Travis Eastepp

Past

• Senior Environment Artist at Luxoflux
• Lead Level Builder / Lead 3d Artist at Treyarch
• Owner / Art Director at Next Round Digital

• Artist at Digital Domain
• Artist / Level Designer at Mass Media
• Lead Artist / Project Manager at Viewpoint Digital

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Education

• University of Southern California

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Industry

Computer Games

Travis Eastepp’s Summary

I have a passion for creating stunning environments from real time virtual reality platforms to Video Games to Pre-rendered animations.

My specialty is modeling and I am also a skilled texture and lighting artist. I have done just about all types of modeling from hires models for commercials to real time models for games and business applications. I have modeled off of all sorts of data from conceptual art, Cad data, blueprints and photographs. I am very meticulous about my models and attempt to make them more accurate than is humanly possible. Since my background is in architecture, I have an excellent sense of proportion, scale, and color.

I have strong leadership skills. I have worked in the capacity of lead artist and project manager for several different projects. I enjoy bringing out the best in people and challenging them to create beautiful environments.

I am also technically oriented. I have acted as a go between from the artists to the programmers, expressing the needs of the artists to the programmers and examining current tools for improvements and bug fixes

Games Shipped:
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
James Bond: Quantum of Solace
Spider-Man 3
Ultimate Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Minority Report
Spider-Man 1
Tony Hawk 2X
Triple Play Baseball
Lego Alpha Team
Microsoft Baseball (uncredited)
Vertical Reality (uncredited)
Redneck Rampage (uncredited)

Travis Eastepp’s Specialties:

Master in 3dsMax, proficient in Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, AutoCAD some Maya, Z Brush. Team Leadership, pipeline creation, research and development.

Travis Eastepp’s Experience

• Senior Environment Artist

  Luxoflux

  (Public Company; ATVI; Computer Games industry)

  December 2007 — May 2009 (1 year 6 months)

  Modeling, texturing, uv layout of assets for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen video game for the Xbox 360 and Ps3
  
  Influenced the direction of the project in regards to technical and managerial aspects
  
  Managed efforts to increase onscreen performance and reduce memory overhead through asset optimization and cleanup

• Lead Level Builder / Lead 3d Artist

  Treyarch

  (Public Company; ATVI; Computer Games industry)

  June 2000 — December 2007 (7 years 7 months)

  Oversaw a team of fourteen level builders on the development of James Bond: Quantum of Solace
  
  Interfaced between different departments
  
  Determined outsourcing needs and approved incoming assets·
  
  Developed level building and Prop creation pipelines
  
  Created 3d models from vehicles to weapons to props to environments
  
  Games released: James Bond: Quantum of Solace, Ultimate Spider-Man, Spiderman1,2,3, Minority Report, Tony Hawk 2X, Triple Play Baseball.

• Owner / Art Director

  Next Round Digital

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Animation industry)

  August 1998 — September 2000 (2 years 2 months)

  Freelance / Consulting on a wide range of projects including commercials, architectural animations, forensic animation, photo retouching, web page design and titles for film

• Artist

  Digital Domain

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  May 2000 — July 2000 (3 months)

• Artist / Level Designer

  Mass Media

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

  February 1999 — April 2000 (1 year 3 months)

• Lead Artist / Project Manager

  Viewpoint Digital

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Animation industry)

  September 1996 — August 1998 (2 years )

Travis Eastepp’s Education

• University of Southern California

  B Arch , Architecture , 1990 — 1996

  Activities and Societies:

  President - Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity
  Order of Omega
  Received Senior Recognition awards from both the University and the School of Architecture

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