Art Lead & Animator at Journey to Arduous Star

Led a team of 18 artists in creating an isometric hack n’ slash game in Godot 4. Guided team in creating 12 enemy creature models, rigs, and animations. Rigged and animated 3 player character models with a full set of attack, combo, and traversal animations.

3D Art Sub Lead at Altarune

Led a team of 14 artists throughout the development of a desert-themed tower-defense game. Rigged and animated main character run cycle and attack using Blender’s Rigify plugin. Coordinated with design, programming, and tech art leads to establish requirements for the 3D assets for environments, towers, and enemies. Increased number of feature-complete assets by 30% in comparison to initial scope. Distributed tasks for 14 artists using Taiga and conducted weekly meetings to give feedback on 3D assets.

Visual Arts Team Lead at Bonbon

Led a team of 30+ developers to create a sweets-themed RPG with Georgia Tech’s Videogame Development Club. Wrote documentation, style guides, and pipeline diagrams to shape the development and pipeline for games visuals in pursuit of a fantasy painterly style. Increased team productivity by conducting weekly meetings to distribute new tasks via Trello and get updates on outgoing tasks. Performed weekly environment and enemy asset reviews and gave feedback/critique on enemy and environment models to decrease vertex count by 20% while retaining model fidelity. Modeled, sculpted, and rigged the 2 player characters and 5 enemy characters. Utilized vertex painting along with custom UV unwrapping to support the interior outline style used by Guilty Gear XRD. Utilized a pose-to-pose workflow to animate stylized attack and idle animations for 2 characters and 5 enemies using hybrid FK + IK rigs in Maya. Collaborated with tech artists and riggers to create timed animations for scripted attack

Visual Development Intern at Ghost Gaming

Collaborated with a team of 3 to create PvP experiences in UEFN. Designed visually appealing 12 unique combat scenarios using UEFN's built-in tools. Modeled and animated several stylized fish, coral, and a giant squid in Blender. Replicated the feeling of being underwater via post-processing and compositing to improve audience retention by 40%.