• Bellevue, WA, USA
• holtjharper@gmail.com

Software Experience

• ZBrush
• Maya
• 3ds Max
• xNormal
• Photoshop
• Substance Painter & Designer
• Unreal Engine 3 - 5

Specialties

• Organic and stylized modeling and sculpting
• Photogrammetry and assembling scenes from data
• Physically based rendering/texturing techniques
• Collaborating with designers to craft story beats in environments
• High-poly to low-poly texture baking
• Hand-painted texture creation
• High-poly and low-poly modeling and optimization
• 3D Printing and computer aided manufacturing

Other Skills

• Mentoring teamates and raising the quality of the overall project
• Learning new software and techniques and applying them to development
• Stylized and physically based rendering and shader editing
• Import/export for various game engines (Unreal, Cryengine, Unity, proprietary in-house tools)
• Experienced with asset management and source control software
• Photography including texture capturing and advanced lighting techniques
• Traditional sculpting background

Professional Experience

First Strike Games - 2017-2018

Senior Environment Artist - Rocket Arena

Responsibilities:

• Designing, blocking, and building the underwater-themed Shimmering Depths and Star of Crater
• worlds for Rocket Arena. Stylized worlds were built around the fast, playful and snag-free priorities of
• a new Smash-style third-person Shooter.

Turn 10 Studios - 2017

Track Art Lead - Forza Motorsport 7

Responsibilities:

• Leading the development of the Forza 7 crown-jewel track: Dubai. Replicating the harsh arid landscape
• of the Hafeet Mountain road and Liwa desert, we grounded our fictional Grand Prix event in the most
• photo-real location ever created for a racing game. As the premier launch title for Microsoft's XBOX
• ONE X, it was built to demonstrate the fidelity of the most powerful console on the market.

Lakshya Digital - 2016-2017

3D Artist - Various Titles

Responsibilities:

• Acting as an Art Director for outsourced artwork, I steered the work of several teams of 10 to 30
• artists in creating characters, props, and environments for projects around the world. Primarily
• managing Sea of Thieves Character and Environment Assets; the playfully stylized direction posed an
• engaging challenge to keep the artists performing at their best and maintaining Rare's satisfaction.
• Evangelized education, planning, process improvements, and increased artist autonomy.

Airtight Games - 2015-2016

Senior Environment Artist - Murdered: Soul Suspect

Responsibilities:

• Lead small groups in tasks focused on identifying areas of the environments that could be improved, and planning and executing those changes with design and animation teams
• Create rich environments with performance for release on previous and current-gen consoles
• Author and drive set dressing and environment revisions for design changes and incread visual quality
• Adjust and augment existing pipeline with new art assets
• Use Unreal 3 to create high-quality natural and manmade environments with advanced material blending
• Planning the pipeline and authoring modular environments for a prototype flight combat game

Gas Powered Games - 2009-2012

Senior Environment Artist - Project Spark

Responsibilities:

• Sculpt high resolution stylized models and game assets
• Use proprietary voxel based tools to create fantastical deformable adventure spaces
• Create materials for a mask-based system where players have unlimited choices of color

Environment Artist - Age of Empires Online

Responsibilities:

• Supervise interns, maintaining game style and quality
• Work with designers to add verticality to custom battlefields
• Create stylized tiling textures and plants and customize scripts to place them randomly into levels sensibly

Environment Artist - Supreme Commander 2

Responsibilities:

• Design, model and texture RTS game evironments under tight schedule and budget for DLC release
• Leveraging many existing assets to create unique new environments
• Integrate hundreds of models from outsource, unifying texture, mesh and LOD look and feel
• Stage and composite massive battles in game for publicity, advertizing and box art
• Create icons to be used in game and for earned achievements

Microsoft Game Studio - 2007

Test Associate 2 - Project Gotham Racing 2

Responsibilities:

• Use proprietary testing tools to check tracks for collision and display errors
• Ensure that cars, motorcycles and tracks acurately reflect their real-world counterparts
• Create and execute test plans for a constrained console test environment

Liquid Development - 2006

Freelance 3D Artist - Various Titles

Responsibilities:

Create models, normal maps and advanced materials for game world objects
• Adapt to new projects weekly, maintaining high quality work
• Communicate clearly about work progress and quality over narrow lines of contact
• Game assets included: Mass Effect, Guitar Hero 2, The Bourne Conspiracy, Sierra (unreleased) SWAT