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I am a Lead Artist and art director with extensive experience leading environment art teams for AAA and indie projects. I specialize in planning art pipelines, coordinating cross‑disciplinary teams, and delivering high‑quality terrain, buildings and concept art while keeping production on schedule. I thrive in client-facing settings, on-set work, and remote collaboration, always aiming to maintain team wellbeing and a clear path from concept to in‑game implementation. Over the years I have shipped and shaped titles across studios in the UK and Asia, working with Unreal, Substance, Maya and a range of production tools. My passion is turning creative vision into practical, scalable art pipelines that support fast iteration and consistent visuals across platforms.…I am a Lead Artist and art director with extensive experience leading environment art teams for AAA and indie projects. I specialize in planning art pipelines, coordinating cross‑disciplinary teams, and delivering high‑quality terrain, buildings and concept art while keeping production on schedule. I thrive in client-facing settings, on-set work, and remote collaboration, always aiming to maintain team wellbeing and a clear path from concept to in‑game implementation. Over the years I have shipped and shaped titles across studios in the UK and Asia, working with Unreal, Substance, Maya and a range of production tools. My passion is turning creative vision into practical, scalable art pipelines that support fast iteration and consistent visuals across platforms.

Mark Wilks

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I am a Lead Artist and art director with extensive experience leading environment art teams for AAA and indie projects. I specialize in planning art pipelines, coordinating cross‑disciplinary teams, and delivering high‑quality terrain, buildings and concept art while keeping production on schedule. I thrive in client-facing settings, on-set work, and remote collaboration, always aiming to maintain team wellbeing and a clear path from concept to in‑game implementation. Over the years I have shipped and shaped titles across studios in the UK and Asia, working with Unreal, Substance, Maya and a range of production tools. My passion is turning creative vision into practical, scalable art pipelines that support fast iteration and consistent visuals across platforms.…I am a Lead Artist and art director with extensive experience leading environment art teams for AAA and indie projects. I specialize in planning art pipelines, coordinating cross‑disciplinary teams, and delivering high‑quality terrain, buildings and concept art while keeping production on schedule. I thrive in client-facing settings, on-set work, and remote collaboration, always aiming to maintain team wellbeing and a clear path from concept to in‑game implementation. Over the years I have shipped and shaped titles across studios in the UK and Asia, working with Unreal, Substance, Maya and a range of production tools. My passion is turning creative vision into practical, scalable art pipelines that support fast iteration and consistent visuals across platforms.

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I am a Lead Artist and art director with extensive experience leading environment art teams for AAA and indie projects. I specialize in planning art pipelines, coordinating cross‑disciplinary teams, and delivering high‑quality terrain, buildings and concept art while keeping production on schedule. I thrive in client-facing settings, on-set work, and remote collaboration, always aiming to maintain team wellbeing and a clear path from concept to in‑game implementation.

Over the years I have shipped and shaped titles across studios in the UK and Asia, working with Unreal, Substance, Maya and a range of production tools. My passion is turning creative vision into practical, scalable art pipelines that support fast iteration and consistent visuals across platforms.

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Work Experience

Senior Environment Artist at Reflections Interactive

February 28, 2006 - September 14, 2025

Built buildings, vehicles, terrain and general environment; level creation; collaborated with mission scripters, programmers and junior team members; credits include Stuntman PS2, Stuntman 2 PS2, Driver PS2, Driver Parallel Lines PS2, Enter the Matrix PS2; worked on the Matrix project in Orange County for three months.

Senior Environmental Artist at Midway Games

February 28, 2006 - September 14, 2025

Wheelman PS3/360 using Unreal Engine; environment assets; buildings; general environment and asset production.

Senior Environmental Artist at 3D Creation Studio

February 28, 2007 - September 14, 2025

Worked on titles for Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii; produced environment assets and supported other disciplines including characters and vehicles; involved in outsourcing workflows.

Environmental Specialist / Level Designer at THQ

June 1, 2011 - September 14, 2025

Environment specialist; level and feature design; environment and vehicle animations; contributed to planned retail and digital releases.

Environment Artist at RealTimeUK

September 1, 2014 - September 14, 2025

Worked on trailers for clients such as EA, Sony and Wargaming; built assets from white box using ZBrush, Quixel or Mari; handed work to Render team; projects featured at E3.

Lead Artist / Art Director at Magellan Robotech

July 1, 2020 - September 14, 2025

Lead artist and Art Director for online team; mentoring, assigning work; responsible for original concepts and ideas for new games; oversight from concept to final product; experience with multiple game genres.

Senior Environment Artist at Avalanche Studios Group

August 1, 2021 - September 14, 2025

Senior Environment Artist on Call of the Wild: The Angler; built props and environment assets (watermills, mine areas, buildings, log cabins, social hubs); level blockout; reviews and documentation; MegaScan assets; Substance Designer/Painter; terrain setup; modular asset kits; sprint planning.

Lead Environment Artist / Outsource Lead at Ballistic Moon

April 1, 2022 - September 14, 2025

Oversee team workflow and planning; daily meetings; set goals; manage skill levels; asset upgrades; mentoring and reviewing artists; on-site and remote collaboration; outsourcing to another studio; sprint planning; shader work with tech artist; maintain art pipeline; liaison with art director; team wellbeing.

Lead Artist / Unreal Supervisor at MPC

November 1, 2022 - September 14, 2025

Disney contract; lead artist / Unreal Supervisor; coordinating 11 artists remotely and on set; Unreal Engine; scanned data and Megascans; planning for 22 environments; on-set alignment of virtual backgrounds with real-world assets; art lead, direction on environments; planning; art pipeline; team wellbeing.

Lead Artist – Fallout 76 at Double11

November 1, 2022 - Present

Lead Artist on Fallout 76; manage a team of 12 artists; terrain, buildings and concept art; daily meetings and art reviews; coordinate in-game testing with client and art team; Jira task management; PDPs; workload planning; client-facing art review meetings; ensure quality and consistency.