Experience

• Environment Art Director at Pahdo Labs

  NYC | Remote, US

  April 2023 - Present

  Art direction for all things related to the game's anime environments.
  
  Special Challenge: The game will feature user generated content (UGC).

  Skills:
  
  Research and Development (R&D) · Level Art · Visdev · Godot · Visual Development · Art Direction · Optimization · Communication · Performance Motivation · Concept Development · Artistic Vision · Art Reviews · 3D Game Art · Blender · Concept Art · Game Asset Creation · 2D Game Art · Styleguides · Previsualization · Asset Production · Production Planning · Roadmaps · Project Management/Producing · Team Building

• Lead Environment Artist at Pahdo Labs

  Remote

  June 2021 - April 2023

• Lead Environment Artist at Max Heyder Art - Golden Skull

  Berlin, Germany

  February 2012 - Present

  Outsource Lead Environment Artist, Consultant and Art Director for various indie productions.
  
  My responsibilities:
  
  Ideation and pre-production, project scope and budget planning, styleguidelines and workflow definition, onboarding of new artists, outsourcing workflows, production oversight and review, production velocity management, asset production from concept to implementation into Unity and Godot.

• Lead Artist at Wargaming

  Berlin, Germany

  September 2020 - April 2021

  Lead Game Art and Team Lead

• Art Director & Lead Game Artist at Golden Skull Studios / MaxHeyderArt

  Berlin, Germany

  January 2012 - Present

  Self Founded Companies, Various Art for a multitude of Projects ranging from Concept Art to Game Art in 2D and 3D

• Art Director at Hordes.io

  Berlin, Germany

  January 2019 - February 2020

  Visdev and Asset creation for a browser MMO RPG.
  
  Strong focus on performance optimization, modularity and asset re-usability.

• Lead Game Artist at TreasureHunt

  Berlin

  January 2018 - February 2020

  Managing and Mentoring an Art Team of 3 Artists, 2D Concept Art, 3D Game Environment Assets & Character Meshes & Costumes, Unity Technical Art: Particle Fx, UI Layouts, Scene Management, Texture Painting, Managing and reviewing Outsourced Content, Ownership and Responsibility of Art Style and Consistency

• Lead Game Artist at 2AwesomeStudios

  January 2015 - January 2017

  Establishing the Art Style, Concepting and Production of 3D Art Assets, Implementation into Unity Engine, Level Environment Design and Optimization

• Unity Tech Artist (Prototyping & Development) at Zoobe Message Entertainment

  Berlin, Germany

  October 2017 - January 2017

  At Zoobe, I developed various prototypes with the Unity Engine for mobile.
  
  The prototypes included: AR, mobile VR, Video Recording, Character Customization, Android & iOS development.

• 3D Environment Art Intern at Visual Dart

  Seoul, Korea (South)

  March 2013 - July 2013

  During my time at Visual Dart, I have learned industry workflows for modeling and hand-painting textures.
  
  I had the great opportunity to work on various international titles including MULegend (http://mulegend.webzen.com/en/beta/teaser).