Daniel Staton

• Management and oversight over all aspects of a 500+ employee 3D Art Services company with 6 locations in China and 1 location in Indonesia.
• Starting new studios and building an upper management team; building high-functioning teams for a wide variety of clients; overseeing overall art quality and challenging projects; creating growth plans and targets; overseeing client communication; overseeing the finance department, and the creation of budgets; overseeing HR dept & hiring
• Managed outsourced art production for many top-rated AAA video game titles including Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty Vanguard, Valorant, Horizon Fobidden West, God of War Ragnarok, Last of Us 2, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, and many others.
• Directly involved in high-level client communication

• Managed the 3D Dept, and oversaw every aspect of MB's Shanghai studio, from client interactions, to HR, to 3D pipeline and quality control
• Under my stewardship the studio grew from 8 to 65 employees, and became one of the more well-regarded 3D art outsourcing studios in the industry, with contributions to many of the top-selling AAA titles of that time, including God of War 3, Fallout 3, Bioshock 2, Killzone 2, and others.

• Character Modeler on prestigious video games and cinematics for games like Gun, Hellgate: London, and Fallout 3. In 2006, moved to China to help rehabilitate and grow the studio there

Created concept art and cutscene are for Thief 2 mod: Thief 2X, while finishing my MFA in 3D Art/Animation.

• TD for several shots, vehicle and environment modeling, texture and asset management.

Environment modeler, modeling and texturing terrain and snow cliffs

• Playstation Jak 2 Commercials
• Responsibilities: character modeler, texturer

Character and creature modeling and UV layout

• High-resolution clothing modeling