John Hedges
6 Flint Hollow, Chinnor, Oxfordshire,OX39 4JT
Tel: - 01844 353356
Email: - hedgeart@googlemail.com

Objective

To obtain a position as a Junior 3d Artist or enviroment artist within a videogame studio that prides itself with creativity as well as a place where artists like myself can continue to gain valuable experience and grow to become as good as they can get.

Program Knowledge

Art Related Work Experience

HL Studios/ E-S-P Ltd - January 2006 – September 2008
3d Artist – Full time

• Worked closely with a small team of designers, illustrators and
  programmers to create educational software for a variety of different
  industries and publishers.
  
• Worked as an understudy to another 3d artist for 1 year then took over from him to become the only 3d artist within the company, meaning all 3d related projects, client enquires, possible deadlines and potential jobs had to be evaluated by myself.
• When a project called for it I had to hire and negotiate pay with freelancers, briefing them and give them feedback on their work against the projects objectives and the objectives set by myself and make sure they hit the deadlines of the project.
• When required I was asked to help out in other areas of product development, this included fixing and making changes to product interfaces, adjusting artwork for either print or digital use and occasionally helping out with administration and management tasks.
  
• Had to help test our products at various stages of development, this included checking that bugs had been fixed against a pre supplied bug list and so called ‘destruction testing’ which involved trying to break the product or find and report new bugs.
  
• Had to adhere to strict deadlines.
  

Mod and other Art Experience

Sekultara (2009 - present)

• Currently working as a 3d artist and Designer for a browser based Sci-Fi stratergy game called 'Sekultara'. which is being developed by 'ZiCorp Studios Ltd'

Invasion Defender (2009 -2010)

• Worked with a friend as half of a two man team to create a tower defence game for Xbox:Indie Games which was released in January 2010.
• I created all art assets including towers,units, levels and some UI elements.
• Playtested and adjusted stats of towers and units to get the ideal balance in gameplay difficulty.
• Liased with my friend to solve problems, fix bugs and give feedback.

Modelled and Textured a Street object pack for online distribution (2010)

• Created 12 Street related Objects and released as an object pack for online distribution.
• Created Two different packs, one was focused on older generation engines (diffuse maps only) the other was current/next-gen engines utalising spec and normal maps.
• All normal maps were generated from high-polygon models and with the aid of 'Xnormal.'
• Textures averaged 512x512 with a couple at 1024x1024 and smaller.

Textured a modern weapons pack for online distribution (2005)

• Textured 5 main weapons and several attachments for use by indie developers for there own games.
• Texture resolution done at 512x512 and attachments 256x256. diffuse only.

(models done by Nermin Bajagilovic)

Non Art Related Work Experience

LeisureLodgegifts Ltd – July 2009 – Present
General assistant – part- time

Drinks to Go – October 2008 – Febuary 2009
Sales assistant - Part-time (0 hour contract)

Ritual Entertainment – August 2005
Tester – 3 days (unpaid)

• Testing an unannounced (now cancelled) title by Ritual, which involved reporting back to the test director and carrying out tasks set by him, i.e. establishing how difficult or easy a certain part of a level is.

CO-OP - September 2004 - January 2006
Sales assistant – Part time

Achievements

• Completed a 3 day intensive training course in low-poly modeling led by former lead Codemasters artist Rod Cleasby at Central UK training.
  
• Completed a 2 day intensive training course in ‘textures for games’ led by Rod Cleasby.
  
• Had artwork featured in an article written by Rod Cleasby in the official Soho shorts festival magazine.
  
• Awarded the ‘Tom Martin Art Award for Personal Development and Achievement’ at Lord Williams school (2004)

Education

Open University

· Passed a level 1 course in ‘Personal Finance’ at the Open
University. (2007)

Lord William’s School (1997 – 2004)

A-Levels

Art (C grade)
Product Design (D grade)

GCSEs (At C or above)

Art (C grade)
Graphics (C grade)
History (C grade)
English language (C grade)
Science Double award (C grade)

About Me

My main interest is of course in art. I enjoy doing art work in my spare time, if fate allows it I try and attend a 'Life drawing' class every week, which im also using to try out different techneques and medias. I also constantly aim to be as good as I can be and this is something I hope I can achieve in the future by working with and around a team/teams of great and talented artists.

I enjoy playing video games and play all kinds of games. Flight simulators, shooters and strategy games being my favorite genres but will play just about anything as long as its fun and I have fun playing it.

Aside from art and video games I enjoy studying history, particularly all aspects of World War 2, the battles, the machines, the weaponry and the events that shaped the world in that era. Though World War 2 is my most enjoyable time period to study I enjoy looking at other aspects of history such as the Romans……this can be influenced by games I play, books I read and TV programs I watch.

Another pastime is going out and meeting fellow artists and networking with people that have a similar mind set and ambitions as me. This has taken me on a couple of trips to America where I met a whole bunch of video game developers from the Dallas area as well as the London area.

I also play golf and enjoy keeping up with the football over a beer.

MISC

• Full UK driving License with no points
  
• Valid UK passport

References Available upon Request