Mark Ishak

Work History

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  Senior Lighting Artist

  Red Storm Entertainment

  May 2014 - Present

  Cary, NC

  Lighting, Atmospherics, FX

  
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  Lighting Artist

  343 Industries

  August 2013 - May 2014

  Employment Type: Contract (Yoh)
  
  Duties Included:
  • Researching, profiling, and developing new lighting tech and pipelines.
  • Utilizing advanced lighting techniques to create lighting, atmospherics, and post process effects for in-game and cinematic content.
  • Teaching/Mentoring other artists in lighting aesthetics and techniques.

  
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  Lighting Artist

  343 Industries

  May 2012 - January 2013

  Employment Type: Contract (Yoh)
  
  Console Titles: Halo 4 (go to https://vimeo.com/56671330 to view reel).
  
  Duties Included:
  • Utilizing advanced lighting techniques to create lighting, atmospherics, and post process effects for in-game and cinematic content.
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  Senior Lighting Artist

  Zipper Interactive

  January 2012 - June 2012

  Employment Type: Permanent
  Reason for Leaving: Company Closed.
  
  Duties Included:
  • Creating lighting concept paintovers in pre-production.
  • Consultations with Art Director on overall lighting direction/cinematography of projects.
  • Creating/maintaining lighting schedules for Producers, troubleshooting lighting related issues, and in-depth reporting of technical problems to relevant parties.
  • Creating lighting, atmospherics, and post process effects for both pre-rendered cinematics and in-game content.
  • Utilizing advanced lighting techniques.
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  Senior Lighting Artist

  Liquid Entertainment

  March 2007 - January 2012

  Employment Type: Permanent
  Reason for Leaving: New Opportunity
  
  Console Titles: Rise of the Argonauts, Thor, Unannounced Title.
  
  Duties Included:
  • Creating lighting concept paintovers in pre-production.
  • Consultations with Art Director on overall lighting direction/cinematography of projects.
  • Being solely responsible for lighting entire projects, creating/maintaining lighting schedules for Producers, troubleshooting lighting related issues, and in-depth reporting of technical problems to relevant parties.
  • Creating lighting, atmospherics, and post

  

  
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  Lighting Artist

  Treyarch

  January 2007 - March 2007

  Employment Type: Contract
  
  Console Titles: Spiderman 3: The Movie Game
  
  Duties Included:
  • Contracted for a few months to recreate from scratch and modify lighting, gobos, light behaviors, and color effects for interiors via proprietary software and Max.
  • Creating and modifying shader attributes and geometry in Max for lighting consistency.
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  Lighting Artist

  Neversoft

  March 2006 - October 2006

  Employment Type: Permanent
  Reason for Leaving: Lay Offs
  
  Console Titles: Tony Hawk's Project 8
  
  Duties Included:
  • Using lightmaps, shadowmaps, ambient color maps, vertex lighting, Pre-Computed Radiance Transfer, and creating light rigs via Max and other proprietary lighting tools to light interiors and exteriors.
  • Creating and modifying lighting and screen-space effects such as Bloom, color and saturation, Depth of Field, noise, etc.
  • Creating and modifying shader attributes such as specularity and normal maps for lighting consistency.
  • Modifying geo
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  Lighter

  Electronic Arts

  January 2005 - December 2005

  Employment Type: Contract
  
  Console Titles: The Godfather: The Game, From Russia with Love.
  
  Duties Included:
  • Aiding in the creation, debug, and modification of new, studio-wide, static and entity lighting pipeline tools & technology.
  • Using vertex lighting, lightmaps, shadowmaps, vertex blending, vertex smoothing, IBL nodes, and creating light rigs via Maya and other proprietary lighting tools to light interiors and landscapes.
  • Entity & Static lighting IGCs and pre-rendered cinematics.
  • Mentoring an intern.
  • Color correcting skyboxes to match ligh

• Associate Artist/Lighter

  TKO Software

  October 2003 - December 2004

  Employment Type: Permanent
  Reason for Leaving: Company Closed.
  
  PC Title: Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault Multiplayer developed for Electronic Arts.
  
  Duties Included:
  • Creating detailed style guides to direct the course of art creation and design.
  • Creating L.O.D’s and collision for art assets.
  • Creating, optimizing, and revising textures and normal maps for art assets.
  • Creating, placing, and manipulating lights in multiplayer levels via Max to light and beautify game levels.
  • Organizing and executing scan-line rendering of top-down terrain shadowm

• Story Editor

  FOX/ABC

  November 2002 - September 2003

  Employment Type: Contract
  
  Shows: American Idol: Season 2, Mr. Personality, Paradise Hotel, The Bachelor: Season 3
  
  Duties Included:
  • Assisted in creating story arc for episodes in reality television series’.
  • Liaison between producing and editing teams.
  • Leader of teams of five to ten people in logging stock footage for all episodes.
  • Operating an Avid video editing system.
  • Logging stock footage.
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  Quality Assurance Engineer/Customer Support Representative

  Activision

  February 2002 - November 2002

  Employment Type: Contract
  
  PC Titles: Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, Spiderman, Medieval: Total War, Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix, Star Trek: Star Fleet Command III
  
  Duties Included:
  • Single Player Lead for Return to Castle Wolfenstein (GOTY).
  • Creating and executing test plans.
  • Accurately describing game discrepancies and defects.
  • Play-testing software.
  • Determining hardware/software compatibility & master CD verification.
  • Aiding customers technical support needs in a friendly and professional manner via tele