Brighton Gardiner

Brighton Gardiner

Mid-level Technical Artist / 11 yrs

Salt Lake City, UT

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Work History
  • Technical Artist

    First Strike Games

    December 2017 - Present
    Bellevue, WA
  • Technical Animator

    The Void

    November 2016 - October 2017
    Lindon, UT

    At the VOID I led the design of the Avatar system, which used the limited tracking data from the stage and other technologies to drive full body multiplayer Avatars. The Avatar system is now a feature-rich platform that is easy to build upon and provides highly expressive Avatars with real presence.

  • Animator

    Electronic Arts

    November 2007 - November 2016

    Electronic Arts Salt Lake - Maxis.
    Games:
    -Sims 4
    -Sims 3: Into the Future (PC) -2013
    -Sims 3: University (PC) -2013
    -Sims 3: Supernatural (PC) -2012
    -Sims 3: Showtime (PC) -2011
    -Sims 3: Store (DLC) -2011
    -Sims 3: Pets (PC, PS3, 360, 3DS) -2011
    -Littlest Pet Shop: Biggest Stars (DS) -2010
    -Littlest Pet Shop: Friends (Wii & DS) -2009
    -Littlest Pet Shop (Wii & DS) -2008

  • Technical Artist

    Electronic Arts

    June 2016 - October 2016
    Salt Lake City, UT

    As the Technical Artist on this Mobile Match-3 game, I was given the task of matching the visuals of the film. To accomplish this I developed a pipeline that took large 4K plates from Nuke, split them into separate textures, took the characters at the top of the frame and created masked videos & FBXs that tracked the motion of that character.
    The result of this was beautifully rendered backgrounds with perfectly composited characters that matched the quality-bar set by Universal Studios.
    This is one of my favorite projects because I had to solve some very unique challenges, and I got to learn Nuke!

  • Character Artist

    Electronic Arts

    November 2007 - January 2011

    Electronic Arts Salt Lake
    Games:
    -Littlest Pet Shop (Wii & DS) 2008
    -Littlest Pet Shop: Friends (Wii & DS) 2009
    -Littlest Pet Shop: Biggest Stars (DS) 2010
    -Wilflife: Forest Survival (XBLA, PSN)

Education
  • Vancouver Film School

    2006 - 2007