Experience

• Creative Director at Antistatic Studios

  Montreal

  August 2021 - Present

  Game Direction

• Lead Environment Artist at Cloud Chamber

  Montreal, QC, Canada

  December 2020 - July 2021

  Working on the new Bioshock title.

• Principal Environment Artist at Cloud Chamber

  Montreal, QC, Canada

  January 2020 - December 2020

  Working on the new Bioshock title.

• Senior Level Artist at The Coalition / Microsoft Vancouver

  Vancouver, Canada

  October 2015 - December 2019

  Gears 5 (XONE, XONE X, Win10)
  
  • Participating in a full production cycle - pitching, prototyping, producing and polishing environments.
  
  • Pushing the limits of Unreal Engine 4 while developing fully fledged open world levels.
  
  • Assisting with new team members onboarding.

  • Mentoring juniors and fresh graduates as well as helping movie industry veterans to adapt to real-
  
  time workflow.

  Gears of War 4 (XONE, Win10)
  
  • Building and optimizing environments for Singleplayer experience.
  
  • Assisting with lighting setups and building shader networks in UE4.

• Environment Artist at 2K Australia

  Canberra, Australia

  October 2013 - February 2015

  Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (PC/X360/PS3)
  
  • Built environments that fit Borderlands' series art direction.
  
  • Helped with optimization effort for all three target platforms.
  
  • Created art assets and assisted with outsource management, that includes: logging asset requests, providing feedback and reducing workflow bottlenecks where possible.

  Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel - Claptastic Voyage DLC (PC/X360/PS3)
  
  • Creative ownership of 3 levels.
  
  • Assisted with memory and performance optimization across all levels.
  
  • Global lighting and post-process passes.

• Environment Artist at People Can Fly / Epic Games

  Warsaw, Poland

  January 2012 - September 2013

  Unreal Engine 4 Showcase
  
  • Contributed to establishing visual style of samples provided with Unreal Engine 4.
  
  • Prototyped and built environments.
  
  • Requested new tools and features that enhanced pipeline, for environment and shader artists, in UE4.

  Gears of War: Judgment DLC (X360)
  
  • Creative ownership of a multiplayer map for overrun mode - Dreadnought.
  
  • Maintained environment art as well as some of shader and optimisation effort within the level.
  
  • Close collaboration with Level Designer. Constant evaluation and iteration on the map's layout and other gameplay aspects.

  Gears of War: Judgment (X360)
  
  • Handled building, polishing and optimising levels for the Singleplayer campaign.
  
  • Worked closely with Art Director, Lead Environment Artist and Level Designers to make sure we deliver the best experience possible. The biggest part of my work remains in Chapter 5 – Rooftops.
  
  • Implemented story telling through the environments.
  
  • Prepared promotional materials for E3 2012.
  

• English-Polish Translator at Teotl Studios

  Remotely

  July 2011 - August 2011

  Unmechanical (PC/iPad2/iPhone4s)
  
  • Translated the game and promotional materials to Polish.

• Contract Environment Artist at Black Lion Studios

  Remotely

  July 2011 - October 2011

  Unannounced project
  
  • Designed and built game environment.

• Environment Artist at The Farm 51

  Katowice, Poland

  June 2010 - October 2010

  Alien Rage (PC/X360/PS3)
  
  • Created art assets and shaders for Sci-fi interiors.
  
  • Built and lit levels with Unreal Engine 3

  Inhumator (Suspended)
  
  • Designed and built fantasy themed environments.

• Artist & Designer at TEAR Team

  Remotely

  January 2008 - January 2010

  TEAR (PC)
  
  • Founded Half-Life 2 total conversion mod.
  
  • Recruited and management multidisciplinary team of 8 to 15 persons.
  
  • Established visual identity of project. That includes environments, weapons, characters and collateral designs.
  
  • Maintained game and level design