About

Senior Vehicle
Development Artist

I've spent 9 years making vehicles and hard-surface assets for games, VR and AR, chasing real-world visual fidelity while staying within real-time performance budgets.

Today I set vehicle art standards and quality specifications for an 11-person vehicle team. I coordinate across nine disciplines, from vehicle dynamics to VFX, mentor the team, and step in as team lead when needed.

LOCATION Leamington Spa, UK

Experience

Senior Vehicle Development Artist

Lighthouse Games

2 years · Current

Define vehicle art quality standards and specifications, signed off by cross-discipline leadership.
Acting as vehicle team lead during manager absences; mentoring the full vehicle art team.
Lead build reviews with the CEO and senior leadership; deliver workflow seminars to outsource vendors, including an on-site vendor audit in Vietnam.

Environment Artist

Climax Studios (formerly Playboss Interactive)

3 years

Led look-dev for vehicle and environment art, working with clients including Unity and Build A Rocket Boy.
Led small artist teams, wrote job specs and interviewed candidates; built Nanite-ready assets in Unreal Engine 5.

Vehicle Artist

Simbin Studios UK

1 year

Owned quality control for every vehicle entering GTR3 (Xbox / PC / PS4), including outsourced art.
Rigging, UVs, driver animation, materials and in-engine implementation across the roster.

3D Artist

Bloc Digital

3 years

Led art on the Rolls-Royce VR Trainer, the largest VR training project Bloc had delivered.
End-to-end 3D for iOS, Android and PC apps for Rolls-Royce, Siemens and Lubrizol.

Selected Projects

AAA

Unannounced title Lighthouse Games · NDA
Minds Eye Build A Rocket Boy · PC/PS5
Exodus Archetype Entertainment · PC/PS5

AA

GTR3 Xbox / PC / PS4

Other

Skyblivion Mod

VR / AR / Mobile

Rolls-Royce XWB Trainer VR
Siemens Trainer VR
Rolls-Royce Trent 700 Educational App AR
Lubrizol educational apps AR

Skills & Tools

Vehicle Art & Content

Hard-surface modelling & sculpting: vehicles, weapons, props
Optimisation for real-time games, VR and AR
Procedural and custom texture creation
PBR shader creation, plus a solid grounding in stylised techniques

Standards & Mentoring

Defining vehicle art quality standards & creative direction
Cross-discipline coordination across 9 departments
Mentoring and acting as team lead

Software

Proficient

Maya
3ds Max
ZBrush
Substance Painter
Substance Designer
Photoshop
Unreal Engine 4/5
Unity

Knowledgeable

Perforce
Corona Renderer
Topogun
Plastic SCM
Git
Jira

Senior VehicleDevelopment Artist