Engineer Director

Ken Wong

Art Director, Artist, Designer, Creator

Name Kenneth Wong

Nationality Australian

Location Adelaide, Australia

London, UK in Feb 2013 (YMS work permit)

Languages English

Mandarin Chinese

Email ********@******.***

Online portfolio http://www.kenart.net

Current Project Indie mobile game: http://www.hackycat.com

Career Goal

To create, design and engineer high quality pieces of art and entertainment; to challenge

and be challenged by talented, enthusiastic collaborators; to push innovative concepts

and experiences alongside high level craftsmanship.

Career Highlights

2011 Art directed Alice: Madness Returns (PC, 360, PS3). Awarded Best

Graphics, Artistic, 2011 by Gamespot. The Art of Alice: Madness Returns

released through Dark Horse Books.

2005-2012 Presented talks and ran Creative Visualisation workshops at Animex

Games and Animation Festival at Teesside University, UK.

2011 Artwork included in Masters of Science Fiction & Fantasy Art edited by

Karen Haber.

Experience

Independent Game Developer

2012-Current

Solo development of Hackycat, a mobile game using Unity3D.

Design, programming (C#), art, animation. Collaborating with

external sound and marketing partners. Due for release February

2013.

Spicy Horse Art Director

2007-2011

Responsible for supervision, direction and training of concept

design, 3D, technical art departments. Coordinated with

outsourced art teams in China and Thailand. Development and

implementation of a variety of art styles. Pipeline development.

Hands-on with concept art, particle effects, lighting, materials and

textures. Game design documentation and prototyping.

Projects:

Alice: Madness Returns (PS3, PC, Xbox 360)

American McGee's Grimm (PC episodic)

Baijiu Racer (unreleased, preproduction)

Bighead Bash (web)

Enlight Software Art Director

2005

Projects:

American McGee presents Bad Day LA

2001-Current

Freelance Illustrator, graphic designer, concept artist

Concept art for games incl. Heroes of Might and Magic V

Book cover and album cover illustrations

Logo designs

Software & Skills

Expert level proficiency in Adobe Photoshop

High level of experience with Unreal Engine 3 and Unity3D Engine including

lighting, particle effects, materials, graphical optimisation.

Experience with 3dsMax, C#, Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, animation

Familiarity with Flash, Premiere, Maya, Illustrator

Education

Bachelor of Arts (Multimedia Studies) from University of South Australia, 2004

References

References available upon request.

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