Brighton Gardiner

Work History

• Technical Artist

  First Strike Games

  December 2017 - Present

  Bellevue, WA
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  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.
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  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

  

  

  

  

  
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  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!
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  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)