Mark Scott

Work History

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  Art Director

  Blind Squirrel Games

  October 2022 - Present

  New World for Amazon and a top secret prototype

  

• Creative Director

  Concave Face

  February 2009 - Present

  Woodland Hills, CA

  Art Director for Nolan Bushnell on new blockchain venture
  Multiple marketing campaigns
  Studio Art Director (Mindwalk, Happylatte, Beijing) multiple AAA and mobile titles
  Directed teams of over ninety artists - China, USA and UK
  Consultant Producer - established protocols and pipelines increasing efficiency, delivering projects on or before deadlines
  Hands-on modelling on numerous video game titles including PS4/XBOne and mobile
  Prototyping, previz, assets, storyboards, concept sketches, documentation
  
  Titles worked on:
  
  Dead Space 2
  
  Simpsons
  
  Need For Speed
  
  Army of Two
  
  Elder Scrolls Online
  
  Guild Wars 2
  
  
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  Technical Art Director

  Dreamscape Immersive

  July 2021 - October 2022

  Culver City, CA

  Alien Zoo
  Men In Black
  Top secret stuff
  Dreamscape Learn project for Arizona State University
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  Art Director

  WayForward Technologies

  May 2019 - July 2021

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  
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  Art Director

  Just Add Water (Development), Ltd.

  February 2018 - September 2018

  United Kingdom

  I had the privilege of guiding the art team
  
  Sniper Elite VR (all major consoles and PC)
  
  Ice Age: Scrat's Nutty Adventure (Switch, PS, X-Box)
  
  
  
  

  

  
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  Senior Artist

  VRWERX

  September 2016 - September 2017

  United States

  Working in VR for all your favourite platforms
  
  Completed Paranormal Activity VR - now available on Steam for Oculus and Vive and on PlayStation 4 VR.
  
  Mission Impossible VR

  

• Art Department Manager

  Music Mastermind, Inc

  November 2011 - October 2012

  Calabasas, California

  Responsibilities include asset tracking, scheduling, supervising the team, attending meetings, tracking team's progress in addition to creating new assets for the project.
  
  Project:
  
  Zya

• Principal Artist

  Music Mastermind, Inc

  April 2010 - November 2011

  Calabasas, California

  Principal artist, 3D team leader, responsible for all 3D assets working on music app "Zya"
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  Multiple art positions

  Neversoft

  February 1998 - February 2010

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Senior artist, prop master, team leader, copy-writer,animator, VO actor, SFX, photographer, musician, associate AD
  Guitar Hero 6 - Warriors of Rock
  Band Hero
  Guitar Hero 5
  Guitar Hero Metallica
  Guitar Hero World Tour
  Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
  Guitar Hero 3 - AAA+ Number 1 title.
  (Was the biggest selling Activision title of all time, biggest selling game of 2007.)
  I made more than 90% of the in-game guitar models, and supervised modeling of the remainder. I also researched and selected all guitars in the game.
  Tony Hawk's Proving Ground. 360/PS3
  Tony Hawk's Project 8 360/PS3
  Gun (2005) PS2/PS3/X Box/Gamecube/360
  Tony Hawk's Underground (2003) PS2
  Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 (2002) PS2
  Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (2001) PS2
  Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (2000) PS1
  Spider-Man (2000) PS1
  Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (1999) PS1
  Apocalypse (1998) PS1

  

  

• 3D Artist

  Totally Games

  September 1995 - July 1997

  Terra Linda, CA

  3D artist making models and textures. I made the box art for X-Wing Vs TIE Fighter.
  X Wing vs TIE Fighter. (PC) Number 1 title.
  X-Wing for Macintosh
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  Associate Art Director

  Sony Imagesoft

  December 1994 - September 1995

  Santa Monica, CA

  3D Environment artist.
  Worked on three titles, none of which were published.
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  3D Artist/Animator/Associate AD

  Psygnosis

  November 1993 - November 1994

  Stroud, Gloucestershire

  Prototyped G-Police (may or may not have been a number 1 title, I'm not sure) during my tenure. I also made sprites for Mickey Mania.

• Associate Art Director

  Microprose

  March 1990 - October 1993

  Gloucestershire, UK

  2D/3D Artist/Animator, Team leader, art manager, Associate A.D.
  I was initially the only in-house artist at MicroProse UK for over a year. I worked on many and various projects, including conversions from US produced PC titles.
  I learned 3D Studio at MicroProse, before it was MAX. I was lead artist on several projects.
  F-19 (Amiga/ST) Number 1 title
  F15-II (Amiga/ST) Number 1 title
  Betrayal (PC)
  Midwinter 2 (manual)
  Railroad Tycoon (Amiga/ST) Number 1 title on all platforms
  Civilisation (ST) Number 1 title
  Super Tetris (Amiga/ST)
  F-117A (Amiga/ST)
  MicroProse Golf prototyping.
  Elite Plus (PC)
  Formula One Grand Prix art team leader (PC/Amiga/ST) Number 1 title
  Sub War 2050 art team leader (PC)
  Grand Prix 2 prototyping
  Thunderbirds video project

  

  

• 2D Artist/Art Director

  RealTime Games LTD

  November 1989 - March 1990

  Leeds, United Kingdom

  Battle Command (PC/ST/Amiga)
  Duster. (PC - unpublished)
  I worked with Ian Oliver and Andy Onions and Graeme Baird.
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• 2D Artist/Animator

  Source the Software House

  August 1988 - November 1989

  Otley, Yorkshire, UK

  Sonic Boom (Spectrum)
  P-47 Thunderbolt (Spectrum)
  Oriental Games (ST/Amiga)
  Rainbow Warrior (ST/Amiga)