting feedback to them;
  
  Troubleshooting shaders and reviewing/documenting HSLS code on proprietary engine;
  
  Spearheading historical research for all materials for a civilization, as well as quantifying the amount and layout of said materials and how they would be used on assets for maximum reuse;
  
  Research and Development testing a new engine for the company as the person with the most experience with it; creating internal documentation and working with Principal Artists to create equivalencies between Essence Engine and this new engine;

• Environment Artist at Blackbird Interactive

  Vancouver, Canada

  April 2021 - Present

  Working on an unannounced project, I am responsible for:
  
  * Establishing the visual style of the environment to match the art direction
  
  * Leveraging technical knowledge to optimize assets and materials while ensuring they still fit the quality benchmark
  
  * Setting the quality benchmark for environment assets and documenting techniques and workflows for the team
  
  * Creating and maintaining a library of materials and assets, integrating and testing them in engine
  
  * Prototyping and polishing levels, working alongside the art director to define scale, camera and gameplay features

• 2D/3D Artist at Gameloft

  Toronto, Canada

  June 2020 - April 2021

  Created 2D layouts, polished illustrations, 3D backgrounds, models and hand-painted textures, as well as motion graphic videos for social media ads that featured the games Lego Legacy: Heroes Unboxed, Disney Magic Kingdoms and Dragonmania Legends. Brainstormed ideas and features for new Gameloft game releases, providing concept art services such as material call-outs, turnarounds, environment, and character designs.
  
  Worked under an Agile environment that used Confluence, JIRA and Tortoise SVN. Familiar with version control workflows. Achieved a high level of asset output, often clearing out weekly tasks before their deadline.

• Freelancer Concept Artist/Illustrator at Freelancer

  January 2013 - Present

  * Illustrations for various games including video games and Trading Card Games;
  
  * Character Design and Ideation;
  
  * Private commissions.
  
  * CLIENTS: Alderac Entertainment Group, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Cryptozoic Entertainment, Green Ronin Publishing, Fantasy Flight Games.

• Illustrator at Fantasy Flight Games

  January 2018 - August 2019

  Illustrated several cards for their Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones TCGs.

• Lead Concept Artist at Young Mind Studio

  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  May 2014 - Present

  I guide a team of developers think asset creation and visual style to best fit the technological restrictions of our engine. I also plan out the technical details of props, characters and environments. I do production paintings to sell the team's view for publishers and investors. I research new pipelines for our 3D modelers and texture artists. I have done storyboard production, visual planning and storytelling for the games OLOGON: Edlen's Wrath (Greenlit on Steam/PC), Bushido (on-going/PC), Obsessive Climber Dude (released/mobile) and Zombie Town(released/mobile).

• 2D Artist at Vanguarda Games

  January 2011 - January 2014

  * Layout production of props, characters and environments for the game Lich Project
  
  (unreleased) and Arena Shooter (unreleased);
  
  * Model sheet, production painting creation;
  
  * Art Direction and guidance of the art team.