Experience

• Senior Expert Character Artist at Elsewhere | Activision

  Frankfurt, DE

  September 2024 - Present

• Lead Character Artist at Cloud Imperium Games

  Frankfurt, DE

  June 2023 - September 2024

  Projects
  
  • Squadron 42

  General Responsibilities
  
  • Define and implement the artistic vision for character design in collaboration with the Art Director and other stakeholders
  
  • Lead and inspire a team of character artists, providing guidance and mentorship to foster skill development and creativity while coordinating and prioritizing tasks within the team to meet project deadlines
  
  • Oversee the entire character design pipeline, ensuring consistency and quality across all aspects of character creation, from concept to implementation in-game
  
  • Collaborate closely with Art Directors, Tech Leads, and other departments to align character design with the overall artistic and technical goals of the project
  
  • Stay abreast of industry trends and advancements in character design and technology to implement cutting-edge techniques and maintain a high level of technical proficiency
  
  • Provide training and development opportunities for team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement
  
  • Implement and maintain quality control processes to ensure that character assets meet the highest standards of visual and technical excellence
  
  • Communicate effectively with cross-functional teams, translating artistic vision into actionable tasks and ensuring a smooth workflow
  
  • Identify and address artistic and technical challenges, finding innovative solutions to push the boundaries of character design within project constraints
  
  • Oversee and provide guidance on outsourced character art, ensuring it aligns with the project's artistic direction and meets quality standards
  
  • Develop and maintain documentation for character art pipelines, tools, and best practices

• Senior Character Artist at Cloud Imperium Games

  Manchester

  August 2020 - June 2023

  Held this postion in both Manchester and Frankfurt

  Projects
  
  • Squadron 42
  
  • Star Citizen

  General Responsibilities
  
  • Work alongside the Character Art Director and Tech Lead to oversee the creation of high-quality character designs and ensure they meet the technical and artistic benchmarks set out.
  
  • Supervising and mentoring artists within the team across multiple studios during their daily tasks while being a point of knowledge and information, keep them motivated and push their skills to the next level.
  
  • Mentored and trained an entire new team, ranging all levels from junior to lead, getting them accustomed to our pipelines, tools and quality standards
  
  • Work alongside Tech Art and Graphics to identify technical and visual restrictions while creating new solutions in order to push the quality of our assets
  
  • Responsible for heads and bodies (including wrinklemaps)
  
  • Creation of full characters as well as modular outfits (with high focus on Marvelous Designer) which act as a visual benchmark according to our specification. From high-poly sculpt to textured in-game asset
  
  • Monitor quality of outsourced assets to ensure technical and artistic quality as well as writing tutorials for training and prepare their packages

• Senior Character Artist at Cyborn

  Antwerp

  September 2019 - July 2020

  Projects
  
  • Hubris VR

  General Responsibilities
  
  • Concepting and creation of high quality characters for VR

• Character Artist at Ubisoft Bordeaux

  Bordeaux

  November 2018 - September 2019

  Projects
  
  • Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon - Breakpoint

  General Responsibilities
  
  • Creation of main-characters as well as playable gear and civilian outfits
  
  ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀- High poly sculpting
  
  ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀- Low poly with UV's
  
  ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀- Baking, texturing & material creation
  
  ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀- Detail: stich, sweat, dirt & aging maps

  • Head scan cleanup and characterization (main, player & NPC) with integration into Anvil Engine
  
  • Template creation for head texturing pipeline with Substance Painter
  
  • Skinning & Motion Cloth with provided Ubisoft tools
  
  • Mentor Juniors & quality assurance

• Character Artist at Avalanche Studios

  Stockholm

  August 2017 - November 2018

  Projects
  
  • RAGE 2
  
  • Just Cause 4 - Dare Devils DLC

  General Responsibilities
  
  • Build of Avalanche's in-house photogrammetry rig
  
  • Responsible for scanning, scan cleanup and photogrammetry pipeline
  
  • Responsible for heads and bodies (including main-characters with wrinklemaps)
  
  • Creation of characters and creatures
  
  ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀- High poly sculpting
  
  ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀- Low poly with UV's
  
  ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀- Baking, texturing & material creation
  
  ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀- Engine: Paperdoll system setup
  
  ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀- Engine: Armor system setup
  
  ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀- Engine: Gibbing setup and modeling of different gib-parts

  • Give feedback on outsourcing material
  
  • Write tutorials and prepare packages for outsourcing
  
  • Mentor Interns/Juniors

• Junior Character Artist at Avalanche Studios

  Stockholm

  April 2016 - August 2017

  Projects
  
  • RAGE 2
  
  • TheHunter - Call of the Wild
  
  • TheHunter - Call of the Wild - Medved Taiga DLC

  General Responsibilities
  
  • Responsible for all animals in TheHunter - Call of the Wild & Medved Taiga DLC
  
  ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀- modelling both high and low poly with uv's
  
  ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀- creating different texture variations with unique patterns
  
  ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀- creating multiple antler variations to be spawned randomly
  
  ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀- creation of different maps to drive our in-house fur shader
  
  ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀- setting up entities & tweaking everything for the engine

  • Responsible for some parts of the hunter characters in TheHunter - Call of the Wild
  
  ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀- different ethnicity variations for both male & female
  
  ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀- creating multiple outfit variations

• Character Art Supervisor at Think Tank Training Centre

  Vancouver, CA

  June 2021 - October 2022

  Supervising students throughout their term, with weekly live sessions and recorded personal feedback on their weekly assignments.

  Responsible for providing extra support on 3D modelling and texturing for the students attending their mentorship program.

• Character Art Instructor at Visual Magic Education

  Skellefteå, SE

  November 2021 - December 2021

  • Instructor for self-made course 'Character Art for Games'

• Character Art Instructor / Mentor at Forsbergs Skola

  Stockholm

  April 2017 - November 2018

  • Instructor for self-made course 'zBrush Basics'
  
  • Instructor for self-made course 'Character Art for Games'
  
  • Instructor for self-made course 'Character Pipeline for Games' in collaboration with
  
  Robert Pettersson as animation-instructor
  
  • Mentoring students during summer-projects