Matt McCulloch

Work History

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  Lead Environment Artist

  Cryptic Studios

  August 2019 - Present

  Los Gatos, CA

  Leading a team of 9 in-house artists to build the worlds for Magic: Legends

• Art Director

  Dasein House

  November 2016 - Present

  Co-founded Dasein House to bring AAA quality experiences to augmented reality
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  Spiritwalk Games

  March 2016 - September 2016

  San Mateo, California

  Equity member of the talented team at Spiritwalk Games to help define the world art direction
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  Senior Artist

  Crystal Dynamics

  August 2015 - February 2016

  Redwood City, CA

  The Rise of the Tomb Raider world is built using:
  • High-to-low resolution transfer modeling
  • Physically-based rendering techniques
  • Advanced probe lighting
  • Modular asset construction
  • Integrated Simplygon LOD (Levels of Detail); custom LODs
  Tombs
  The team's mission is to "Put the 'Tomb' back in Tomb Raider!". Working closely with our Montreal studio, we created all the tombs in ROTR.
  My role is asset creation, lighting, world building, storytelling and bug fixing (of course).
  Open World Levels
  Our overland team is in charge of building one of three spaces we call a "hub". Hubs are large open-world spaces Lara explores to discover paths to new and deeper story archs.
  My role is world building, asset creation, storytelling and more bug fixes.
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  Lead Environment Artist

  Crystal Dynamics

  January 2012 - November 2012

  Redwood City, CA

  • Internal and external art direction for all game levels
  • Asset modeling, textures, rigging, environment animation and world building
  • Lighting for all scripted times of day
  • Outsource management
  • Created and maintained schedules for all internal artists
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  Environment Artist - Team Lead

  Visceral Games

  March 2010 - January 2012

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Create rich, storytelling environments for the Dead Space franchise - a 3rd person, action, thriller.
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  Environment Artist

  PlayStation

  January 2009 - March 2010

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Helped to establish target look-development for the PlayStation Home project carrying them from pitch to completion, created PS Home Spaces for the titles FarCry 2, SOCOM, and several other unique Spaces.
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  Environment Artist

  Electronic Arts

  February 2008 - December 2008

  Environment creation for the "Dead Space" and "The Godfather II" games.
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  Senior Environment Artist

  Sony Online Entertainment

  April 2007 - January 2008

  Sole artist on a prototype game. Created all art to carry from concept, pitch, greenlight to demo.

• Senior Artist

  Sigil Games Online, Inc.

  2003 - 2007

  Responsible for modeling, texturing and lighting entire cities for the game Vanguard:Saga of Heroes.