J. Steve Merghart
San Diego, CA, USA
Professional Experience
Sony
Online Entertainment
Sr.
Character & Environment Artist
March
'09 to August '13
Created
concept art, high res & low poly 3D models, and textures for
characters, creatures, props, and environments on the titles,
“FreeRealms”, “EverQuest2”, and the recently announced
“EverQuestNext”.
BottleRocket
Entertainment
Lead
Character & Environment FX Artist
November
'07 to February '09
Modeled
and animated damage FX & gore states in NamcoBandai's
“Splatterhouse” for the PS3 and Xbox360 in addition to creating
and implementing miscellaneous in-game character and environmental
FX. Directed and scheduled the FX
team in the creation and implementation of character and
environmental FX.
Sony
Computer Entertainment
3D
Character and Environment Artist
June
'05 to November '07
Texture
mapped characters and modeled environmental game assets for the Sony
PSP project, “Neopets PetPet Adventure: the Wand of Wishing”.
Provided concept art, modeling,
rigging, and texture mapping of characters for in-house development
and game proposals.
BottleRocket
Entertainment
3D
Character Artist
November
'02 to June '05
Modeled,
rigged, and texture mapped playable, NPC, cinematic, and ambient
characters for Sony’s PS2 title, “Rise of the Kasai”. Provided
concept art and design elements for in-game and cinematic characters,
game proposals, and company related assets.
Sony
Computer Entertainment
3D
Character Artist
September
'98 to November '02
Modeled
and rigged playable, NPC, cinematic,
and ambient characters for the Sony PS2 title, “the Mark of Kri”. Provided
concept art and design elements for in-game and cinematic characters,
game proposals, and company related assets.
Freelance
Character Design
SnapTV
Games
March
'04 to November '06
Provided
concept art and production assets for the interactive DVD titles,
"Eco Rangers: Animal Adventure" and "Guess How Much I
Love You".
Midway
Games
August
'05 to October '05
Created
character concept art for playable monsters in the PS2/Gamecube title
"Rampage: Total Destruction"
Game
Credits
EverQuestNext
(in production)
EverQuest2
(2011)
FreeRealms
(2009)
Splatterhouse
(2009)
Guess
How Much I Love You (2007)
Rampage:
Total Destruction (2006)
Xiaolin
Showdown (2006)
NeoPets:
the Wand of Wishing (2006)
Eco
Rangers: Animal Adventures (2006)
Rise
of the Kasai (2005)
the
Mark of Kri (2002)
Software
Experience
Maya
by Autodesk
zBrush
by Pixologic
Photoshop
by Adobe
Headus
UV Layout tool
Havok
Physics Systems by Havok
Gamebryo
by Emergent Technologies
AlienBrain
Studio by Avid Technologies
Perforce
Revision Control
