Erik Sutton

Erik Sutton

Senior Lead Texture Artist / 11 yrs

Canada

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Work History
  • Senior Surfacing and Grooming Artist

    Mainframe Studios

    July 2016 - July 2020
    Vancouver, Canada Area
  • Lead Texture Artist

    Atomic Cartoons

    October 2014 - October 2015
    Vancouver, Canada Area

    I worked on Beat Bugs from early development as Lead Texture Artist. This animated series features the music of the Beatles performed by many popular recording artists and was released in August of 2016.

  • Senior Texture Artist

    Nerd Corps Entertainment

    April 2012 - October 2014

    From 2011 to 2014 I worked on Mattel's Monster High 3d animated T.V. specials. While I was there I textured about half of the main cast, supporting characters and vehicles. I also occasionally contributed to sets and enhanced old character assets whenever possible.
    In addition to Monster high I also did a little work on the series Max Steel and Endangered Species.

  • Texture Artist

    Nerd Corps Entertainment

    June 2011 - April 2012
    Vancouver, Canada Area
  • Modeller / Texture Artist

    Creation Studio Ltd

    March 2010 - June 2010

    I worked at Creation Studio on "The Kools Family" an animated short by Richard Bazley. During my time there I modeled and textured all 4 characters in the film.

  • Modeller and Texture Artist

    Rainmaker Entertainment

    September 2007 - September 2008
    Vancouver B.C.

    Performed the duties of a modeller and texture artist, worked with characters and sets for a number of Mattel based straight to DVD films.

  • Games Artist

    CGTV Games

    March 2007 - September 2007

    Worked as a 3d artist using Maya for a number of different online casino games. Also integrated art assets, translations and set up flash files for our programmer.

  • Texture Artist

    Bardel Entertainment

    June 2005 - December 2005

    I Worked at Bardel as a Texture Artist on the feature film Happily N'ever After and on a test the studio did in a bid for the feature film 9.

Education
  • AI-Vancouver Burnaby

    2001 - 2003