James Crabb - 3d Artist
ABOUT
ME
“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”
~ Sir Winston Churchill ~
I
A 3d Artist
Hiya, my name is James Crabb, I am a BSC (HONS) Computer Games Technology Graduate from Portsmouth University, I acheived a 2:2 in my degree and a very strong 2:1 for my final year dissertation (Thesis), which was titled 'Developing Characters for Next-Generation Games' (More info below). I undertook Fine Art at Highfield secondary school and received GCSE, AS level and A level in that subject, along with others. This gave me a traditional artistic background and foundation necessary to become a 3d artist. I am currently looking for work within the games industry as a 3d artist, working on environment assets, characters or objects. I have a solid understanding of 3d Studio Max, Zbrush and Photoshop.
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Since University I have been working at a local, well established confidential Printers, Stephen Austin & Sons, full-time. With any spare time I have enjoyed developing my portfolio and furthering my skills within a variety of 3d software packages (Zbrush in particular).
I have always worked whether that be temporary, full time or part time, whilst at school, University and since. From my CV you will see because of the variety of work and situations I have demonstrated that I can work alone or as part of a team. For more details please see my Curriculum Vitae.
Industry Experience
Whilst I was completing my final year at University, I was fortunate to get the oppurtunity to get a temporary role at Climax Games company, doing Q & A for their Facebook team Arooga. This was, although not in my desired role, it allowed me to experience and realise, that this was the environment that I want to work in. It also allowed me to understand the pipelines and development processes involved in the games industry first-hand and it allowed me to just experience a game studio working environment. Which i enjoyed greatly.
EDUCATION
- BSc (HONS) Computer Games Technology from University of Portsmouth
- A Level, AS levels and GCSE's from Highfield Secondary School of which Fine Art was taken for 4 years.
CV & More Info
Curriculum Vitae
Click Here for my CV
A chapter of my University dissertation, is being used by my Tutor in his future lectures on the Subject of 'Developing Characters for next gen games' to help better explain the development of characters within the industry.
SKILLS
{Program experience}
- Autodesk 3D Studio Max
- Pixologic's Zbrush (Preferred 3d application)
- Adobe Photoshop
- Corel Painter
- 3d Coat
- Unity3d
{Skills}
- Highly self motivated
- Traditional Fine Art skills
- New found passion for human and animal anatomy
- Continually studying to improve and update current skill set
- Ability to work to Poly/texture counts
- Ability to work to Strict deadlines
- Very good attention to detail
- Highly Creative
- General knowledge of C++