3D Artist at Bungie Studio
Greater Seattle Area
- Current
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- CSG 3D Artist at Bungie Studios
- Past
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- 3D Artist at WorldForge
- Environment Artist at Turn10
- 3D Animator/Artist at Sun Microsystems
- 3D Artist - Texture and Modeling at SolutionsIQ / Radiant Machine
- Texture Artist at Wildfire Games
- 3D Generalist at OpenFrag
- Designer at Kaper II
- Motion Designer at SprocketHeads
- Production Artist at Aadland Marketing
- Education
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- Portland Community College
- University of Alaska Anchorage
- Lewis and Clark State College
- High School
- High School
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Jay-r Kalugin’s Summary
Creative, enthusiastic and professional 3D artist with an excellent grasp of the latest creative tools and proven problem-solving skills. An achievement-driven, responsible individual who is committed whole-heartedly to work.
Currently at Turn10 as an environment artist specializing in modeling and texturing for Forza3. Technologically savvy and have experience using a wide variety of 3D applications including: 3D Studio Max, Maya, Blender, Zbrush and XSI. Main interests are in modeling, texturing, environments and characters.
Jay-r Kalugin’s Specialties:
3D Modeling, UV, Texturing, MaxScript, Jscript.
Jay-r Kalugin’s Experience
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CSG 3D Artist
Bungie Studios
(Entertainment industry)
September 2009 — Present (3 months)
Working on Halo Reach project as a hard surface assets as a 3D modeler and texture artist.
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3D Artist
WorldForge
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
April 2003 — September 2009 (6 years 6 months)
An open source MMORPG gathering.
Conceptualized, modeled, textured and animated humanoid characters. Conceptualized, modeled, textured and created various game assets. Modified and created texture templates. Generated world environment assets. -
Environment Artist
Turn10
(Entertainment industry)
May 2008 — May 2009 (1 year 1 month)
Level 2: 3D environment track artist at Forza Motorsports. Utilizing 3D Studio Max, Maxscript, Java and Python.
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3D Animator/Artist
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)
August 2008 — November 2008 (4 months)
Generated new interior and exterior environment art which included; Modeling, texturing, python scripting, XML editing, generating diffuse, normal and specular maps.
First phase was to generate content and export out of Blender3D in X3D file format.
Second phase was to export out of XSI in to Collada file format.
Python was used to speed the iteration process of exporting content and world building.
Tools used: Blender3D, X3D, XSI|Softimage, Collada, Photoshop Wonderland. -
3D Artist - Texture and Modeling
SolutionsIQ / Radiant Machine
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Design industry)
September 2007 — June 2008 (10 months)
Currently working on the 4th Edition of Dungeons and Dragons.
-Textured armor assets
- Modeled weapon props
-Character modeling included: refactoring typology, generating high-res models for normal maps and ambient occlusion maps.
-Genre: Fantasy RPG
- Zbrush 3.0, Photoshop, XSI and 3DsMax -
Texture Artist
Wildfire Games
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)
September 2006 — August 2007 (1 year )
Real time strategy game based around Age of Kings.
Textured hero's and props.
Modeled game props -
3D Generalist
OpenFrag
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)
April 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 5 months)
Broken Alliance demo.
Textured and animated heros. -
Designer
Kaper II
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Automotive industry)
February 2004 — August 2007 (3 years 7 months)
Automotive manufacturing company.
Conceptualized, designed and executed all collateral material. Interfaced directly with marketing, sales, and engineering staff to bring projects to fruition. Generated packaging, catalogs, point of purchase displays and trade show materials. Solidified the corporate identity. Generated corporate instructional videos that included; shooting, editing, motion graphics and audio -
Motion Designer
SprocketHeads
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Animation industry)
December 1999 — June 2000 (7 months)
Alaska's premier film boutique.
Generated motion graphics using vector and bitmap images.
Video editing.
Web and graphic design. -
Production Artist
Aadland Marketing
(Design industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year )
Jay-r Kalugin’s Education
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Portland Community College
2002 — 2004
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University of Alaska Anchorage
none , Journalism , 1996 — 1998
- Activities and Societies:
- Russian Club
Newspaper Publication
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Lewis and Clark State College
None , Visual Communication , 1995 — 1995
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High School
1989 — 1993
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High School
1989 — 1993
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Jay-r Kalugin’s Websites:
Jay-r Kalugin’s Interests:
3D Art, Modeling, UV, Content Management, MaxScript, Jscript
Jay-r Kalugin’s Honors:
3 Bonnie Awards
Jay-r Kalugin’s Contact Settings
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- new ventures
- job inquiries
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