shora farahani

Work History

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  Senior Level Artist

  Ghost Story Games

  January 2020 - Present

  Greater Los Angeles Area
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  Senior Unreal Game Artist

  Halon Entertainment

  December 2019 - January 2020

  santa monica, CA

  6 weeks contract to work on 2 in-engine cinematics
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  Senior Environment Artist

  Brud

  March 2019 - December 2019

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Creating realistic environments for each character to live in, based on references provided, inside Unreal4
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  Lead Environment Artist

  Tangent Games

  August 2019 - November 2019

  Burbank, CA

  Unannounced Title (single-player; TBA)
  ▪ Establishing the entire art pipeline for a procedurally generated game with AAA quality on Unreal4
  ▪ Creating the entire shader/material network which can support such high quality extended for the proceduralism
  ▪ Creating all art for levels in collaboration with the design team
  ▪ Supervising and integrating outsourced assets into the pipeline
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  Naughty Dog

  January 2019 - July 2019

  Santa Monica, California

  via Yoh

  
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  Pocket Gems

  September 2017 - December 2018

  San Francisco, California

  ▪ Working with Art Director on establishing the look for next evolution of “Episodes”
  ▪ Creating new PBR pipeline to be used in conjunction with proprietary 3D engine and documenting the workflow
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  3D Environment Artist

  Sledgehammer Games

  January 2013 - March 2015

  foster city, California

  - Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (single-player/multiplayer)
  - Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare DLC1/DLC2

  
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  3D Environment Artist

  Raven Software

  April 2011 - January 2013

  Madison, Wisconsin Area

  - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (single-player/multiplayer)
  - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - DLC1/DLC2/DLC4
  - Call of Duty: Black Ops2 (multiplayer)
  - Call of Duty: Ghosts (multiplayer)

  

  

  

• 3d Visualization/environment artist

  Shatara Architecture

  October 2010 - March 2011

  San Francisco Bay Area

  3d modeling/texturing/lighting/rendering of interior/exterior architectural scenes
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  Director/Creator

  Parallel Lines - Runaway short film

  May 2010 - August 2010

  Runaway is a 3 minute full-CG short film I made for Philips TV - Parallel Lines competition based on the original idea I had around the script that was given. I made it in the two and half months I got to know about the competition.

• 3d freelance artist

  PXL/ clickboom animation

  June 2009 - July 2010

  Creating 3D representation of landmark buildings based on the references provided

• 3d freelance artist

  PXL/ clickboom animation

  April 2007 - July 2010

  Creating 3D representation of landmark buildings based on the references provided

• Director/Creator

  Iceshed short film

  January 2007 - September 2009

  13 minute full-CG short film
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1523306/
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  technical director

  Cinematico

  August 2008 - December 2008

  *Monster vs. Aliens (Game Cinematic – 5 sequences)
  Technical director working on hair/cloth/lighting/effects/rendering
  *Xavier: Renegade Angel (TV show - 9 episodes)
  Sequence supervisor, working with all the team responsible for animation and making sure all the
  shots on each episode get delivered on the deadline as per client’s request

• freelance 3d artist

  clickboom animation

  April 2007 - August 2008

  modeling/texturing all kinds of landmarks on palnet earth

• MTV India/Ebrar-al-Hagh music video (Directed by Bilal Lisha

  September 2006 - October 2006

  Creating/rigging/animation/rendering of a crowd of skeletons based on the reference dance chorography provided
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  student

  Academy of Art University

  2006 - 2006

• Technical Director

  Marvel Art, Tehran/Iran

  March 2005 - December 2005

  creating a full-CG short animation