FancyDonkey

Professional Experience

10/2020 - Present     FX Art Lead

Epic Games

Games: Fortnite

8/2019 - 10/2020     Advanced Artist VFX

Monolith - Kirkland, WA

Games: Unannounced title

• Combat and character visuals

• Work closely with art direction in conceptualizing visual style for unannounced project

  Cross-team communication and collaboration (design, art direction, production, leadership, test)

• Real-time VFX with proprietary system

5/2017 - 8/2019     Senior Artist VFX

Bungie - Bellevue, WA

Games: Destiny 2 (D2, Foresaken, Last Wish Raid, Scourge of the Past Raid, Joker’s Wild, Season of the Drifter, Season of Opulence)

• VFX Lead - Vanguard team (Seasons content)

• Manage reports

• Cross-team communication and collaboration (design, art direction, production, leadership, test)

• Scheduling and work prioritization (TFS)

• Real-time VFX with proprietary system

• Mentoring and training

5/2016 - 5/2017     Senior Artist VFX

Monolith - Kirkland, WA

Games: Middle-Earth: Shadow of War

• Primary owner of combat visuals

• Real-time VFX with proprietary system

• Mentoring and training

1/2015 - 3/2016     Senior Artist VFX-UI/UX

5th Cell - Bellevue, WA

Games: Unreleased 3rd person, open-world game; unreleased FTP mobile game

• Real-time VFX with proprietary system

• Production process guidelines and documentation

• Primary ownership of UI/UX of mobile F2P project

• Mentoring and training

1/2003 - 8/2014     Senior VFX Artist

Sucker Punch Productions - Bellevue, WA

Games: Infamous: First Light; Infamous: Second Son; Infamous: Festival of Blood; Infamous 2; Infamous 1; Sly Cooper 1, 2, 3

• Primary ownership of Enemy powers suite (Infamous: Second Son / First Light)

• Primary ownership of destruction system: design, technical guidelines, asset implementation and tracking

• Primary ownership of Hero powers (Infamous 1 & 2)

• Manage scheduling, goal setting, process and priority breakdowns

• Primary ownership of UI/UX (Infamous 1 & 2)

• Real-time VFX using proprietary expression-based particle system

• Mentoring and training