Joseph Drust. Design Skills. Computer Skills CHARACTER ARTIST. Pittsboro, NC mobile

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1 Joseph Drust CHARACTER ARTIST Pittsboro, NC Joseph Drust is an artist residing near the small town of Pittsboro, North Carolina. He graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Game Design. Joseph has over ten years of experience working in the video game industry as a character artist with a focus on modeling and sculpting. He has created character assets for games including Ghost Recon, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, Ben 10 Alien Force, and Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon. piggyson@gmail.com mobile Presently, Joseph is an Artist/Creative Development Manager with Pixologic, Inc: The Makers of ZBrush. Currently In his free time Joseph teaches online classes for kitbashes vinyl toys, and experiments with 3D Rapid Prototyping and scanning technologies. Professional Skills: Design Skills Character Design, 3D Sculpting, 3D modeling, Content Management, UVW Mapping, Character Rigging, Pipeline Efficiency/Creation Computer Skills ZBrush, KeyShot, 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, Quixel Suite, Mudbox, xnormal, Headus UV Layout, Marvelous Designer, Agisoft, Knald, Illustrator, Painter, Imageready, Flash, Dreamweaver, Windows OS, Mac OSX, DOS. Employment History

2 Artist/Creative Development Manager Pixologic, Inc Pittsboro, NC Oct Present Releases: ZBrush 4R7(OSX)(WIN) Lead Character Artist/Senior Character Artist Ubisoft Cary, NC Aug Oct 2013 Shipped Titles: Ghost Recon Future Soldier(360)(PS3) The Crew(PS4)(Xbone)

3 Senior Character Artist Vicious Cycle Software Morrisville, NC Jun Jul 2010 Shipped Titles: Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon (360)(PS3) - Senior Character Artist (Character Modeler, Texturer, Rigger for Characters.) Despicable Me: The Game (PS2)(PSP)(WII) - Senior Character Artist (Lowpoly Modeler, Texturer, Rigger for Characters.) Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond (Xbox Live Arcade) - Senior Character Artist (Lowpoly Modeler, Texturer, Rigger for Characters.) Ben 10: Alien Force (PS2)(PSP)(WII) - Senior Character Artist (Character Modeler, UI Support)

4 Character Coordinator/Senior Character Artist Red Storm Entertainment (Ubisoft) Morrisville, NC Jun Jun 2007 Shipped Titles: America's Army: True Soldiers (360) - Character Coordinator/Artist (Head character modeler, in charge of managing character art assets.) Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (360) - Character Artist (Character modeler for enemy and multiplayer character art assets.) Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike (Xbox) - Character Artist (Head character modeler, in charge of managing character art assets.) Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (Xbox) - Character Artist (Worked on multiplayer models for the game.) Ravenshield (PC) - Cinematic Environment Artist (Created hi-res geometry for intro/outro movies.) Ghost Recon: Island Thunder (PC)(Xbox) - Character Artist (Created characters, weapons, vehicles, LOD's, and attachments.) The Sum of All Fears (PC) - Character Artist (Created characters, weapons, LOD's, and attachments.) Ghost Recon: Desert Siege (PC)(Xbox) - Character Artist (Created characters, weapons, vehicles,

5 LOD's, and attachments.) Ghost Recon (PC)(Xbox) - Character Artist (Created characters, weapons, vehicles, LOD's, and attachments.) Other Experience ZBrushWorkshops Instructor, Designed and instructed ten week course, "Advanced Character Creation for Games" in Spring-Summer Founding Instructor for Games Arts Institute. NC State College of Design Guest Lecturer, Instructed students on ZBrush for use in design. Savannah College of Art and Design Guest Lecturer, Presented at SCAD's "GDX Workshops" on character design in the game industry. McFarlane Toys Contract Artist, Digitally sculpted two figures for toys released in September 2013.

6 Digital Tutors Instructor, "Creating Long Hair Using FiberMesh in ZBrush" in Fall Hunt Country Jewelers Onsite Instructor and Consultant, Worked with Hunt Country Jewelers to integrate ZBrush into their current pipeline for jewelry creation. Helped in generating water-tight meshes for 3D printing. ECU Innovation Design Labs Contract Artist, Digitally recreated a smaller version of the Special Warfare Memorial Statue (Bronze Bruce) for the US Army Special Operations Command located in Fort Bragg, NC. Guest Lecturer, Instructed students on ZBrush for Jewelry applications and the process of character creation in video games. Hopper Cummings, PLLC Contract Artist, Designed and created corporate identity including business cards, signage, and digitally sculpted 3D sign.

7 Pixologic, Inc ZBrush 3.5: Tutorial Document Outsource Artist (Created a 150 page tutorial and creature model for shipment with ZBrush 3.5.) Pixologic ZClassroom "Creating Military Assets" (Created a series of 18 videos covering practical functionality using ZBrush.) Demo Artist for Siggraph 2012 and Siggraph 2013 Beta Tester ZBrush Certified Instructor Certified instructor for Pixologic's ZBrush Education BFA Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah, GA BFA in Computer Art with a concentration in Game Design Joseph Drust piggyson@gmail.com mobile