John Zwicker Resume

Senior 3D Artist

Overview

Experienced, hands-on, technical senior artist with 12+ years experience in 3D graphics, technical art and art design/direction, 10+ years in games. Strong ability to self-teach applications, transfer knowledge by training others, and help design tools. Clear communicator, organized, and dependable. Communicates well with other artists, designers, engineers, and management. Passionate about game design.

Summary of qualifications

Skills: Modeling, texturing, UV mapping, lighting, visual/post effects, object/camera animation, cinematics, physics setups.

Software: 3dsMax, Maya, Photoshop, Zbrush, Illustrator, After Effects, Digital Fusion, Unreal Engine 3, and Havok.

work experience

Luxoflux / Activision Blizzard – Los Angeles, CA March 2007-February 2010

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox360/PS3)

Senior Artist

Modeling, texturing, UV-layout, level layout, lighting, visual effects, object animation, backgrounds, object destruction with physics, collision, scripting, 3D UI elements.
Led artists on multiple levels. Worked closely with art director.
Helped develop tools, real-time shaders, and art techniques.
Worked closely with designers to help create levels.

Electronic Arts – Los Angeles, CA July 2002 – March 2007

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (Windows/Xbox360)

Additional Art Support

Modeling, texturing, UV-layout, object animation, visual effects.

Boom Blox (Wii)

Additional Art Support

Helped create and develop visual effects.

Medal of Honor: Vanguard (PS2/Wii)

Lead Technical Artist

Modeling, texturing, level-layout, UV-layout, lighting, visual effects, in-game cinematic, object and camera animation.

Central Technology Department

Technical Art Director

Helped develop tools, technology, and art techniques for Xbox360/PS3 for the Medal of Honor: Airborne team.

Medal of Honor: European Assault (PS2/Xbox/NGC)

Lead Technical Artist

Helped create look and feel for background environments. This included: modeling, texturing, UV-layout, lighting, particle effects, in-game cinematic, and working with physics controlled objects.
Worked on in-game cinematic and object animation.
Helped design tools for artists and designers by working directly with the engineering team.

Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (PS2/Xbox/NGC)

Background Artist

Modeling, texturing, level-layout, UV-layout, lighting, visual effects, in-game cinematic, object and camera animation.
Trained new people
Helped with tools research and development

Medal of Honor: Frontline PS2/Xbox/NGC

Background artist

Modeling, texturing, level-layout, design, lighting for multiplayer levels.

Encore Visual Effects – Los Angeles, CA June 2002-July 2003

Visual Effects Artist

Created and animated 3d character and objects models to match live action footage for various television shows and films.
Shader authoring, rendering, lighting and compositing.

NueArt Pictures – Los Angeles, CA June 1999-June 2003

3D Artist

Created models, textures, lighting, visual effects, object and character animation, plus compositing for "AeroTroopers" an independent animated film.

Interactive Magic – Raleigh, NC June 1997-May 1999

3D Artist

Object modeler, texturing, and animation for multiple flight simulators, also created opening cinematic movies.

Education

School of Communication Arts in Computer Graphics and Animation, Raleigh, NC.

special skills

My primary strengths are modeling, texturing, and special effects. I have managed and created entire levels, to vehicles, to props, to collision setups, all built with quality and optimized for best performance with speed. I have done a lot of static environment lighting and dynamic object lighting. Created many physics controlled objects and complex object animations including baked simulations in 3dsMax and in Maya. I am eager to learn new technology and mentor people around me. I work well with large and small teams. I get to know my co-workers as friends. I am an avid gamer from consoles to PC games in all categories.

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