Joe Bush - Environmental Artist

Skills

Tools

Engines/Editors

Game Projects

Hell’s Belle (Unreal Developer Kit)

Game Designer and General Artist
Hell’s Belle is a 2.5D side-scrolling platformer with a unique sense of humor and exciting powers.
Team size: 5 Artists, 6 Level Designers, 1 Programmer, 1 Producer
December 2009 – Present
Designed core mechanics
Upheld style and theme of the game
Informed team members of design decisions
Produced concept art, model sheets, assets, and shaders
Tested gameplay frequently
Wrote extensive game documentation

Mary’s Demons

Programmer and Artist
Mary’s Demons is a third-person psychological thriller game set in a sanitarium and featuring bouts of player insanity.
Team size: 4 Artists/scripters January 2010 – Present
Coded gameplay in Unity using Javascript
Designed overall level layout
Created assets and characters

Hyp3r

Solo Game Project
Hyp3r is a frenetic science fiction shooter pitting the player against a host of enemy formations.
November 2009 – January 2010
Coded gameplay in Unity using Javascript
Crafted custom art assets and models
Designed particle systems for effects
Built collision-based damage system and weapons
Created formations of enemies for rapid level design

Clickit

Solo Game Project
Clickit is a simple timed collection game created for the purpose of learning scripting.
September 2009 – November 2009
Started Clickit to learn Javascript programming/scripting
Explored concepts of basic game construction

Starshade Valley

Lead Artist
Starshade Valley is first-person game demo set in a wild-west future on a distant planet where players take on vast hordes of antimatter monsters.
Team size: 2 Artists, 4 Level Designers, 1 Programmer
June 2009 – October 2009
Managed a small team of artists
Produced concept art, model sheets, assets, and shaders
Crafted asset-specific shaders
Checked in team member's assets
Package organization
Team workflow in Unreal 3
Wrote art documentation

Devour (Torque Game Builder)

Education

The Guildhall at Southern Methodist University

January 2009 – Present

Earning a Master in Interactive Technology with a specialization in Art Creation

Awarded the D3Publisher Shane Hensley Scholarship for Game Development Excellence

University of Wisconsin Stevens Point

2003 - 2008

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Two Dimensional Art

Awarded a Grant for continuing study in Digital Art

Study Abroad in Greece

Internship at Integrated Communications Ltd. in London

Three years of Leadership in Gamers Anonymous of Stevens Point

Work

LeBouton Photography

Backdrop Painter 2008

Painted large scale photographic backgrounds for portrait and full photography, mainly abstract acrylic scenes and designs.

Dollar Tree

Seasonal Associate

October 2008 - December 2008

Worked as a sales associate and freight-person to build up savings to pursue my dream of making games

Integrated Communications Ltd.

Internship June 2006 - July 2006 Manipulated images

Executed basic graphic design mockups and posters

Set up Mr. Horton’s new Mac lab in the new office

http://JoeBush3d.com

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