Jason Kaehler

Current

Sr. Art Director at Maxis

Past

Art Director at Midway Amusement Games LLC
Art Director at 3DO
Creative Director / Founder at Osiris Studios

Art Director at Zombie VR
Character Artist / Ride Designer at Walt Disney Imagineering
art lead at Xatrix Entertainment

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Education

California Institute of the Arts

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Games

Websites

Jason Kaehler’s Summary

- 16 years of increasing responsibility in videogame development
- Recent focus on building AAA art teams for PC & console
- Constant dedication to shipping great games on-time and on-budget
- First AD at Midway to develop game for Unreal3, xbox360 and PS3 for the Stranglehold project

Jason Kaehler’s Specialties:

Art Direction, Leadership, motion capture, team building, proprietary tool design, pipeline development, process efficiency analysis, scheduling, risk assesment, business development, prototype development and content outsourcing..

Jason Kaehler’s Experience

Sr. Art Director

Maxis

(Public Company; ERTS; Telecommunications industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

Developing new IP based on the awesome Spore franchise!
Art Director

Midway Amusement Games LLC

(Computer Games industry)

September 2003 — December 2008 (5 years 4 months)

unannounced IP: Art Director
Strangehold : Art Director
Psi-Ops : Animation Director

I feel very fortunate to work with a team of brilliant artists, designers and programmers. I had a great boss and learned a huge amount from my co-workers.
Art Director

3DO

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

2001 — 2003 (2 years )

worked on 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The coolest game that never shipped.
Creative Director / Founder

Osiris Studios

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)

May 1997 — January 2001 (3 years 9 months)

· Build studio from 3 to 35 employees over 4 year period
· Built company to peak gross annual revenue of ~$5M
· Co-developed all original concepts with staff designers
· Oversaw development of numerous proprietary art tools
· Mentor/train/review artists (16 total)
· Work with Producers to develop all schedules and budgets
· Evaluate and approve all hires
· Approved all software purchases (~ $200,000 /year)
Art Director

Zombie VR

(Computer Games industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year )
Character Artist / Ride Designer

Walt Disney Imagineering

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DIS; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

March 1993 — December 1995 (2 years 10 months)

I was a Character Animator on Aladdin Magic Carpet Ride. We worked as pure R&D for about a year, then transitioned into production for second year. The final 6 months i worked as a Ride Designer for the project DisneyQuest. Imagineering is the division of Disney that develops the themeparks, its seperate from Disney Interactive and our while our focus was different, I worked/consulted with DI on the Aladdin PC title.
art lead

Xatrix Entertainment

(Computer Games industry)

1993 — 1995 (2 years )

Jason Kaehler’s Education

California Institute of the Arts

BFA , Major in Computer Animation, minor in Film , September 1988 — June 1992

Activities and Societies:

graduated ‘First in Class’ of 14 students