Neverwinter (Live GaaS)

Cryptic Studios

External Development Manager/XDev Artist:

As XDev Manager, I carried out organizational and planning operations for Cryptic’s Core Art’s external development needs.

Under this role, as well as my previous role as an XDev Artist, I was essential to helping the project achieve our goals by providing collaborative, creative, and strategic solutions focused on delivering consistently high-fidelity artwork while considering scope, budget, and timeline. Some of my contributions included:

• Assisted the Director of Core Art in Managing and maintaining an external art program to bolster the Neverwinter (GaaS) development. Included trust and relationship building, talent identification and acquisition, art testing, resource and packet building, mentoring, teamwork, project and task management, source control building, source control management, source control administration, production, planning and scheduling, scoping, risk assessment, identifying and defining best practices, processes, and pipelines fitting the needs of the project.

• Supported a network of project and studio/centralized artists to facilitate external art partners. Covered art production stages from initial ideation through in-game post-release support. Disciplines include concept art, UI/iconography, animation, skinning, rigging, character art, and environment art.

• Coordinated with interdisciplinary project leadership to establish aesthetic and technical standards. Developed processes and guidelines to uphold them.

• Individual contribution. Aesthetic and technical direction, asset review, paint-overs, green/redlines, modeling skinning, texturing, engine implementation, bug fix, asset polish. 

• Authored several assets to help support the team directly, such as mounts and environment assets. Embedded into Environment Art team to remaster Dungeon content.