Eric Chadwick

Current

• Lead Technical Artist at Blue Fang Games

Past

• Senior Artist at Blue Fang Games
• Lead Artist at Whatif Productions LLC
• Artist, Animator, Art Director, Engineer at Mondo Media

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Education

• Rhode Island School of Design

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Games

Websites

• My Portfolio

Eric Chadwick’s Summary

• Veteran game development artist with 15 years game development experience.

• Concepts, storyboards, modeling, texturing, animating, effects, emphasis on real-time 3D.

• Directed teams of up to 15 artists and programmers, hired art talent, managed outside contractors, developed and maintained schedules and budgets.

• Organized and directed motion capture sessions.

• Constantly researching art tools and pipelines, documenting art technical constraints for each client's rendering engine. Trained and mentored art staff in new techniques.

• Video production for NTSC broadcast, DVD, and streaming video (QT, RM, WMV).

• Writing and maintaining an online Normal Map wiki page written specifically for artists: http://tech-artists.org/wiki/Normal_Map

Eric Chadwick’s Specialties:

• 3ds Max, Photoshop, Sony Vegas, Body Paint 3D, advanced DVD authoring, video compression, MediaWiki, PmWiki, MoinMoin Wiki, custom art tools, constantly testing new software.

Eric Chadwick’s Experience

• Lead Technical Artist

  Blue Fang Games

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  March 2009 — Present (9 months)

• Senior Artist

  Blue Fang Games

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  October 2008 — March 2009 (6 months)

  • Evaluating & improving content creation pipeline.
  • Editing internal wiki to clarify tool usage and art constraints.
  • Creating real-time 3D game content.
  • Teaching art techniques and best practices.

• Lead Artist

  Whatif Productions LLC

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 2001 — August 2008 (7 years 1 month)

  • Worked with small art and programming team to create real-time 3D and pre-rendered 3D artwork for games, technical demonstrations, and internal engine & tool development.
  
  • Directed artists and created assets in the production of two game titles for the U.S. Navy: NTE: Strike & Retrieve, and GMTS GeoCommander.
  
  • Created extensive testbed of real-time 3D demo content to test effectiveness of new builds, developed internal QA system for bug testing and reporting.
  
  • Worked with a web developer to design and implement new company website.
  
  • Created and edited demonstration videos for website and venture capital presentations.
  
  • Created NTSC-standard video DVDs with custom menu design and programming.
  
  • Created and maintained extensive internal wiki that documented the art pipeline, tools, techniques, and art technical constaints of the custom in-house rendering engine.

• Artist, Animator, Art Director, Engineer

  Mondo Media

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Animation industry)

  December 1991 — July 2001 (9 years 8 months)

  At Mondo Media I worked with game developers and publishers like Activision, EA, Disney, Hasbro, Interplay, LucasArts, Westwood, etc.
  
  Games (partial list):
  • Aladdin and the fate of Agrabah
  • Blade Runner
  • The Daedalus Encounter
  • Interstate '76
  • Mechwarrior 3
  • Need For Speed: Motor City
  • Rebel Assault II
  • Star Fleet Command II
  • Zork: Nemesis
  
  My roles:
  • Directing teams up to fifteen artists and programmers, hiring art talent, managing outside contractors, developing and maintaining schedules and budgets.
  
  • Creating concept art, modeling, texturing, animating, and creating effects.
  
  • Researching art tools and pipelines, documenting art technical constraints for each client's rendering engine.
  
  • Organizing and directing motion capture sessions.
  
  • Defining and implementing production pipelines for converting Flash into NTSC broadcast video and Real/WindowsMedia/QuickTime/SMIL streaming video.
  
  • Training and mentoring art staff in new techniques.

Eric Chadwick’s Education

• Rhode Island School of Design

  BFA , Illustration , 1988 — 1991

  Activities and Societies:

  Drawing, painting, sculpture,
  anatomy, computer graphics,
  European Honors Program, Rome, 1990-1991

Additional Information

Eric Chadwick’s Websites:

• My Portfolio

Eric Chadwick’s Groups:

•    Rhode Island School of Design
•    Game Developers
•    tech-artists.org

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