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Games Artist/Art Director
Brian White
Berkeley, CA
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About
Artist/Lead artist/Art Director with 20 years of game development experience, with a focus on free-to-play mobile games since 2011. Skilled at managing/mentoring internal and external teams of artists, placing the highest priority on building and maintaining quality, highly-productive relationships with team members and external vendors. Expert eye for evaluating and critiquing deliverables, accustomed to weekly content update cycles, backed up by extensive experience with every specialized role as a games artist over the years.
Background in industrial design, paired with a deep interest in architecture and period styles. Enjoy working in a wide variety of genres and art styles, from children's games to future sci-fi MMOs.
Specialties: art direction, art outsource management, visual development for gaming environments, concept and production art for characters, architecture and props, 2D and 3D prototyping and production art, UI design, children's educational games/applications.
Portfolio: www.brianwhiteart.com
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Education
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BFA Industrial DesignRhode Island School of Design1982 - 1987Rhode Island School of Design Award for Excellence in Design and Invention 1986 (awarded for line of original preschool toy designs)
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Experience
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Designer/Artist/Art DirectorFreelance Computer Games Artist/Art DirectorDec 2013 - Present (12 years 7 months)- Contract art director for unannounced MMO (project currently seeking funding)
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Lead ArtistDeNAOct 2012 - Dec 2013 (1 year 2 months)Contributing art director for mobile gaming titles, responsible for raising and maintaining the quality bar for in-game art assets, brought on and managed external individual artist contractors and art production studios from around the world, while producing concept art and final in-game art
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Director of IllustrationIdle GamesOct 2011 - Oct 2012 (1 year)Art Director and art outsourcing manager for social and mobile games
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Lead ArtistLionside (acquired by DeNA)Mar 2010 - Sep 2011 (1 year 6 months)Lead visual development for all game environments, design and create in-game assets, marketing and viral graphics - Lionside Football and NBA Legend on Facebook
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Sr ArtistHuman Nature StudiosNov 2008 - Dec 2009 (1 year 1 month)Was involved in every aspect of UI design, first user experience, art/design for mini-games, widgets, concept art/layouts for game screens, game maps, etc., for Dreamworks kids's MMO, Kung Fu Panda World
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Artist ContractorTrion World NetworkDec 2007 - Jun 2008 (6 months)Concept art: architecture and props, for Rift MMORPG
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Creative consultantBardo Entertainment2007 - 2008 (1 year)Concept Artist: design and production art for casual MMO prototype
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Sr Concept ArtistPerpetual EntertainmentNov 2006 - Sep 2007 (10 months)Designed environments, architecture and props, for Star Trek Online MMO; prepared associated 3D model specs for outsourcing
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Sr ArtistLinden LabAug 2005 - Oct 2006 (1 year 2 months)Designed and built public environments, such as orientation, learning/tutorial and international themed areas, for virtual world, Second Life
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Art Director/Sr. ArtistElectronic ArtsJan 2002 - Jun 2005 (3 years 5 months)The Sims 2: University, EP1 Oct 2004 – Dec 2004
Sr Concept Artist: assisted the Project Art Director with establishing the look of objects and environments, created object specs/designs for internal and external artists. Also assisted in reviewing asset submissions, and providing artists with feedback and direction.
The URBZ: Sims in the City May 2004 – Aug 2004
Sr Character Artist: character design, low and high-polygon modeling/texturing of game characters for PS2, XBox, DS
Sim City 4 - Rush Hour Feb 2003 – Sept 2003
Art Director: responsible for all aspects of project art direction, managed eight internal artists and several external art houses
CGA Level 4 Sim City 4 Jan 2002 – Jan 2003
Senior artist: assisted with art direction for internal and external artists, created specs/designs of building units for external modelers, produced 3D building units -
Sr ArtistMaxis (Electronic Arts)2001 - 2005 (4 years)Contributing Art Director, concept artist on Sim City4 and the Sims2
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Sr ArtistScientific Learning CorporationApr 2000 - Jul 2001 (1 year 3 months)Assisted with art direction and game design, designed scenes and game characters, produced traditional cel animation, 3D modeling / texturing and animation, for 3rd grade reading program, Fast Forword
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Sr ArtistFrog City SoftwareOct 1997 - Mar 2000 (2 years 5 months)Senior Artist, responsible for 3D modeling / texturing of architectural and character art assets for RTS games Pantheon and Trade Empires
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Artist ContractorBroderbund Software1997 - 1997Designed and produced all background layouts for Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? and Carmen Math Detective educational software titles. Also produced GIFanimations for Print Shop.
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Artist ContractorDisney Interactive1996 - 1997 (1 year)6 month project - produced concept drawings and background layouts for PC game, Villain’s Night Out.
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Artist / AnimatorBerkeley Systems1995 - 1996 (1 year)2D production artist responsible for background art, character design and animation for Triazzle and Totally Twisted Screen Saver.
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Artist ContractorTheatrix Interactive1994 - 1996 (2 years)Pre-production and production art for PC educational titiles, Julliard Music Adventure and Mathheads.
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Artist / AnimatorSoleil Software Inc.1994 - 1996 (2 years)Art direction, art production and game design for PC educational software titles: Zurk’s Learning Safari, Zurk’s Rainforest Lab and Zurk’s Alaskan Trek.
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Artist / AnimatorPresage Software Development1993 - 1994 (1 year)2D production artist responsible for background art, character design and animation for Lode Runner (8 bit 2D version).
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Associate Product DesignerFisher-PriceMay 1987 - May 1988 (1 year)Designed and prototyped preschool toys
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On Coroflot@bbrianwwhite, member since 2014
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