Cryptic Studios

Neverwinter (Live GaaS)

Director of Core Art/Senior Art XDev Manager

As Director of Core Art, I focus on the next level up, empowering the Core Art organization (including XDev) to expertly support the art needs for Neverwinter.

As Senior Art XDev Manager, I was essential to helping the project achieve our goals by providing collaborative, creative and strategic solutions focused on delivering consistently high fidelity artwork while considering scope, budget, and timeline. Some of my contributions included:

Spearheaded, managed, and maintained an external art program to bolster the Neverwinter (GaaS) development. Included role creation and team building, trust and relationship building, strategic partnerships, talent identification and acquisition, art testing, resource and packet building, mentoring, teamwork, project and task management, source control building, source control management, source control administration, budget management, contract management, negotiation, production, planning and scheduling, scoping, risk assessment, change management, identifying and defining best practices, processes, and pipelines fitting the needs of the project.
Organized and supported a network of project and studio/centralized artists to facilitate external art partners. Covered art production stages from initial ideation through in-game post-release support. Disciplines include concept art, UI/iconography, animation, skinning, rigging, character art, and environment art.
Coordinated with interdisciplinary project leadership to establish aesthetic and technical standards. Developed processes and guidelines to uphold them.
Individual contribution. Aesthetic and technical direction, asset review, paint-overs, green/redlines, modeling skinning, texturing, engine implementation, bug fix, asset polish.