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J.D. Posey

Environment Artist

318-464-5113 |jdposey@jdpoz.com |jdpoz.com |linkedin.com/jdpoz

Primary Skills

3D Modeling / Texturing	Animation	Game Engine
hi-poly / low-poly modeling procedural and hand-painted texturing environmental modeling/texturing high-polygon to low-polygon normal map baking	eyframe character animation character rigging Flash 2D animation	aterial shader development in UDK Asset import into UDK and Unity Level building in UDK and Unity

 

       Additional Skills

• 2D digital and traditional drawing/painting
• Character modeling/texturing
• Concept, design, and art documentation

Software Experience

3DS Max 2010 Audacity 1.3.11 BodyPaint 3D 4.5 Crazybump 1.101 Final Cut Pro 7 Flash CS4 Garageband ‘09 Illustrator CS4 iMovie ‘09 InDesign CS4

Issue Manager 3.0 MS Office 2007 Mac OS Maya 2010 Mental Mill Meshlab 1.2.2 Motion 4 Mudbox 2010 Photoshop CS4 Reason 4

Sketchup 7 Soundtrack Pro 3 Substance Air Torque X Tortoise SVN Unreal Development Kit UT3 Editor Unity 2.6.1 Vegas Pro 9 ZBrush 3.5

Education

The Guildhall at SMU | Plano, TX
Master’s in Interactive Technology | Specialization in Art Creation
January 2009 – May 2010

• GPA 3.8
• First team game project, Rock ‘N Rumble, won best character art

Louisiana Tech University | Ruston, LA
Bachelor’s in Liberal Arts | Concentration on Graphic Design
August 2002 – November 2006

• GPA 3.2
• Received full tuition in scholarships for high ACT test score (28) and good high school GPA (3.6)
• Received additional scholarships for 4-year participation as a trombonist for marching band, hoop troop, and symphonic orchestra

Game Development Experience

Hell's Belle | Unreal Development Kit
Team Game Project
13 team members
Total development time : January 2010 – May 2010

• Lead Animator – animated all motions for main character along with all other character animations
• Concepted, modeled and fully textured various environment assets, including a hi-poly sculpt of most assets, normal, diffuse, spec, ambient occlusion, alpha, and emissive maps

 

Colossal Takeover | Unreal Tournament 3 Editor
Team Game Project
8 team members
Total development time : October 2009 – December 2009

• 2D / 3D Artist and Graphic Designer
• Concepted, modeled, fully textured (normal, diffuse, specular, emissive and alpha maps), rigged, and animated many assets including all weapons and the key NPC, a giant quadrupedal robot character
• Designed Sexual Tyrannosaurus team logo, complete with animation and sound
• Designed box and disc art for final product
• Contributed to level design team with game play concepts and design

Mary’s Demons | Unity 2.6.1
Team Game Project
4 artists only (no level designers / programmers)
Total development time : January 2010 – February 2010

• 3D Artist and Audio Engineer
• Concepted, modeled, unwrapped, fully textured (normal, diffuse, specular, emissive and alpha maps).
• Composed all music, ambience, and sound effects for game
• Contributed to level design team with game play concepts and design

 

Rock 'N Rumble | Torque X Editor
Team Game Project
2 team members
Total development time : April 2009 – March 2009

• First two-person project in history of the school to make exhibition without cancellation or additional staff
• Winner of best character art overall
• 2D Artist and Graphic Designer
• Concepted, textured and animated all assets
• Designed Karma Jolt Team logo
• Designed box and disc art for final product
• Created trailer for game

Additional Work Experience

Custom Printed Products | Printing Press Company
Graphic Designer / Pre-press Artist
November 2006 – December 2008

• Created and / or prepared label designs by adding printing-press enhancements such as bleed and trap for product labels to be printed in mass quantity
• Left job to pursue education toward career in game art development

Bill Jones Portrait Design | Digital Photography Studio
Digital retouching artist, advertisement designer, video editor, marketing director
June 2006 – December 2006

• Digitally retouched photos, edited video for advertisements, produced mailers for company promos
• Completely revamped website

Other Awards & Merits

• Computer technician & editorial cartoonist for high school newspaper
• Illustration featured on the cover page of the local section of the newspaper, The Shreveport Times
• Created illustration which won second place overall in the state high school newspaper competition
• Was involved in several high school extracurricular groups such as the Airline Viking Vanguard Band, BETA Club, National Honors Society, AIM gifted students program
• Designed and assisted in designing numerous extra-curricular clubs shirts, such as the Tau Beta Sigma
• sorority 2005 Ark-La-Tex shirt and the Louisiana Tech University trombone section shirt for 3 of 4 years attendance
• Attended community college classes for free as part of an exclusive gifted student program during high school
• Highly proficient in all Apple OS platform devices (primary OS on personal computer since OS version 7.1