Experience

• Principal Environment Artist at Guerrilla

  Amsterdam, Netherlands

  February 2022 - Present

• Lead Artist at PUBG - PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions

  Amsterdam, Netherlands

  June 2020 - August 2021

• Lead Environment Artist at Cloud Imperium Games

  Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  January 2017 - June 2020

  Worked as the Lead Environment Artist in the German office building up the team, working on the planets in Star Citizen as well as larger landing zones in the persistent universe.

  Our team works closely with the engineers further developing our planet technology and pipeline as well as building the content for these locations.

• Senior Environment Artist (last held title) at Crytek GmbH

  Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  December 2011 - December 2016

  responsibilities included:
  
   - taking areas in multiple levels from whitebox to final quality
  
   - composing and dressing environment scenes
  
   - modeling and texturing high quality 3D assets
  
   - optimizing for performance
  
   - involved with researching and evaluating art pipeline improvements
  
   - being involved with pre-production and concept discovery
  
   - mentoring and training interns/junior team members

• Game Art Lecturer at HAN University of Applied Sciences

  Arnhem, Netherlands

  February 2009 - November 2011

  Worked part-time as a lecturer, lecturing Unreal Engine 3 and modeling/texturing using 3ds Max and Photoshop. During student projects I functioned as an adviser & mentor for the art teams.

• 3D Artist at Interceptor Entertainment

  Worked Remotely, Denmark

  April 2011 - November 2011

  Worked remotely with an international team on Duke Nukem: Reloaded, a revision of the original Duke Nukem 3D with support and license from Gearbox Software. Responsible for environment assets and 3D props. Project unfortunately canceled.

• 3D Artist at Engine Software

  Doetinchem, Netherlands

  February 2009 - September 2009

  Started as an intern 3d artist in February and continued as 3d artist during the summer. Worked on 3d environments for 3 Nintendo DS titles.
  
  responsibilities includes:
  
   - modeling and texturing entire levels from blockout to finished state
  
   - animating simple environment pieces
  
   - using vertex color to paint in lighting information, shading and color variation
  
   - optimizing performance, testing and bug fixing