Angelos Kostelis

Role Description

Employed as a Junior Environment artist and with time took up the responsibilities of a Mid-level.

Treehouse Ninjas is an outsource game environment studio,the team consisted of 11 artists and during my time there we were collaborating with Machine Games studio in Sweden.In general the team was given a specific area to work on in which each artist was given full ownership of a location chunk.

-Responsibilities-Tasks:

• Environment creation based on given concepts and references
• In engine environment creation pipeline from given level design blockout (metrics,modularization,architectural pass,set dressing,vertex painting,decal pass,polish)
• Game ready asset creation including LODs and engine integration (entire pipeline).
• Design asset sets that favor flexibility,performance and modularity.
• Creation of tile textures,trim sheets and decals.
• Come up with new workflows and experiment.
• Research,ref gathering,time estimation and work plan
• Gameplay improvements and feedback integration.
• Teamwork,exchange of workflows and practices.
• File sharing,naming rules and folder structure.
• Following the art direction,lore and metrics of the game.
• Outsource working environment (weekly updates,feedback,deadlines,client satisfaction).

-Game Projects:

• Indiana Jones and The Great Circle

-1 Year contribution

-Mid level artist responsibilities as mentioned above.

-Participated in a reference gathering trip to Rome Italy.

• Unannounced AAA project

-1 and half years contribution.

-Junior to Mid level artist responsibilities as mentioned above.

-Realistic first person online shooter.

- Open world environment.

-grounded in reality with a tech age of 80s-90s.

Role Description

Create game ready 3D environment models for an upcoming AAA small scale video game project with a 5 persons team.

-Responsibilities-Tasks:

• Create 3D game ready models according to given references and description.
• Import into Unreal Engine 4, collision making,LOD and shader creation.
• Asset 3D concepting.
• Time management
• Communication
• Shader creation inside UE4
• Problem solving and file sharing

-Game Project:

• Realistic art style.
• Alien fantasy environment settings.