Creath Carter
- www.creathcarter.com
408-655-9540 ~ 56 Grant St. #1 Needham MA . 02494
Technical Skills
• 3D ~ Maya and 3DS Max
• 2D ~ Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere
• Development ~ Unreal, Unity, Virtools, MMF
Professional Experience
Turbine Entertainment - Sept 2008 - Present
World Builder/Environment Artist Lord of the Rings Online (Lotro) (PC)
Lotro-Mines of Moria
• Designed and constructed dungeon/instance environments using proprietary tools.
• Performed end-user art/tool pipeline evaluation.
Lotro-Siege of Mirkwood
• Created, textured and implemented environment assets.
• Designed, constructed and assisted with look and feel of region.
• Generated new user tutorials and tools documentation for ease of training .
Lotro-Ride of the Grey Company (Enedwaith, Free-to-play)
• Concepted, designed and assisted in driving art direction for new region.
• Created, textured and implemented environment assets.
• Assisted in design and creation of quest flow, player towns, and region-specific critical path.
• Assisted with implementation and evolution of main studio art pipeline and process.
• Assisted in training interns and new employees focusing on efficiency and information retention.
InXile Entertainment Apr 2006 - Sept 2007
Environment Artist/Environment Designer Heist (all platforms) (cancelled)
• Created and textured "next-gen" environment assets.
• Created and implemented physics assets, special effects for destructible props.
• Created environment layouts for missions utilizing given gameplay mechanics.
• Scripted simple kismet sequences for events.
Electronic Arts Apr 2005 – Dec2005
3D Artist Godfather (all platforms)
• Modeled, Textured and Rigged props, weapons and for gameplay and cinematic use
• Textured in-game characters for variation.
• Previewed, exported and integrated real-time cinematics into game environments.
Vidiator Technology Feb 2005 – Apr 2005
Creative Artist
• Created concept art for characters, settings.
• Modeled, textured, rigged and characters with facial morph targets for use in Vidiators Face Station facial motion capture system.
• Implemented characters into real-time and pre-rendered 3D mediums for portable content.
• Assisted in design of character customization system for end-user content creation.
Atomic Blue 2004 – 2005
2D/3D Artist PlaneShift (PC)
• Acted as 2D/3D Artist and Primary Environment Designer for the Massive Online open-source game.
• 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 2002 – 2003
2D/3D Artist & Environment Designer I of the Enemy (PC)
• 2D artwork for Real Time Strategy game
• 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 )
Sony Electronics 2000 – 2002
Creative Engineer CLIE Handheld Project (defunct)
• Part of the US Sony CLIE Development and Localization team.
• Related responsibilities include device GUI design, Graphic CD design, Install CD GUI Design and layout, and third party games testing.
• Device Concepts and design - Device GUI design -PGPocket, MSInterface, MSGate, and CLIE Paint
• Installation CD design - created art content for US Installation CDs, interface layout.
• Other responsibilities including team lead for accessories, interactive media consultant, internal device training engineer and support liaison.
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
Oak Technology 1997
Games and Hardware Tester
• Tested Oak Technology's developmental 3D video card with current 3D interactive titles and against other competing hardware (product cancelled)
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 production.
Game Developers Conference 1998 – Current
• Six Year Conference Attendee and Associate
• Attended classes, seminars, and tutorials on game and artistic design