Ryan Callahan
Brooklyn,NY
Summary
Environment artist with five years of experience in game development, specializing in real-time rendering with UE5. Successfully contributed to immersive world creation for Remnant II and its DLCs, demonstrating expertise in world-building and asset development. Skilled in managing the art pipeline from initial concepts to final environments, ensuring high-quality deliverables. Strong collaborator with effective communication skills, enhancing team project outcomes.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Environment Artist
Gunfire Games
Austin, Texas
10.2020 - Current
- Working as a strike team leader, I am working to complete whole dungeons with a small team. Including being a point of contact between disciplines in order to deliver a complete gameplay experience.
- Mentoring juniors, assisting with onboarding to the studio, and ensuring that they are empowered to move forward with the company.
- Assisting with outsourced assets, making proxy assets, and working with outsource management to figure out what can be done in-house vs. outsourcing.
- World Builder, responsible for taking a level from a design block, out all the way to final polish.
- Asset Creator, responsible for creating proxy assets, developing final assets, including modeling, texturing, and material authoring. Including being in charge of developing kits and training artists on how to world-build with them.
- Shipped Remnant and all of its DLC.
- Working closely with principals to schedule and manage tasks. Including forming teams to complete tasks.
- Collaborated with designers to establish cohesive visual themes across projects.
3D Generalist
Hi From The Future
Brooklyn, NY
10.2019 - 12.2019
- Worked closely with a small team to create a music video in Unreal Engine.
- I had multiple shots over which I had multi-discipline responsibility, including lighting, modeling, texturing, layout, and camera animation.
- Worked with the creative director and senior artists to solve pipeline issues and develop new workflows with the Unreal Engine.
- Conducted quality checks on 3D assets to ensure visual consistency.
Thesis Film
Vanquish
09.2018 - 05.2019
- I created an original short film with my thesis partner as our final project.
- Main look dev artist for the project, sourcing references, and doing concept sculpts and sketches to figure out the tone and atmosphere of the project.
- Leading R&D of using Unreal Engine for the project, material and asset creation workflow. Also, our animation integration pipeline, final render output pipeline.
- Environment Artist. Creating models and materials to ultimately be used for world-building.
- Co-produced with my thesis partner to source funding for our composer for the project.
- Co-character artist. Worked mostly on the monster character, from concept to final character model.
Intern
Muse Games
New York, New York
06.2018 - 08.2018
- Summer internship working in multiple departments, including playtesting, modeling, texturing, and concept art.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Computer Art
School of Visual Arts
New York (City), NY05-2019
Skills
- Project managing
- Worldbuilding
- Kit bashing pre-existing assets
- Material authoring
- 3D modeling
- Lighting
- Mentoring
- QA and bug fixing
- Project management
- Team leadership
- Workflow optimization
- Modular asset creation
Software
- Maya
- Blender
- Substance Painter
- Unreal Engine
- Photoshop
- Zbrush
- Substance Designer
- Speed Tree
- Substance Sampler
Timeline
Environment Artist
Gunfire Games
10.2020 - Current
3D Generalist
Hi From The Future
10.2019 - 12.2019
Thesis Film
Vanquish
09.2018 - 05.2019
Intern
Muse Games
06.2018 - 08.2018
Bachelor of Arts - Computer Art
School of Visual Arts