Calvin Verhoolen is a senior character artist at Yager Productions GmbH, a Berlin based game studio that just released their first person shooter with strong narrative aspect, Spec Ops: THE LINE. Calvin start working with Yager at 2008, and become senior at 2011, and currently he is working on the unannounced project of Yager. Before there he worked with UK based company Eurocom and Climax working on Silent Hill games and also James Bond series.
Efgeni Bischoff is a freelance 3D artist based on Reutlingen Area, Germany, whose focusing on character and creature creation. He start with game modification on 2003 and work professionally starting at 2005. Since then he have worked on several high profile project for Crytek and many other studios, the titles he have been working on such as Crysis, Crysis 2 and Halo 4 among others.
Before going freelance Efgeni work at Crytek GmbH, based in Frankfurt. He work there for 6 years and contribute to Crysis series. Currently he work as a freelance character artist for Guerrilla Games working on an unannounced project . Below are some of Efgeni Bischoff work on Halo 4 didact ship and some armor sets.
Peter Zoppi is a senior character artist at Treyarch, an Activision studios known for development of few Call of Duty titles, namely the Black Ops series.
As a senior character artist, Zoppi have contribute to many Treyarch games the latest one is Black Ops 2, which he unfortunately haven’t shown what he have done for the game, other games that he work on is the first Black Ops and also James Bond: Quantum of Solace. Before Treyarch, Zoppi worked for another Activision studios, Luxoflux Games, working Kungfu Panda – The Game.
While he have done many amazing character art for games, Zoppi initially work for the film industry for Luma Picture and also Rhythm & Hues, working on many blockbuster movies such as Golden Compass, Underworld: Evolution and Silent Hill: The Movie among others.
Vitaliy Naymushin currently work as a senior character artist at Blizzard entertainment, working on their unannounced next gen MMO. Before that he was employed at id Software, where most of the time he was the only dedicated character artist. He handle most of the character creation pipeline together with the animator, to leverage the character to best quality. He also responsible for the character outsourcing for Rage, and also later involved in Doom 4, another game by id Software.
Vitaliy track record is quite awesome, he has contribute to many games and worked at many prestigious company. Some of the games he have contribute to are Blood Rayne, Enemy Territories Quake War, The Elder Scrolls Oblivion and many other. Below are some of Vitaliy Naymushin’s characters works for Rage
Jefferson Estrabinio currently employed as character artist at Ubisoft Malmo at Sweden. Jeff originally from Philippines, where he work at Ladyluck Digital Media Entertainment, an outsourcing company for many AAA game titles such as Uncharted 3, Medal of Honor: Warfighter and many other. He was also actively freelancing for many games, ORION: Dino Beatdown being one of them.
ORION Dino Beatdown is an indie game by Spiral Game studios, marketed as “class-based dinosaur survival shooter”, it was not a success critically nor commercially. Here are some of Jeff’s work for ORION: Dino Beatdown characters
Chris Bennett is one of the Character Artist at Trion Worlds, colleague to Hai Phan whose work we’ve featured before. Chris is an Australian working in the US, before that he work for Krome Studios and Australia’s THQ, on few game projects such as Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, Star Wars/Clone Wars: Republic Heroes and many other unnanounced/ canceled projects.
Halo 4 Didact is one the most important character in the game, and the man that responsible for the creation of Didact is Kolby Jukes . Currently employed as a senior character artist at 343 Industries a Microsoft Studios working on Halo series, with the latest installment is Halo 4, Kolby live in Kirkland, Washington. He start his career in game industry working on “Wolfenstein” at Raven Software , on the year 2004.
After that he goes freelancing for many studios, working on as many as 20 game titles and various CG related work. Then he return to game industry to work for Bioware as principal artist, for the critically acclaimed game Mass Effect 2 and 3.
Royal Sybrandt is a lead artist working for Liquid Development an outsourcing company that contribute for 343 Industries game Halo 4. Royal works on few Halo 4 armor sets for the multiplayer part of the game. Below are some of his hard surface low poly work and also there are few hipoly mesh of the armor set for baking purpose.
Sam Yang currently employed as a character artist at Riot Games working on League of Legend, arguably the most popular MOBA game on the planet today. Previously he work at Blizzard at a very young age, 21 year old, not many people achieve that, especially with Blizzard. Sam focuses on 3d modelling, texturing, and digital sculpting but also capable of animating, rendering, lighting, rigging, tracking, match moving, and dynamic/particle fx.
Sze Jones currently lead character artist at Naughty Dog, Sony Computer Entertainment Studio. One of her latest works are the Uncharted 3 female characters and also the upcoming PS3 exclusive, Last of Us. Before that she was the character modeling supervisor and senior artist at Blur Studio, some of her work there are Lara Croft for Tomb Raider Underworld; Beatrice for Dante’s Inferno; Anders and Sebrina for Halo Wars; Twilek, Jedi Consular and Bounty Hunter for Star Wars: The Old Republic.
