Creath Carter
408-655-9540 ~ 1481 Placentia Ave. #14, Newport Beach, CA 92663
- www.creathcarter.com
My goal is to join a team of experienced developers who have a thorough understanding of the medium and desire to create good, fun games.
I am presently and happily employed.
Thank you for your interest!
Technical Experience -
• 3D ~ Maya, 3DS Max, Mudbox
• 2D ~ Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere
• Development ~ Doom 3, UnrealEngine 3, Unreal Engine 2, Virtools Dev
• High-poly modelling, Low-poly modelling, Scripting Shaders and Effects
Professional Experience -
Turbine Entertainment - Sept 2008 - Present
World Builder/Environment Artist (Lord of the Rings Online)
- Preproduced and designed new playable regions and spaces.
- Created basic gameplay scenarios by populating landscape and dungeons with NPCs and enemies.
- Modeled and textured and implemented natural environment assets into prorpietary engine.
InXile Entertainment - Apr 2006 - Sept 2007
Environment Artist/Environment Designer
- Created and textured "next-gen" environment assets Heist (all platforms).
- Created and set up dynamic physics assets, special effects for destructible props.
- Created environment layouts for missions utilizing given gameplay mechanics, as well as simple kismet sequences to support gameplay.
Art Institute of California, Orange County - Jan 2007 – Jun 2007
Part Time Instructor - Level Design
- Held weekly, 4-hour classes on art and level design for interactive media.
- Lectured on the topic of content creation for current and next-gen games.
- Lectured on the basics of Level Design and it's function as a designers tool for communication to an audience.
Electronic Arts - Apr 2005 – Dec 2005
3D Artist / Real-time Cinematic Artist
- Modeled, Textured and Rigged props, weapons and vehicles for real-time 3D ( Godfather the Game: all platforms ).
- Created alternate texture sets for pre-existing characters.
- Previewed, exported and integrated real-time cinematics into playable environments.
Vidiator Technology - Feb 2005 – Apr2005
Creative Artist
- Created concept art for characters, settings.
- Modeled, textured, rigged and characters with facial morph targets for proprietary facial motion capture system.
- Implemented characters into real-time and pre-rendered 3D mediums for portable content.
PlaneShift Jan2004 – Jan2005
2D/3D Artist
- Acted as 2D/3D Artist and Primary Environment Designer for the Massive Online open-source game PlaneShift .
- Designed, modeled and textured environments and props for the online RPG genre.
- Textured, rigged and animated player-characters.
- Coordinated designs and assets with a large, multinational team.
Enemy Technology Sep 2002 – Sep2003
2D/3D Artist & Environment Designer
- 2D artwork for Real Time Strategy game I of the Enemy
- Designed environments and digitally hand painted tiles for 2D RTS engine
- Created Units, buildings, landscape props, special effects, menu backdrops and animated company logo
- Painted and applied texture mapping to existing models for pre-rendered cinematic animations
- Awarded “Top 10 Indie Game” and “Sound Award” for 2004 by Game Tunnel ( www.gametunnel.com ), as well as the “Golden Star Award” from Bytten ( www.bytten.com )
Electronic Arts 1998
Games Tester
- Tested with a team of 6 people on NASCAR 99 for the N64
- Contributed design concepts and feedback while testing for bugs and product quality
Education -
Cogswell Polytechnical College 1996 – 2000
• Bachelors of Arts in Computer-Video Imaging with concentration in Game Design (Fall 2003)
• Training in 2D and 3D Digital Art, Game Development, 2D and 3D Animation, Special Effects Composition, Film Editing and Web Development
• Focus in Game Design and Development with emphasis on Level Design and creation.
Game Developers Conference 1998 – 2006
• Conference Associate from 1998-2003
• Attended classes, seminars, and tutorials on game and artistic design
References available on request.