Craig Dowset
Modeler/Texture Artist, Character/Environmen Artist, Teacher
Senior Modeler/Texture Artist / 19 yrs
California
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Work History
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cg lead artist
Nickelodeon
May 2024 - December 2024Burbank, CAI am a lead asset artist at Nickelodeon working on Transformers: EarthSpark. My responsibilities include creating main assets, QCing models/textures, helping artists to meet deadlines, creating tutorials/documentation, critiquing the team’s work, and a variety of other tasks.
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Environment Artist
NantStudios
February 2024 - May 2024El Segundo, CAI worked as a Environment Artist for a real time UE based volume. Responsibilities include Sculpting/Modeling/UVs, Texturing/Lookdev, Lighting/Rendering, Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter, Marvelous Designer and more.
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Character/Environment Artist
Mindshow, Inc
August 2023 - January 2024At Mindshow I create character/prop assets for real time animation projects.
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Character Artist
Marvel Animation Studios
January 2022 - January 2023I am currently working on "Spider-Man Freshman Year" at Marvel Animation. My job responsibilities involve character modeling for both development and final production.
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Modeler
DreamWorks Animation
April 2019 - January 2022GlendaleMy responsibilities included creating character and environment models. I helped to introduce Unreal as a tool for our team's pipeline.
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Character Artist Lead
Fox VFX Lab
April 2018 - March 2019Los Angeles CAI worked as the character lead for the virtual art department. My role focused on creating real time character assets and leading a team of character artists to do the same. On top of generating character art, my team generated props and set decoration. As part of my lead responsibilities I kept artists on task, helped define a schedule, and created educational documentation for our team.
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Education
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Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Illustration
Rhode Island School of Design
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