Scott Eaton

Work History

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  Art Manager

  Armature Studio

  August 2015 - Present

  Austin, Texas Area
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  Senior Producer

  Santa Monica Studio

  August 2014 - August 2015

  Playa Del Rey

  Art Department Management
  Artist Career Development
  Production Oversight of Art and Animation Departments
  Art Pipeline and Best Practices Oversight
  Staffing and Project Allocation
  External Partner Relations and Outsourcing

• Founding Partner

  Easy Like Productions LLC

  March 2014 - August 2014

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Drawing on my 15 + years in the game industry I am now focusing on bringing the best talent I know to create entertainment that we can share with our artsy/hipster/military/skeptic/gamer/comicon friends and family.
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  Character Department Lead: Lost Planet 3

  Spark Unlimited

  January 2010 - August 2013

  Spark Unlimited

  As the Character Lead, I was responsible for staffing the character department for Lost Planet 3. I also work with our game producer and Art Manager to keep us on budget and on schedule. I helped set up our character pipelines with our Character Technical Director. I also worked closely with our Art Director to provide art direction for our internal and external artists. I mentored and managed our character art team giving performance reviews and setting them on career development tracks.
  
  As a strong 3-D generalist, I also contribute to the game directly by modeling and texturing Characters, Creatures, as well as hard edge models such as vehicles, and weapons.

  

  

  
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  Art Manager

  Spark Unlimited

  January 2009 - January 2010

  Sherman Oaks

  I staffed our art team for a AAA project, putting together key hires: Art Director, Outsourcing Manager, Character Artists, Environment Artists, FX artists etc. I worked with the producer to create the schedule for all the art assets. I also facilitated creating all art pipelines and how they interacted with the other departments for clear communication. I mentored and managed Lead Artists and gave performance reviews.
  I worked with the Art Director to set up our Art Bible, and specs for all art assets for internal and external use.
  
  During production, I gave art direction and helped facilitate outsourced assets.
  
  As a strong 3-D generalist, I also contribute to the game directly by modeling and texturing Characters, Creatures, as well as hard edge models such as vehicles, and weapons.

• Character Department Lead

  Spark Unlimited Inc

  August 2002 - January 2008

  • Extensive experience with FPS and Action Adventure genre games
  • Collaborated in forming character/animation pipeline, and character style guide
  • Managing experience with Agile/Scrum and Waterfall
  • Comprehensive knowledge of Unreal 3, Maya, Photoshop, Z-brush, and Body Paint
  • Designed characters for film, games, and print/marketing
  • Shipped titles on PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, and PC
  • Shipped: Medal of Honor Frontline, Call of Duty Finest Hour, Turning Point Fall of Liberty, Legendary, Lost Planet 3
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  Electronic Arts

  August 1998 - August 2002
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  Dreamworks Interactive

  June 1998 - August 1998

  

• Nichimen Graphics

  September 1993 - June 1998