Visual Artist- Kamil Chojnacki

Objective:
To be inspiring and be inspired in a creative and professional team environment as a hardworking  Artist.
              
Professional Experience:


April 2009-Current 2010		United Front Games		      Senior Artist/Contractor 
-Offered 7+ years of industry experience as a Senior artist in creating environmental assets and props to fit concept, art styles, art guides and to budget   
-Creating AAA quality art in open world action combat/driving "True Crime: Hong Kong" (XBOX360/PS3) and racing title "ModNation Racers" (PS3 exclusive) during peaked productions to get deliverables done on time
-Meeting aggressive deadlines and staying creative in constraints, memory hurdles and upholding high standard of artistic vision. 
-Art polish, maximizing optimizations, greyblocking for pleasurable driving/combat experiences, setting up interactive "high action" props, keeping build stability, and closing out bugs 
-Working with NIS team to create custom environments and convey mood through architecture and prop placement.
-Assisting junior artists in achieving art goals and offering constructive feedback



2003-2008		Piranha Games/JarHead Games		      Artist/Senior Artist 
-5+ years industry experience as well as senior artist  
-Worked on 2 AAA titles with experience in open world action titles and developing on multiple platforms Xbox360, Wii , PC, PS2
-Model/UV/Sculpt/Texture art assets ranging from characters, animals, vehicles, environment art to terrain
-Experience creating urban/outdoor environments, world textures/props and creating particle fx
-Manipulating lighting and shaders 
-Familiar with Infernal, Source, Gamebryo, Unreal, Radient, LithTech  Editor



AAA/AA Credits:  
*True Crime: Hong Kong XBOX360/PS3 (current) by Activision
*ModNation Racers DLC PS3 published by Sony
*ModNation Racers PS3 published by Sony
*Lord of the Rings: Return of The King PC/Gamecube/Xbox/PS2	
*Unannounced Sports Title 360/PC/Wii  
*Unannounced Sports Title 360/PC/Wii


Credits:
BetOnBattles
Marine Sharpshooter 3
GunClub
DMZ North Korea 
Outlaw Chopper 
Army Ranger Mogadishu 
WW2 Sniper 
Marine Sharpshooter 2


2003	 	       Electronic Arts Canada			              Motion Capture Operator
  -Tracking, identifying and repairing motion of talent to clean 3d positional data using EvaRT
  -Assisted studio in achieving highest number of man moves completed than in previous years

Credits:
 FIFA
 March Madness 
 MVP Baseball 
 NBA Live 
 Need For Speed: Underground 
 NFL Street


2002	 	     Uskaarj-Unreal Tournament Mod	            Lead Texture Artist
 -Created textures for first Real Time Strategy Mod using Unreal Tournament engine

2002	 	     Steakhouse Games			                     Art Intern
 -Creating art assets under supervision of art director for GameBoy Advance prototype



Skills:

3D Modeling/Sculpting:
 -Strong high and low polygon skills for in game environment assets, props, vehicles and character models 
 -AAA experience, techniques and work flow as well as strong normal map techniques 
 -Experience in creating static objects, terrain, outdoor/urban environments, props, and vehicles
 -3D Studio Max , Zbrush, Maya, Roadkill UV , 
 -Production knowledge of finalizing models into game engines as Infernal, Source, Gamebryo, Unreal, Radient, LithTech

Texture Mapping/Skinning:
  -Painting textures, UV layout mapping, normal mapping for high resolution game models as well as some pixel work 
  -Digital painting, conceptual, sketching skills
  -Photoshop, Painter, Illustrator

Animation/Motion Capture Knowledge: 
  - Kaydara Filmbox, Motion Analysis, EvaRT

Education:
 10/1999-10/2001                 Center For Digital Imaging & Sound   		 Burnaby, B.C
 Electronic Game Art and Design - 2 year certificate
 Game Design Award 2001 ($1000 scholarship)
              
 Tutored Photoshop and 3D Studio Max while attending college

9/1995-9/1999                       Etobicoke School of the Arts             	   Etobicoke, Ont.
Major: Visual Arts- Diploma received

Other Experience:
2003-Current                          Southside Community Church		   Youth Leader
-Mentoring high school students
-Coordinating events and running programs with the team

Interests: 
             Video Games, Sports, Art, Camping, Collecting art books