Experience

• Lead Artist at Singer Studios

  London, GB

  March 2022 - March 2024

  Leading a team of artists to build ‘The Pirate Queen’, an immersive VR narrative experience for the Oculus Quest hardware, based on the award-winning demo (also released on Steam for PCVR).
  
  As head of Art Department, I liaised with the stakeholders and writers to define the visual design and art-direction of the game. I created art-bibles, mood boards, research documents and concept art to communicate our visual goals to the rest of the team in early development.
  
  I was responsible for handling task allocation and scheduling and feedback for the art team, whilst communicating with production and stakeholders. I was also a key hands-on artist: modelling, texturing, creating VFX, shaders and blueprints and working in-engine.
  
  On this project I emphasised modular environment creation and optimisation. I designed efficient master shaders and functions and was further responsible for other optimisations such as LoDs, culling volumes and custom collisions.

• Tutor at Escape Studios

  London, GB

  September 2020 - May 2022

  Lecturer for the 3rd year of ‘The Art of Video Games’ undergraduate course, guiding students through large scale environment art projects, teaching technical skills, and providing art-direction and feedback.
  
  Pastoral role providing 1-on-1 feedback to students during their specialism module, portfolio development and job applications.
  
  Previously I designed and taught the 1st year ‘Game Art Core’ undergraduate module, which introduced students to the game-art pipeline, covering asset creation in Maya, Substance
  
  Painter and Unreal Engine.