Meg Higginbotham

Work History

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  Surfacing Artist

  Laika

  May 2024 - Present
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  Surfacing Artist

  Blizzard Entertainment

  April 2021 - March 2024

  Irvine, CA
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  look dev

  FuseFX

  January 2021 - April 2021

  Sherman Oaks, CA
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  Surfacing Artist

  Blizzard Entertainment

  November 2019 - November 2020

  Irvine, CA
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  Surfacing Artist

  Blizzard Entertainment

  May 2019 - August 2019

  Irvine, CA

  Surfacing on the Cinematics team
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  Surface Artist for TV

  DreamWorks Animation

  February 2015 - June 2018

  Glendale, California

  Surfacer for Dinotrux, Puss in Boots, King Julien, Voltron, and more coming soon!

  

  

  

  
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  Surface Artist

  Reel FX

  August 2012 - January 2015

  Responsible for UVing, texturing, shader work, and materials on projects
  including Free Birds and Book of Life.

  

  

  
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  Contract Environment Artist

  Junction Point Studios

  November 2011 - August 2012

  Responsible for creating environment collision, modeling “toon” shapes,
  vertex blending, editing textures, fixing models, and extensive problem solving for
  eliminating bugs on Epic Mickey 2.

  
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  Texture Artist

  Reel FX

  January 2011 - June 2011

  UVed and created texture maps for props and set terrain for Ice Age: A Christmas Special. Work involved becoming familiar with shader networks inside of maya and being able to create procedural textures as well as hand painted and photo manipulated texture maps.

  

• Associate Artist

  InstantAction

  September 2009 - November 2010

  Responsible for concepting and creating high quality assets for Instant Jam, a console-quality music rhythm game on Facebook. Specific tasks included concepting various notes, fretboards, guitars, and vignettes as well as modeling, texturing, and occasionally animating many of these assets.

• 3D Artist Intern

  GarageGames

  June 2009 - September 2009

  Concepted Demo level and props for Torque, created sprites for TGB demos, and concepted character for Torque demos as well as created high-res character in Zbrush.

• Texture Artist Intern

  Motus Digital

  February 2009 - March 2009

  Responsible for designing scene layouts, creating hand painted textures, and laying out scenes for Ryan Laird's music video “Luv Me”.