Key Responsibilities:

• The sole Technical Artist responsible for processing all art assets for the game.

  • Error checking all 3D geometry for unintentional vertex/poly overlap and redundancies that would affect rendering performance

  • Error checking all UV mapping and texture use for inaccuracies and performance issues

  • Laying out art guidelines for best practices and performance based art processes

  • Directed texture memory usage based on restrictions laid out by engineering and how art could optimize their creations including palette bit depths and resolutions

  • Worked with EA’s Tools & Libraries team for custom macros/tools to be added to artist’s installations of 3DS Max and Maya

  • Created MEL scripts that allowed artists to catch issues early on

  • Created command line batch scripts for texture video memory map layouts that would automate the creation of texture sheets for the various shipping platforms

  • Was able to automate a large chunk of data processing that allowed full art packages to be delivered to engineering as fast as a PC could perform the operation

  • Encoding of all video assets including the ever present “EA Sports, it’s in the game!” bumper

  • Off project experimentation with the Studio Technical Artist in render farm rendering capabilities throughout the studio.