Xavier Garcia – theragingspaniard @ gmail.com – LinkedIn

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Current Client Work

Lab Zero Games

• 3D Environment Artist on Indivisible

Armor Games

• Art Direction and full art production on i saw her standing there

Studio Experience

Lead Artist Spry Fox, San Bruno, CA. November 2016 – May 2017

• Complete visual overhaul, from 2D to 3D, for their Co-Op MMO Steambirds Alliance
• Concepted, modeled and lit vast majority of 3D assets
• Together with engineering, created an easy to use art pipeline for content creation and implementation in Unity
• Worked with studio heads on branding, marketing and gameplay ideas

Art Director Jam City, Palo Alto, CA. May 2015 – August 2016

• Shipped Alpha: Tasty Town
• Project visualization from the inception stage, following up all the way to production
• Manage an internal art team of 6 people plus contractors
• Direct, budget and manage multiple international Outsource Production teams
• Produce presentation decs for executive meetings and sales pitches
• Create Style Guides for the internal and external teams to follow

Art Director/Lead Artist KIWI, Palo Alto, CA. January 2013 – May 2015

• Shipped: Heroes: Islands of Adventure, Westbound, Enemy Lines, Shipwrecked, Age of Espers
• Establish Visual Direction, Brand Identity and Production Guidelines for multiple simultaneous projects
• Lead Art Tool development for in-house engine with off shore team in Bangalore
• Managed several internal teams of 5-10 people plus contractors
• Manage multiple international Outsource Production teams
• Establish strong correlation between Art and Game Design

Senior Artist Gameloft, New York City, NY. August 2011 – June 2012

• Visual Development for Ice Age and Zombiewood
• Worked with Outsource Production in Paris and China
• Created concepts for characters, environments, vehicles, icons and props

Senior Artist OMGPOP, New York City, NY. Dec. 2010 – August 2011

• Production Art for Draw Something, Pool World Tour and Cupcake Corner

Concept Artist Electronic Arts, Salt Lake City, UT. Dec. 2006 – August 2010

• Hasbro prototypes: Mr. Potato Head, Battleship, Magic: The Gathering
• Character and Environment concepts on NERF N-Strike and NERF N-Strike Elite
• Character and Environment concepts on the MySims franchise

Environment Artist Headgate Studios, Bountiful, UT. Feb. 2006 – Dec. 2006

• 3D Environment Artist on Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07/08

Clients

Game Studios

• Lab Zero Games – Indivisible, Skullgirls
• Capcom – Street Fighter IV
• Spry Fox – Steambirds Alliance
• Proletariat – Streamline
• Armor Games – i saw her standing there

Print Media and Apparel

• Fangamer
• Eighty Sixed Clothing
• Sanshee
• Udon Entertainment

• Nominee for “Skullgirls” under the Animated Video Game category

• One hour talk to 300+ students on how to break it in the game industry

Square-Enix Final Fantasy X-2 Ultimania Contest – 2003

• Winning entry “Alternate Yuna design”

Education

Associates Degree in Computer Animation Full Sail, Orlando, FL. Sept. 2003 – Nov. 2004

Cinematic Animation Kubert School, Dover, NJ. Sept. 2000 – May 2003

Software

• Unity, Maya, 3DS Max, 3D Coat, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Tiled, Spine, Perforce, SVN, Git, Jira