John Ployhar

Work History

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  Senior Character artist

  TikTok

  July 2022 - Present

  Los Angeles County, California, United States
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  Senior Character Artist

  The Aaron Sims Company

  April 2019 - February 2020

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  www.JohnPloyhar.com
  
  Characters,.. and monsters,.. for VR, and Cinematics.
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  Character Artist

  Deluxe Entertainment

  November 2017 - April 2019

  Burbank

  Character Artist / Digital doubles for Flash, Titans, Legends of Tomorrow
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  3D Artist

  The Third Floor

  January 2017 - April 2019

  Burbank

  Characters, assets, props.

  

  

  

  
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  Character Asset artist

  Within (Virtual Reality)

  September 2016 - December 2016

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Character / Asset artist
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  Lighting Artist

  Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles

  May 2016 - July 2016

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Lighting for the Toyota new year models.
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  Senior Artist

  Inhance Digital

  March 2016 - May 2016

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  3d Artist
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  Senior Artist

  BioLucid

  March 2015 - March 2016

  Sarasota, Florida Area

  Senior Artist
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  Look Development Characters and Environments

  RGH Entertainment

  August 2011 - January 2015

  characters/ environments
  Canon 5D Mark iii Magic Lantern software
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  Modeling , lighting, texturing artist

  Superfad

  July 2011 - September 2011

  Los Angeles

  Modeling, lighting, texturing, vray

• Creative Director/ Art Director

  Celcius Games

  February 2009 - July 2011

  Creative Director and Founder
  Worked exclusively with the programmers on all aspects of development creating an iPhone game using the Unity3d game engine.
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  Lighting and shading

  The Famous Group

  December 2010 - March 2011

  Lexus commercial.
  Lighting,shading and render passes and Vray for Maya integration.
  Otherwise known as "the cleaner". :)
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  Lead Character Artist

  Blind

  October 2010 - December 2010

  THQ Motocross Madness
  Character Lead, and lighting and shading passes.
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  Modeling and Animation

  Inhance Digital

  2010 - 2010

  vehicles planes and texturing
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  Lead character artist

  Technicolor Interactive Services

  September 2008 - January 2009

  Oversaw character team for the development of a montage reel for Activision.
  Modeling, texturing, uv layouts of characters and lighting passes.
  
  Also included reviewal of assets from outsourcing team.
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  Character artist

  Sony

  February 2008 - November 2008

  Character Setup Artist
  Modeling human character likenesses for next gen PS3 titles. Character setup and skin weighting in Maya, and Zbrush used for creating normal maps.
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  Character Artist/Generalist

  Treyarch

  March 2006 - August 2007

  Modeling, texturing, uv layout, rigging and skinning.
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  Lead Technical Lighter

  EALA

  March 2005 - March 2006

  Environment lighting.
  Worked with the graphics programmers on implementation of light bloom, fog triggers.
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  Lead Lighter

  Treyarch

  June 2003 - March 2004

  Dead Rush (canceled title)
  
  Set up light rig for environments and worked closely with scripter to facilitate workflow.
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  Environment artist

  Black Ops Entertainment

  March 2002 - June 2003

  Modeling texturing lighting of environments.

• 3d Generalist

  Blackbox Digital

  March 2000 - July 2002

  Lead 3d artist for commercial work and film projects.
  
  Modeling texturing camera tracking, compositing, particle effects, lighting.
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  Environment artist

  Digital Domain

  May 2000 - August 2000

  environments