id Software, Richardson, TX

Lead Lighting Artist | June 2021 – Present

• Collaboration with leads and directors
• Creative reviews for all level lighting and cinematics
• Assignments, scheduling, 1on1s, performance reviews
• idTech technology development
  • Feature planning / discussions / testing / feedback
  • Model viewer & cinematic lighting tools
  • Exposure, HDR & color grading
• Doom: The Dark Ages Revelations
  • Managed team of 3 lighters and 1 vista artist
  • Level & Cinematic lighting
    • Slayer’s Nightmare
    • Chain Spear Tutorial
    • Classic Doom maps
    • Ripatorium arena maps: Bone, Ice Hell, Classic
    • Various arenas
• Doom: The Dark Ages
  • Managed a team of 4-5 including in-office and remote. Onboarding for outsource lighting artists.
  • Level lighting
    • Sentinel Barracks – Slayer level
    • Sentinel Command Station – Slayer and Dragon levels
  • Cinematic lighting for epilogue barracks

Respawn Entertainment, Chatsworth, CA

Lead Lighting Artist | April 2020 – May 2021

• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
  • Recruited and trained two new hires
  • Planned story based lighting progression
  • Blueprint development

Senior Lighting Artist | May 2018 – April 2020

• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
  • Established look development test beds, photometric exposure standards, and documentation
  • Worked directly with programmers to develop features
  • Training and support for in house and outsource lighters
  • Lighting on various planets and districts
    • Bracca: Work site, Passenger Train, Cargo Train
    • Zeffo: Crashed Venator, Tomb of Miktrull, additional bits
    • Kashyyyk: Assisted E3 cinematic lighting, additional bits

High Moon Studios, Carlsbad, CA

Lighting Artist | July 2015 – May 2018

• Destiny 2: Forsaken
  • Environment lighting primarily on various Tangled Shore exteriors
    • The Cobble, Sorik’s Cut, The Boil, Salvage Zone QX
• Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
  • Lighting for Operation: Burn Water (refinery on Titan)
• Destiny 2
  • Environment lighting on various areas of IO destination

Moving Picture Company, Santa Monica, CA

Lighting Artist | September 2011 – February 2014

• Performed various roles including:
  • On-set CG supervision, HDRI acquisition
  • Look-development, lighting, rough compositing
  • Workflow and pipeline tools (python, MEL)
• Completed 31 jobs in 2½ years, including:
  • Ads for Acura, Chevy, Honda, Kia, Lexus, Mercedes, Nissan
  • Dust 514: Vicious Cycle