Mark Skelton: September 2010

This is based off of a Greek statue of Homer...http://cc.oulu.fi/~yseppa/pages/page3_1.html

This is a loose torso study I did for fun.

Creature face I call 'Derp'.

Resume

Mark Skelton

mark_skelton@yahoo.com

Experience (21 years)

06/16 Bluepoint Games Austin, TX

Art Director

01/13 - 06/16 Cloud Imperium Austin, TX
Art Director
-Heading up Art Direction on the Persistent Universe.

-Unifying styles and visual consistency for the many Planet

side locations and environments.

-Work with design to unify vision.

-Mentoring new artists.

-Manage Art team.

-Improve pipeline and workflow for the benefit of the team and company.

08/09 - 10/12 Lightbox Interactive Austin, TX
Lead Artist
-Creation of hi and low rez environment models and normal maps for realtime engine.
-Training new hires and giving tutorials for new processes and new software.
-Scheduling art tasks and time estimates.

09/06 – 05/09 3D Realms
Garland, TX
Senior Modeler / Texture Artist
- Creating high-rez models and normal maps for use with realtime low-rez game art.
- Training new hires and giving tutorials for new processes and new software.

08/05 - 09/06 Obsidian Entertainment Santa Ana, CA
Senior Modeler / Texture Artist
- Creating high-rez models and normal maps for use with realtime low-rez game art.
- Training new hires and giving tutorials for new processes and new software.

03/05 - 08/05 Ray Gun Studios
Long Beach,CA
Visual Development Supervisor / Head of Production
- Managed entire VFX department.
- Created styles and techniques to improve professionalism of the company.
- Created CG pipeline from the ground up.
- Hired and reviewed artists.
- Trained new hires and gave tutorials for new processes and new software.

11/03 - 01/05 Luma Pictures
Santa Monica,CA
Lead Modeler / Texture Artist
- Managed organic creature modeling / texture department.
- Lead the team in improvements to modeling and texture processes.
-General pipeline problem solving.
- Art directed and addressed technical issues with the newer artists.
- Trained new hires and gave tutorials for new processes and new software.

03/98 - 10/03 Blizzard Entertainment
Irvine, CA
Lead Modeler / Texture Artist
- Lead Modeler / Texture Artist in the Cinematics department.
- Helped streamline modeling and texture processes as well as invent new and
more productive ways to build, texture and design.
-General pipeline problem solving.
- Created a modeling assets library to assist modelers in achieving a faster higher
quality workflow.
- Animated and Composited shots

03/95 -01/98 7th Level
Richardson, TX
Associate Director of 3D Art
- Art Directed and helped manage a 3d art group.
- Help set up a workflow pipeline.

12/94 -03/95 Distant Thunder
Dallas, TX
3D Artist / Generalist
- Learned valuable techniques for modeling and texturing.

03/92 - 12/94 Freelance Long Beach,CA
Freelance Illustrator
- Layout and illustration work for advertising.

Education

7/93 - 3/95 Art Institute of Dallas Dallas, TX
- A.A. Computer Animation and Computer Science.
- Perfect attendance

Credits

Into The Blue (movie)
The Cave (movie)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (movie)
When Zombies Attack (pilot)
World of Warcraft (game)
Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne (game)
Warcraft 3 : Reign of Chaos (game)
Diablo 2 (game)
Dominion: Storm over Gift 3 (game)
Return to Krondor (game)
StarCraft: Brood War (game)
G-nome (game)
Never Winter Nights 2 (game)
Duke Nukem Forever (game)
Starhawk(game)

Links

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1720992/

http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,8903/

http://www.g4tv.com/videos/57994/starhawk-lead-artist-mark-skelton/

Monday, September 13, 2010

Studies