David Abfall

Work History

• 

  Environment Artist

  Sledgehammer Games

  October 2016 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area
• 

  3d Artist

  Pocket Gems

  March 2014 - January 2015

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Unannounced title, IOS
  - World building - including lighting, terrain building, and prop placement
  - Created modular environment pieces
  - Modeled and textured low poly props and buildings
  - Worked with engineers to create shaders and new tools for engine
  - Worked with designers to prototype new features
  - Made visual targets for outsourcing artists
• 

  3d Artist

  Turbine, Inc.

  December 2011 - December 2013

  Greater Boston Area

  Infinite Crisis, PC
  - Modeled, textured, and did the tech setup for fully destructible environment pieces
  - Material and APR setup for modular buildings and textures
  - Texture and mesh optimization
  DDO - Horde of the Underdark, PC
  - Created large indoor and outdoor deco sets and environment pieces
  - Integration of 3d assets into proprietary MMO game engine

• 3d Artist

  Fire Hose Games

  August 2010 - April 2011

  Slam Bolt Scrappers, Playstation Network
  
  - Created low poly models and textures for characters and environments
  - Mapped UV coordinates for art assets
  - Created and helped implement UI and HUD elements
  - Completed optimization, testing, and bug fixes on art assets
  - Worked with animators and programmers to export assets to the Gamebryo engine

• Lighting / Texture Artist

  Spiderwood Studios

  April 2010 - August 2010

  
  “Flight of Magic” Animated Short
  - Lit high-res interior and exterior sets
  - Created light rigs for characters
  - Worked with team to add mental ray into rendering pipeline
  - Created hand painted textures for character models