Joel Durham

looking for concept-art and/or 3D Generalist contract work.

Senior 3D Artist/concept artist / 14 yrs

Santa Monica, CA, United States

Hire Me

lead texture artist

Star Trek: Discovery (2017)

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014)

Work History

3D Character Artist

Thinkingseedstudio

October 2022 - November 2023
onsite at Apple

PrO Unlimited

May 2021 - August 2022
Conceptual Artist/AR and VR Consultant

Lab5 systems

January 2021 - September 2021

Creation and development of fully realized photorealistic renders for various industries.
3D/Unreal Artist

Zoic Studios

December 2020 - January 2021

Responsible for:
* Creation of 3D assets for AR app in Unity (3D modeling, texturing, lighting and look development of both characters and environments)
* Integration of assets into Unity engine
Senior 3D/Unity Artist

Lab5 systems

September 2020 - December 2020

Asset creation in Unity for VR training simulator
Senior Concept Artist/Modeler

Intelligent Design Agency

December 2019 - September 2020

Los Angeles, California, United States

Responsible for:
* Designing architecture, environments
* Overal image composition
* Lighting/look development of scene
* Final renders
* Concept painting

*Blender*Maya*Zbrush*PS*MOI3D*Octane*
Virtual Reality Development Specialist

Springbok Entertainment

April 2020 - May 2020

Los Angeles, California, United States

Responsible for translation CAD data of full environments to Real Time Ready assets for use in Unity.
unreal look dev artist

Digital Domain

June 2019 - December 2019

Playa del Rey

1. Development of workflows for efficient matching of film assets in unreal 4 from maya/vray pipeline. (Matched UE4 lookdev scene to ACES renders from film dept for 1:1 look between UE4 and Vray)

2. Created master materials for each asset type to be used across the project.

3. Environment Asset creation (modeling and look dev)
Senior 3D Artist

MPC

August 2017 - November 2017

Culver City

Modeling / Texturing / Lookdev

Creatures + Characters + hard surface
Senior 3D Artist

Framestore

February 2017 - July 2017

United States

Modeling / Texturing / Lookdev / Lighting
Lead Texture Artist

CBS Television Studios

August 2016 - February 2017

Greater Los Angeles Area

Lead Texture Artist working on Star Trek Discovery
Lead Unreal 4 VR Artist

Cognition LA

July 2016 - August 2016

Los Angeles

Unannounced project.
Look Dev/Lighting Artist/Matte Painter (Freelance)

Electric Theatre Collective

June 2016 - July 2016

Santa Monica

Unannounced projects.
Senior Freelance 3D Artist

Blur Studio

February 2016 - June 2016

3D Artist responsible for:

* Hero props
* Character updates
* Shot sculpting
* Python script development
JAMM

November 2015 - January 2016
Senior 3D Artist- Freelance

Electric Theatre Collective

January 2016 - January 2016

- Creature modeling + texturing
- Hard surface modeling + texturing
- Shot lighting
Senior Character Artist

JAMM

January 2016 - January 2016

Santa Monica

- Created the hippo sculpt
Senior Character Artist- Freelance

JAMM

November 2015 - December 2015

* Concept design for female robot character
* Modeling female robot as well as face sculpting on the male and female robot.
Character Artist/Unreal 4 Specialist - Freelance

MPC

July 2015 - November 2015

Worked on 2 projects:

* Unreleased VR project: Supervised asset creation as well as created and implemented assets in UE4.
* Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 commercial. Modeled the main robot. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/41YY8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejMqe1WBtEQ
Character Artist - Freelance

MPC

February 2015 - October 2015

Santa Monica
Creature Artist- Freelance

JAMM

May 2015 - July 2015

Sony Tri-Star logo:

Creature modeling/sculpting of main Pegasus:

https://www.jammvisual.com/work/sony-tristar-intro-ident
3D Character Artist

MPC

February 2015 - April 2015
3D Artist

Sledgehammer Games

May 2014 - February 2015

Shipped Title: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
3d Artist

Stardock

June 2011 - May 2014

Shipped Titles: Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion, Galactic Civilizations lll
Contract 3D character artist

Emotional Robots Inc.

October 2013 - February 2014

Temporary contract - I created several 3D characters for a mobile game.
Contract 3d artist

9th Ray Studios

March 2012 - March 2012

Modeling and initial texture pass for the robot gumdrop in the short film "Gumdrop" by Kerry Conran.
Seven Fold Films

July 2010 - September 2010
New World

July 2009 - June 2010