3D Environment Artist

Tristan Chesselet Artstation Linkedin

I’m a **-year-old 3D Environment Artist with over 6 years working as a graphic designer and 2.5 years working as a 3D Environment Artist in the games industry. I’m a pragmatic problem solver, with a good eye for composition and design, and a passion for balancing strong technical and artistic skills. Experience

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All Possible Futures - Senior 3D Environment Artist SEP 2022 - PRESENT

Unreal Engine, Maya, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, ZBrush, Photoshop All Possible Futures is an independant game development company founded in 2019 by industry veterans James Turner and Jonathan Biddle.

● Created many high-quality 3D assets, props and characters, all with optimal polygon counts and texel density, utilising modern PBR workflows.

● Used Substance Designer and Substance Painter to create many textures and materials for various assets.

● Built multiple shaders and materials for the project in UE4, with a wide variation in complexity (such as an animated raindrop on glass shader).

● Set up the lighting for multiple levels.

● Produced final production quality light bakes.

● Adjusted and optimized various assets’ lightmap densities and lightmap UVs where necessary.

● Created LODs and optimized collisions for multiple assets, as well as many bug fixes throughout the project.

● Wrote a Python script for Maya that helped speed up the process of UV unwrapping unique gameplay meshes that required 2D gameplay to take place within their textures.

● Rigged and animated characters in Autodesk Maya.

● Worked on scene development and level art for multiple 3D levels, which included set dressing environments in a believable and engaging way, with respect for the gameplay requirements of the level.

● Practised clear, concise and polite communication, respect for other team members and punctuality. Freelance Graphic Designer, Illustrator & UI/UX Designer APR 2018 - SEP 2022 Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Figma, After Effects

● Delivered high-quality work to clients across many industries, as well as worked alongside studios such as Bewilder.tv, Blinktower, The Makers Company and OkAlpha on animation and design work for brands such as Carmax, LinkedIn, De Beers, United Airlines, NFL and Deloitte. The Makers Company - Graphic Designer & Illustrator JAN 2018 - MAR 2018 IO Digital - UI/UX Designer & Illustrator APR 2017 - DEC 2017 Education

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Think Tank Training Centre - Vancouver, CA - 3D Environments for Games Online Diploma OCT 2020 - JUN 2022 Cape Town Creative Academy - Cape Town, SA - BA Interaction Design JAN 2014 - NOV 2016 Technical Skills

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AUTODESK MAYA - SIDEFX HOUDINI - ZBRUSH - SUBSTANCE PAINTER - SUBSTANCE DESIGNER - SPEEDTREE MARVELOUS DESIGNER - GAEA - UNREAL ENGINE - ADOBE PHOTOSHOP - ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR - BLENDER

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