Experience

Distinctive Developments

• United Kingdom
• Computer Games
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Artist

  • May 2002 - Present

  Award winning titlesHockey Nations Powerplay for Windows 8, placed first in Microsoft's Power Up Game Apps Competition 2013.Hockey Nations 2010, Big Chip 2011 Game of the North winner.Recent titlesRugby Nations 18, Cricket Megastar, Rugby League 17, Dead Runner - Inner Evil, Patrick Kane's Winter Games, Rugby Nations 13, Football Kicks: Title Race, Rugby Nations 2011, Football Kicks, Hockey Nations 2011, Bonecruncher, Hockey Nations, Pool Ninja, Anytime Pool, EA Cricket 11.Key skillsMotion capture planning/implementation/processing; character design and rigging; character animations including mocap and key frame animation; 3D modelling and texturing for characters and environments; scripting using Max Script in 3DSMax and Python in MotionBuilder; lighting solutions including radiosity, vertex painting, lightmaps and ambient occlusion; photography and image processing; project planning and management.DetailArtist working with Unity, Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, MotionBuilder, Maya, Zbrush, Flash and in-house tools, to produce artwork for game concept documents, mobile phone/tablet/PC/Mac in-game and front end graphics and animation. Project planning and management using Hansoft and Perforce.



Distinctive Developments Ltd

• Console Games Developer

  • Jan 1998 - Jan 2001



Lightwork Design (now part of Siemens Industry Software)

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • 1994 - 1995



Sheffield Health Authority

• Assistant Computer Officer

  • Jan 1992 - Jan 1993

  the industrial placement component of my degree. My dutiesincluded organisation and day to day running of an authority wide help desk, receiving calls via'phone and e-mail, and preparation of IBM based patient data reports for the Sheffield area. the industrial placement component of my degree. My dutiesincluded organisation and day to day running of an authority wide help desk, receiving calls via'phone and e-mail, and preparation of IBM based patient data reports for the Sheffield area.