Shannon Dees

Current

• Adjunct Art Professor at The Guildhall at SMU
• Artist at Bonfire Studios

Past

• Artist at Microsoft Ensemble Studios
• Art Director at Gearbox Software
• Artist at Terminal Reality

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Education

• Kilgore College
• Henderson High School

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Games

Websites

• My Website

Shannon Dees’s Summary

Artist with substantial experience in the video game industry. Focus on environmental asset creation including models, textures, shaders, and minor animation contributions. Strong knowledge of next-gen content creation procedures and practices, with experience using various game engines, recent work experience includes heavy use of Unreal 3.

Shannon Dees’s Specialties:

Standards, procedures, and guidelines setup and deployments, Management of in-house and external outsource art teams, Art production

Shannon Dees’s Experience

• Adjunct Art Professor

  The Guildhall at SMU

  (Educational Institution; Computer Games industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

  I teach art classes at the SMU Guildhall as needed.

• Artist

  Bonfire Studios

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

  I work as an Artist, making art assets for video games.

• Artist

  Microsoft Ensemble Studios

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Games industry)

  June 2006 — January 2009 (2 years 8 months)

  Artist

• Art Director

  Gearbox Software

  (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  May 2004 — June 2006 (2 years 2 months)

  I produced and oversaw production of art assets for video game content.
  
  Responsibilities also included standards, practices and guidelines setup, outsource art house management, task scheduling, research and development deployments, artist training, and creating artist utilities through MaxScripting.
  
  I began with Gearbox on Brothers In Arms: Road to Hill 30 as an artist.
  
  I was then made Architecture Art Lead on Brothers In Arms: Earned in blood.
  
  The last position I served at Gearbox was as Art Director on Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway.

• Artist

  Terminal Reality

  (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  June 2001 — May 2004 (3 years )

  I began work as an artist at Terminal Reality when I joined the BloodRayne team on the first title in that series.
  
  I then later served as interim Art Lead until we filled the position for BloodRayne 2, while also working as an environmental artist.
  
  I also worked as an artist on several games while employed there.
  
  Though most of my work was focused on Bloodrayne and Bloodrayne 2, I also made a range of smaller contributions to 4x4 Evo 2, Blowout, Roadkill and Demonik (very early in it's P.O.C. demo phase).

Shannon Dees’s Education

• Kilgore College

  No Degree , Film/Art , 1993 — 1995

  Wrote/Produced/Directed/Edited radio programs, television programs and film projects for the local college stations
  
  Furthered art education

• Henderson High School

Additional Information

Shannon Dees’s Websites:

• My Website

Shannon Dees’s Interests:

Art tools exploration, Research and development, Constant skill set advancement through self education.

Shannon Dees’s Contact Settings

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