Lee Amarakoon

Current

• FX Artist at Bioware Austin

Past

• Level Designer at Gearbox Software
• Level Designer at Gearbox Software
• Level Designer at nFusion Interactive

• Game and Simulation Instructor at Game Design Program, WakeTech Community College
• Lead Artist at Mid Carolina Media
• Marketing Artist at Octagon Entertainment

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Lee Amarakoon’s Summary

Lee Amarakoon’s Specialties:

Knowledge of design, scripting tools, matinee editor, UI tools and particle systems.

Lee Amarakoon’s Experience

• FX Artist

  Bioware Austin

  (Public Company; ERTS; Computer Games industry)

  March 2009 — Present (5 months)

  Working on Star Wars: The Old Republic

• Level Designer

  Gearbox Software

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

  August 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 2 months)

  ALIENS: Colonial Marines
  
  * Responsible for implementing menu interface for single player portion of the game using Unreal UI scene editor.
  * Constructed last 2 levels of single player and 1 multiplayer TDM level.
  * Created particle effects for guns, sentry turrets, bullet impacts, steam, acid blood, blood hits, sparks, etc.

• Level Designer

  Gearbox Software

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

  March 2008 — September 2008 (7 months)

  Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway
  
  * Worked on 4 multiplayer levels.
  * Optimized performance on Xbox 360 and PS3 by exporting each BSP group into 3dsmax to reduce the amount of brushes.
  * Modeled, textured and imported 3dsmax objects and buildings back into Unreal levels.
  * Refined game play and polished visuals while focusing optimization and frame rate.

• Level Designer

  nFusion Interactive

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

  May 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 4 months)

  - Shipped title - Hour of Victory
  
  * Responsible for creating grey map levels with objectives using concept art and overhead layouts.
  * Populated levels with static meshes for 2nd visual art pass.
  * Implemented game menus using Unreal UI scene editor.
  * Created particle effects and matinee sequences in Kismet.

• Game and Simulation Instructor

  Game Design Program, WakeTech Community College

  (Higher Education industry)

  January 2004 — May 2006 (2 years 5 months)

  Continuing Education: Intro to Maya Fundamentals
  
  Evening Classes: Intro to Maya, Advance modeling in Maya, Unreal Tournament 2004 Level Design & MOD creation.
  
  Game Design Workshop: Intro to Unreal Engine 3 using RoboBlitz.
  
  Game Design Workshop: Intro to 3dsmax for game creation.
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• Lead Artist

  Mid Carolina Media

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)

  May 2005 — February 2006 (10 months)

  Shipped title - Ultimate Duck Hunting (PC)
  
  - As lead Artist, managed 4 artists & 1 Level Designer.
  - Developed tutorials for importing models and textures into Torque Engine.
  - Designed UltimateDuckHunting.com
  - Modeling & texturing outdoor environment objects.
  - Designed the User Interface for in-game & menu.

• Marketing Artist

  Octagon Entertainment

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)

  September 2003 — January 2004 (5 months)

  - Developed interactive cdrom presentations for new clients
  - Created game trailers for soon-to-be-released games. Terrorist Takedown, WW2 Tank Commander, Kart 2005 Racing available on GameTrailers.com