Lou Holsten

Current

• UI Artist at Microsoft (Corestaff)

Past

• 3D Artist at Self Employed
• Character Artist at Cranky Pants Games
• Character Artist at iBase Games

• 3D Artist at Ballena Technologies
• 3D Artist at Corona Leonis Entertainment Inc.

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Education

• Digipen Institute of Technology

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Games

Websites

• My Website

Lou Holsten’s Experience

• UI Artist

  Microsoft (Corestaff)

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  May 2009 — Present (7 months)

  Working at Microsoft Game Studios on an unannounced 360 title.

• 3D Artist

  Self Employed

  (Computer Games industry)

  September 2006 — May 2009 (2 years 9 months)

  Worked on a variety of games including:
  
  Harmonix - Guitar Hero 2 (PS2, Xbox360)
  Flagship Studios - Hellgate: London (PC)
  Harmonix - Rock Band (Xbox360, PS3)
  The Collective - Dirty Harry (Xbox360, PS3)
  Gearbox Software - Borderlands (Xbox360, PS3, PC)
  Gearbox Software - Aliens: Colonial Marines (Xbox360, PS3, PC)
  Lionhead Studios - Fable 2 (Xbox360)
  Blue Omega - Damnation (?)
  WildFire llc - CthulhuTech (Tabletop)

• Character Artist

  Cranky Pants Games

  (Computer Games industry)

  April 2006 — September 2006 (6 months)

  -Character Artist on Destroy All Humans 3 (Xbox360, PS3)
  -Creation of Next Gen Character models
  -Normal map, occlusion map, and color map creation

• Character Artist

  iBase Games

  (Computer Games industry)

  January 2006 — April 2006 (4 months)

  -Character Artist on Sam Suede: Undercover Exposure
  -Contracted for next-gen character design and modeling
  -Normal map, color map, and occlusion map creation

• 3D Artist

  Ballena Technologies

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

  August 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 5 months)

  -Modeled and textured sports stadiums and racetracks to exact scale based on blueprints and video footage.
  -Made numerous flash banners for sport teams' official websites to display

• 3D Artist

  Corona Leonis Entertainment Inc.

  (Computer Games industry)

  2003 — 2004 (1 year )

Lou Holsten’s Education

• Digipen Institute of Technology

  3D Computer Animation

Additional Information

Lou Holsten’s Websites:

• My Website

Lou Holsten’s Groups:

•    Game Developers
•    Friends of Harmonix Music
•    polycount