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I’m a highly skilled 3D Environment Artist with over five years of experience in the gaming industry, creating immersive, story-driven worlds. I’ve contributed to multiple successful projects, including recent work on Reach at N Dreams and Fix Force, Dead Take, and Tales of K enzera: ZAU with Surgent Studios. I bring strong technical know-how and artistic finesse to build environments that match an established art style while staying optimized for performance requirements. I’m proficient with industry-standard tools such as Autodesk Maya, Substance, ZBrush, Unreal Engine, and Unity, and I enjoy collaborating closely with art directors, designers, and developers to deliver polished results. I also care about continuous improvement—whether that’s learning new workflows, refining environment art pipelines, or ensuring assets and levels are production-ready. I’ve worked across environment creation, asset/material creation, level-building and optimization, and VR/AR experiences with small teams through to larger production environments.…I’m a highly skilled 3D Environment Artist with over five years of experience in the gaming industry, creating immersive, story-driven worlds. I’ve contributed to multiple successful projects, including recent work on Reach at N Dreams and Fix Force, Dead Take, and Tales of K enzera: ZAU with Surgent Studios. I bring strong technical know-how and artistic finesse to build environments that match an established art style while staying optimized for performance requirements. I’m proficient with industry-standard tools such as Autodesk Maya, Substance, ZBrush, Unreal Engine, and Unity, and I enjoy collaborating closely with art directors, designers, and developers to deliver polished results. I also care about continuous improvement—whether that’s learning new workflows, refining environment art pipelines, or ensuring assets and levels are production-ready. I’ve worked across environment creation, asset/material creation, level-building and optimization, and VR/AR experiences with small teams through to larger production environments.

Joe Phillpot

3D Designer, 3D Modeler, Concept Artist, +2

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I’m a highly skilled 3D Environment Artist with over five years of experience in the gaming industry, creating immersive, story-driven worlds. I’ve contributed to multiple successful projects, including recent work on Reach at N Dreams and Fix Force, Dead Take, and Tales of K enzera: ZAU with Surgent Studios. I bring strong technical know-how and artistic finesse to build environments that match an established art style while staying optimized for performance requirements. I’m proficient with industry-standard tools such as Autodesk Maya, Substance, ZBrush, Unreal Engine, and Unity, and I enjoy collaborating closely with art directors, designers, and developers to deliver polished results. I also care about continuous improvement—whether that’s learning new workflows, refining environment art pipelines, or ensuring assets and levels are production-ready. I’ve worked across environment creation, asset/material creation, level-building and optimization, and VR/AR experiences with small teams through to larger production environments.…I’m a highly skilled 3D Environment Artist with over five years of experience in the gaming industry, creating immersive, story-driven worlds. I’ve contributed to multiple successful projects, including recent work on Reach at N Dreams and Fix Force, Dead Take, and Tales of K enzera: ZAU with Surgent Studios. I bring strong technical know-how and artistic finesse to build environments that match an established art style while staying optimized for performance requirements. I’m proficient with industry-standard tools such as Autodesk Maya, Substance, ZBrush, Unreal Engine, and Unity, and I enjoy collaborating closely with art directors, designers, and developers to deliver polished results. I also care about continuous improvement—whether that’s learning new workflows, refining environment art pipelines, or ensuring assets and levels are production-ready. I’ve worked across environment creation, asset/material creation, level-building and optimization, and VR/AR experiences with small teams through to larger production environments.

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I’m a highly skilled 3D Environment Artist with over five years of experience in the gaming industry, creating immersive, story-driven worlds. I’ve contributed to multiple successful projects, including recent work on Reach at N Dreams and Fix Force, Dead Take, and Tales of K enzera: ZAU with Surgent Studios. I bring strong technical know-how and artistic finesse to build environments that match an established art style while staying optimized for performance requirements.

I’m proficient with industry-standard tools such as Autodesk Maya, Substance, ZBrush, Unreal Engine, and Unity, and I enjoy collaborating closely with art directors, designers, and developers to deliver polished results. I also care about continuous improvement—whether that’s learning new workflows, refining environment art pipelines, or ensuring assets and levels are production-ready. I’ve worked across environment creation, asset/material creation, level-building and optimization, and VR/AR experiences with small teams through to larger production environments.

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Work Experience

3D Environment Artist at Surgent Studios

August 1, 2024 - Present

Developed and released BAFTA award-winning Tales of K enzera: ZAU (EA Originals) for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, PC, and Nintendo Switch. Created 3D assets and materials matching existing game art style, built out levels focused on immersive, story-driven environments, and optimized levels and assets to meet hardware requirements. Worked with pipelines and tools suitable for production delivery while contributing to collaborative environment creation efforts. (Included projects: Dead Take, Fix Force.)

Freelance 3D Environment Artist at Freelance

August 1, 2024 - Present

Collaborated with international teams using Unreal Engine and Unity to refine and ship VR/interactive projects. Notable clients include Surgent Studios (Dead Take, Fix Force), Shifty Eye Games, and nDreams Elevation (Reach).

Junior 3D Environment Artist at Holovis International

January 1, 2023 - April 1, 2023

Worked with multiple large-scale international bands including Universal, SeaWorld, and Norwegian Cruise Line to create interactive experiences for commercial VR game projects. Served as a solo environment artist across VR game projects and collaborated within a talented team to bring a park-wide interactive experience to SeaWorld Abu Dhabi, contributing across multiple individual games and interactive installations.

3D Environment Artist at Figment Productions

January 1, 2023 - April 1, 2023

Created unique and interesting VR/AR experiences for attraction locations worldwide. Worked closely with the Art Director to lead a small team and guide multiple projects to completion. Collaborated with designers and developers to optimize environments and ensure smooth performance on limited VR/AR hardware.

3D Environment Artist at Surgent Studios

May 1, 2020 - December 1, 2022

Contributed to VR/interactive experiences for high-profile brands, including Universal, SeaWorld, and Norwegian Cruise Lines. Led environment art on multiple VR projects and collaborated with a cross-disciplinary team to deliver 13 park-wide interactive games and experiences for SeaWorld Abu Dhabi.