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ABOUT ME

   Hello! My name is Ryan, I am 45 years old, I live in Redmond, Washington and I've been an Environment Artist in the videogame industry for over 21 years. Since 2004 on the original Xbox, I have worked on multiple games across different game consoles and art disciplines and have been an Environment Art lead on multiple projects and love building an efficient and effective team. 

 

My passion and joy has always been World Building natural, fantasy, and sci-fi game environments. I take my love of nature and infuse it into the worlds I create. I love to bring my excitement and passion of exploring new worlds and invoking wonder and immersions to players.

   I have a strong ability to quickly and creatively visualize an environment from beginning grayblock to a fully completed and thought-out world. I am well disciplined in leading, multitasking, efficiently organizing, and polishing the maps work on. I have worked on a wide range of art styles from realistic to stylized. I have been a generalist at many studios I've been at and have a wide knowledge base involved with art production. 

SKills

Software

  • ​Team Leadership and management

  • World Building - Grayblocking Layout Set dressing

  • Terrain Generation (heightmap, megatexture)

  • High poly organic and hard surface modeling

  • Low poly modeling

  • Stylized and Realistic modeling/texturing

  • Props (static and destructible)

  • PC, Console, and VR experience

  • LODs, collision, performance improvements

  • Prototyping

  • Confluence Documentation & Management

  • Outsourcing Management & Integration

  • Maya

  • Zbrush / Mudbox

  • Photoshop / Quixel

  • Substance Designer/Painter

  • World Machine/ World Creator/ Gaea

  • Unreal 4 and 5

  • Unity

  • Hammer/Source

  • Simplygon

  • Marmoset Toolbag/ Keyshot

  • Perforce, Jira, Confluence, Miro

  • PureRef

GAME Titles

  • Exodus (present, PC, PS5, Xbox) 

  • Creature Crew VR (2025, Oculus)

  • Raccoon Lagoon Anniversary VR(2024)

  • Witchblood re-release VR (2024, Oculus)

  • AAA D&D Open World RPG (2023, PC, PS5)

  • Raccoon Lagoon VR (2019, Oculus)

  • Project Excalibur (2018, PC)

  • Anchors in the Drift (2016, PC, Mobile)

  • Unannounced Projects (2014/2015, Xbox)

  • Hybrid (XBLA)

  • Ironman 2 (Xbox 360, PS3)

  • Golden Axe Beast Rider (Xbox 360, PS3)

  • Final Fight Streetwise (Xbox)

  • America's Army (PS2, Xbox)

  • Informant (US NAVY, PC)

  • ManSim (US ARMY, PC)

Work Experience

  • Archetype Entertainment (January 2026- Present)

  • Meta (November 2025 - January 2026)

  • Hidden Path Entertainment (August 2018 - June 2025)

  • Wargaming Seattle (May 2016 - May 2018)

  • 5TH Cell Media (May 2010 - March 2016)

  • Sega Studios (December 2006 - April 2010)

  • Secret Level (December 2004 - December 2006)

FAvorite Games

  • Subnautica series

  • Battlefield series

  • Dead Space series

  • MS Flight Simulator

  • Marvel Rivals

  • X-COM series

  • Dyson Sphere Program

  • Rome Total War

  • Secret of Mana

  • Chrono Trigger

  • Final Fantasy Tactics

  • Megaman 2

  • River City Ransom

  • Master of Orion 2

  • Sim City 4

  • Jurassic World Evolution

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PAssions

  • Gaming 

  • Retro game collecting

  • Aviation and Flight Sims

  • Sci-Fi and Fantasy

  • Oceanic and Stylized Art

  • Fishing

  • Aquariums

  • Astronomy

  • Ghostbusters

  • TMNT

  • Marvel (Punisher, Wolverine, X-Men)

  • Star Wars

  • PREDATOR

  • ALIENS

  • Lord of the Rings

  • Military Hardware and Politics

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