Resume

Jim Watson

Principal Technical Artist at Archetype Enterainment

Bend, United States

About

I am a driven Technical Artist who loves solving problems. My goal is to author tools and build pipelines that people, at the very least, find useful if not enjoy using.

Proficient with programs such as Houdini, Substance Designer, Substance Painter, Maya, Photoshop, nDo, Zbrush, xNormal, Unreal Development Kit 3, Unreal Engine 4/5, Knald, Marmoset, mental ray, V-ray, Unity, and Illustrator. I also have experience using Vex, Python, and a little C++.

Skills

Software proficiency

Houdini

Unreal Engine

Python

Maya

Substance 3D Designer

Substance 3D Painter

Photoshop

Marmoset Toolbag

NDO

Quixel Suite

ZBrush

SpeedTree

World Machine

Unity

mental ray

V-Ray

Flash

Illustrator

InDesign

Photoscan

Reel

Productions

- Video Game
  Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
- Year
  2019
- Role
  Technical Artist
- Company
  Respawn Entertainment
- Video Game
  God of War
- Year
  2018
- Role
  Environment/FX Artist
- Company
  Sony Santa Monica

Experience

Principal Technical Artist at Archetype Entertainment
Bend, US
April 2024 - Present
Lead Technical Artist (Background) at Bend Studio
Bend, US
May 2023 - April 2024
Senior Technical Artist at Bend Studio
Bend
May 2022 - May 2023
Tech. Art Mentor at The Mentor Coalition
September 2021 - January 2024
Mentoring artists focusing on procedural workflow and tool generation using Houdini, Unreal and Python.
Senior Technical Artist at Tencent Games
Orange County, CA, United States of America
September 2020 - April 2022
Technical Artist at Respawn Entertainment
Chatsworth, United States of America
April 2018 - September 2020
FX Artist at Sony Santa Monica
Los Angeles
July 2017 - December 2017