Rob Adams

Current

Staff Artist at Bungie

Past

Senior Environment Artist at Snowblind Studios
Lead Environment Artist at Naughty Dog Inc.
Lead Artist at Electronic Arts

Lead Artist at Cyclone Studios
Artist at Atari Games Corporation

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Rob Adams’s Summary

- Most recently: Uncharted, Drake's Fortune for PS3, as Lead Environment Artist.

- Shipped 10 successful games over 15 years.

- Great problem-solving ability and attention to detail.

- Passionate about game design.

- Friendly, communicates well with other artists, programmers, and management.

- Very self-motivated. Figures stuff out, then shares the info.

Rob Adams’s Specialties:

3D environments that:
1. Are fun to play through multiple times
2. Look cool and original (mostly original)
3. Squeeze every last drop of performance from the hardware

Rob Adams’s Experience

Staff Artist

Bungie

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

- Building environments for Halo: Reach

- Helping develop tools, pipeline, and production methods

- Managing a group of environment artists
Senior Environment Artist

Snowblind Studios

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

October 2007 — August 2008 (11 months)

Helped to create a new next gen cross-platform IP with an awesome group of industry vets, and a few eager noobs.

Aside from production work, I helped develop better tools, a faster pipeline, and a more scaleable construction approach.
Lead Environment Artist

Naughty Dog Inc.

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

July 2000 — October 2007 (7 years 4 months)

- Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Lead Environment Artist, Modeler, Textures, Level Design & Layout, Scheduling, Reviews)

- JakX Combat Racing PS2 (Environments)

- Jak3 PS2 (Environments)

- Jak2 PS2 (Environments)

- Jak & Daxter PS2 (Environments)
Lead Artist

Electronic Arts

(Public Company; Computer Games industry)

September 1998 — June 2000 (1 year 10 months)

- Need for Speed: Porsche Unleased PC (Project Art Lead, Modeler, Textures)

- Need for Speed: High Stakes PS1 (Track Modeler, Textures)
Lead Artist

Cyclone Studios

(Computer Games industry)

June 1997 — September 1998 (1 year 4 months)

- Groundwave/Bioswarm PS1 (Project Art Lead, Environment/Vehicles Modeler, Textures)
Artist

Atari Games Corporation

(Public Company; Computer Games industry)

August 1993 — March 1997 (3 years 8 months)

- San Francisco Rush, Original Coin-Op (Track modeler, Textures)

- Metal Maniax, Original Coin-Op (Textures, Sprites, HUD)

- Primal Rage, Original Coin-Op (Sprite processing)