shora farahani

shora farahani

Lead Environment Artist / 18 yrs

Los Angeles, CA

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Work History
  • Senior Level Artist

    Ghost Story Games

    January 2020 - Present
    Greater Los Angeles Area
  • Senior Unreal Game Artist

    Halon Entertainment

    December 2019 - January 2020
    santa monica, CA

    6 weeks contract to work on 2 in-engine cinematics

  • 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

  • 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

  • Naughty Dog

    January 2019 - July 2019
    Santa Monica, California

    via Yoh

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1523306/

  • 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

  • student

    Academy of Art University

    2006 - 2006
  • Technical Director

    Marvel Art, Tehran/Iran

    March 2005 - December 2005

    creating a full-CG short animation

Education
  • Academy of Art University

    2006 - 2009
  • Amir Kabir Polytheknic University

    2005 - 2006
  • BS - Computer Software Engineering

    Shahid Beheshti University

    September 2001 - July 2005