Experience

• Senior 3D Modeller at Steelcase Inc.

  Cluj-Napoca, RO

  April 2026 - Present

  - Full-time/ Hybrid work
  
  - 3DS Max hard-surface modelling for real-time environments

  Software: 3DS Max, PTC Creo

• Senior Character Artist at Tibi Neag Freelance

  Cluj-Napoca, RO

  March 2026 - Present

  - Fully Remote/ B2B Contract & Freelance work

  - Freelance work on a variety of projects, from AAA game character art, to mobile character art, to VFX characters to marketing/ advertising in a variety of styles, from highly realistic to stylised.

  Software: Unreal Engine 5, ZBrush, Maya, X-Gen, Marvelous Designer, Substance Painter, Photoshop, Marmoset Toolbag

• Senior Character Artist at Build A Rocket Boy

  Guildford, GB

  January 2023 - December 2025

  - Worked as a Senior Character Artist on Everywhere, MindsEye (PC, PS, X-Box) & other AAA titles.
  
  - Everywhere - stylised community game, build & play with others in a shared world.
  
  - MindsEye - hyper-realistic story-driven, futuristic, action-adventure AAA game.
  
  - Successfully launched the AAA title - MindsEye while working at Build A Rocket Boy.
  
  - Created over 30+ stylised complete game characters for Everywhere from high-poly to textured game models that were skinned & rigged in Maya for Unreal Engine 5.
  
  - Created several realistic character models, clothing items & props for MindsEye.
  
  - Software: Unreal 5, Maya, Zbrush, Marvelous Designer, Substance Painter, Photoshop, P4V, JIRA, Miro, Confluence
  
  - MindsEye trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVJGk2mvPI4
  
  - Everywhere trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90FNVadJP6s

• Lead Character Artist at Jagex

  Guildford, GB

  October 2022 - January 2023

  - Worked as a Lead Character Artist on RuneScape: Dragonwilds
  
  - Provided line management to the character art team, was responsible for the delivery of quality character art.
  
  - Successfully launched the first playable milestone of the AA title RuneScape Dragonwilds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNUllLcuZVM
  
  - Contributed towards the character art production pipeline.
  
  - Reviewed assets to maintain consistent quality and provided feedback & critique.
  
  - Software: Unreal, Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter, Photoshop, Perforce, JIRA, Confluence, Miro, ShotGrid

• Senior Character Artist at NaturalMotion Ltd

  Guildford, GB

  April 2021 - September 2022

  - Worked as a Senior Character Artist at BossAlien/ NaturalMotion/ Zynga/ TakeTwo
  
  - Created over 20+ stylised characters for the successfully launched multi-platform title Star Wars Hunters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdiTie_JZPQ
  
  - Character modeling, sculpting, texturing and shading using a stylized PBR workflow in Unreal Engine.
  
  - Created facial blend shapes for multiple humanoid & creature like characters.
  
  - Collaborated with the Star Wars Hunters concept art, technical art, animation and marketing teams to coordinate the final delivery of the characters I created.
  
  - Helped junior colleagues through the character creation pipeline.
  
  - Provided feedback to outsourcing partners.

  Software used: Maya, ZBrush, Keyshot, Photoshop, Unreal Engine, Substance Painter, Perforce, JIRA, Notion, Miro, Confluence

• Character Artist at Supermassive Games

  Guildford, GB

  November 2018 - April 2021

  - Worked as a Character Artist at Supermassive Games
  
  - Successfully launched the first four AAA games from the The Dark Pictures Anthology
  
  - Created realistic, photo-real characters for AAA titles on multiple platforms that met art direction requirements whilst adhering to technical restrictions.
  
  - Used production design art packs and concept art to create highly detailed character models.
  
  - Defined optimal workflows for character assets generation.
  
  - High-end character modelilng, sculpting and shading using the PBR workflow in Unreal Engine.
  
  - Worked on the first four Dark Pictures Anthology titles: Man of Medan (2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQvo4-Ly-sA, Little Hope (2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu8mT6rUMt4, House Of Ashes (2021) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBZgZdC989c, The Devil in Me (2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn5dK65VugY
  
  
  
  Software used: Maya, ZBrush, Photoshop, Unreal Engine, Substance Painter, Marvelous Designer, JIRA, Perforce

• Character Artist at Gameloft

  Cluj Napoca, RO

  January 2016 - October 2018

  - Worked as a Character Artist at Gameloft
  
  - Successfully launched the iOS/ Android/ Windows title: Iron Blade in May 2017.
  
  - Created over 30+ stylised characters, armours & weapons for Gameloft's Iron Blade title.
  
  - Iron Blade trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJuZbITFDFw
  
  - Character modeling, sculpting, texturing and shading using a stylized PBR workflow in the Gameloft proprietary engine.
  
  - Created the complete appearance of a 3D game character at the quality required by the next-gen mobile market (Apple iPhone, Android, Nintendo Switch).
  
  - Created the textures, optimized the geometry of the character using the in-house tools to export and check the result in-game.

  Software: Zbrush, XNormal, Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, Substance Painter, Proprietary Engine, Marmoset Toolbag, Marvelous Designer, JIRA, Tortoise SVN
  

• Character Artist at Tibi Neag Freelance

  Cluj Napoca, RO

  July 2012 - October 2018

  - Portfolio: https://tibineag.artstation.com/
  
  - Worked as a Freelance Character Artist from July 2012 until October 2018
  
  - Worked on a variety of projects, from 2D illustrations to 3D game characters to 3D print ready models.
  
  - Successfully launched the "Counter Assault Forces" mobile title as a contract 3D Character Artist for Ovi-Lex Software, a title for which I created several modern soldiers from concept to skinned & rigged game models in 3DS Max for Unity.

  Software: Unity, 3D Studio Max, Zbrush, Marvelous Designer, V-Ray, Ornatrix, Mudbox, Keyshot, XNormal, Photoshop, Substance Painter, Marmoset Toolbag
  

• 3D Artist at Steelcase Inc.

  Cluj Napoca, RO

  October 2013 - April 2015

  - Worked as a 3D Artist & Render Artist at Steelcase
  
  - Modeled complex high-poly Steelcase furniture products that closely follow advanced Pro Engineer CAD models using 3DS Max.
  
  - Modeled, UV mapped and textured low-poly Steelcase assets for Unity and Unity based web platforms.
  
  - Rendered Steelcase high-poly products using V-Ray 3.0 for different uses: beauty renders, 360 viewer
  
  renders, close-up & detail renders.
  
  - Created V-Ray materials with a high degree of realism as requested by the corporate standard.

  Software: V-Ray, Photoshop, Pro-Engineer, 3D Studio Max, Unity, Windchill, ProEngineer