Experience

• Freelance Character Artist at Various Companies & Projects

  January 2016 - Present

  Varied task as a freelancer:
  
  - Character/Asset Modeling for Games, Figurines and Product Design.
  
  - Tutoring/Consultations

  Selected Clients:
  
  Activision-Blizzard, Epic Games, Amazon Games, Microsoft, THQ Nordic, Hero Forge

• Senior Character Artist - Remote at Netflix Games

  Emelgem, BE

  October 2021 - March 2024

  Senior Character Artist on a stylized 3rd Person multiplayer game, built in Unreal Engine.

  - Setting up/streamlining modeling pipeline
  
  - Creating 3D models for Characters, Creatures and Customization, skinning, asset/material implementation.
  
  - Concepting creatures, clothing, equipment.
  
  - Creating documentation for owned tasks.

• Zbrush/Stylized Art Lecturer at HOWEST - Digital Arts & Entertainment

  Kortrijk, BE

  August 2018 - August 2022

  Lecturer at the Belgian game dev university “Digital Arts & Entertainment” (DAE)

  Creating & Teaching a stylized art course that focuses on design principles and 3D Character and PBR Pipeline for realtime projects.
  
  Updating & Teaching the ZBrush sculpting course.
  
  Guiding & mentoring student projects, research & internships.

  (DAE has won multiple awards for their excellence, including the coveted Best Game Design & Development School in 2017, 2018 & 2021)

• Character Artist - Remote at Airborn Studios

  Emelgem, BE

  June 2018 - April 2021

  - Character Artist for Skins on Fortnite Season 6.
  
  Sculpting/Highpoly, Retopo, Unwrap, Bake, PBR Materials.

  - Character artist for Supercell projects.

• Character Artist - Remote at Toys for Bob

  Outsource Belgium

  October 2017 - June 2018

  Freelance Character Artist on the game "Spyro: Reignited Trilogy".
  
  Responsibilities:
  
  - Creating and documenting workflow, basemeshes, materials, etc to streamline the creation of the ~80 Elder Dragons in the first game in the Trilogy.
  
  - Translate 2D concepts into game ready characters & creatures.
  
  > Hi-Res mesh, Retopo, Bake, Materials, Engine Implementation, Delivery
  

• Character Artist - Remote at Spiritwalk Games

  February 2016 - April 2017

  Freelance Character Artist on the game "Shardbound", a stylized tactics game.

  Responsibility: Translate 2D concepts into game ready characters & creatures.
  
  > Hi-Res mesh, Retopo, Bake, Materials, Engine Implementation, Delivery

• Character Artist at Arrowhead Game Studios

  Stockholm

  November 2013 - June 2015

  3D Artist on both Helldivers and Gauntlet.
  
  On Helldivers, Futuristic Top Down Shooter, my main focus was Player Characters and customization.
  
  On Gauntlet, Fantasy Dungeon Crawler, main task was the full pipeline for enemy units, ranging from humans to creatures.

  Position had the full creation pipeline, from concepting to in-game models in the Bitsquid Engine (Now called Autodesk Stingray)

• Character Artist at Triumph Studios

  Delft, Netherlands

  February 2013 - August 2013

  Character Artist on the fantasy TBS game, Age of Wonders 3, with a lot of focus on creatures.
  
  Position had the full creation pipeline, from concepting to in-game model in their proprietary Creator Engine.