Project Art-Director

Horizon: Call of the Mountain
2021 - 2023

As Project AD on this VR title my mission and focus was to bring the beautiful and majestic world of Horizon (PS4, PS5) to the PSVR2, using Unreal Engine 4, at the highest art quality possible.
I oversaw all game art creation, lead all art departments (35+ artists, plus outsourcing partners) and directed all media surrounding this title.

• Daily feedback to all art departments on work in progress, and weekly meetings with art leads to check on progress, blockers, and scheduling

• Directed trailers and marketing assets (edits/shot selection, camera composition, color-correction, finalization).

• Assessed feasibility of schedules and deadlines and evaluated performance of both individual artists and art teams, to support personal growth and company objectives

• Briefed all art departments, lead brainstorming sessions, and curated reference collections (either in documents, presentations, mood boards, or video reference edits)

• Worked closely with Technical Art-Directors and level/asset/shader/VFX artists, to ensure graphical features and visual project goals were achievable in-engine, and managed small multidisciplinary strike teams prototyping gameplay, art-styles, and graphical features

• Directed concept artists to create look-developmental key-art for use as a visual target throughout development.

• Set up bespoke/procedural outsourcing art pipelines, reassessed existing pipelines to spot performance inefficiencies, identifying missing steps, and possibilities for optimization