Ian McIntosh

About Ian McIntosh

Interested in art leadership opportunities.)My many years of experience as a Senior Character Artist have made me a master at creating high quality 3d character art for games. I am adept in all stages of asset development – from initial concept, all the way through to final in-game model with shader fx. And after spending more than 15 years creating quality character art for games, I wanted some new challenges and responsibilities to allow me to keep growing in my career. So naturally, I leaped at the opportunity to advance into a management position at Bungie where I have started to develop my leadership skills. Most of my time now is spent giving feedback to external partners, managing the internal integration artists, communicating with stakeholders such as producers and the art director, solving problems, and finding ways to continue to innovate. I find it all to be extremely satisfying and am excited to see where I can go from here!

Experience

1. Art Lead

   Bungie

   Nov 2020 — Present · Bellevue, WA, US

   Imbedded in the Destiny 2 Armor Rewards and Expression Team to oversee externally created content. Give detailed and clear feedback at each stage of production for all the armor being created externally. Ensure assets are created at the highest quality, match the style of the project, and follow the art direction. Manage the internal and external artists integrating the armor into the game engine.(Currently I manage 7 people.) Define and continually improve the external character art development pipeline with innovative new practices. Collaborate with different disciplines within the internal development teams to improve the tools and workflow. In charge of creating and maintaining training documentation for the armor team (written in Confluence and videos).

Education

• Vancouver Institute of Media Arts

  Classical Animation Diploma, Classical Animation

  2001 — 2002

• American Animation Company

  High School Internship, Computer Animation

  1999 — 2000

• Vancouver Institute of Media Arts

  Commercial Animation Diploma, Computer Animation

  2002 — 2003

Skills

• Marvelous Designer
• Game Development
• Cloth Simulation
• Zbrush
• 3d
• Modeling
• Animation
• Production Pipeline
• Ps4
• 3d Coat
• Character Rigging
• 3d Modeling
• Maya
• Photoshop
• Microsoft Word
• Perforce
• Xbox One
• 3d Character Modeling
• Conceptual Art
• Rigging
• Microsoft Excel
• Texture Painting
• Traditional Animation
• Character Animation
• Mudbox
• Uv Mapping
• Video Games
• Digital Sculpting
• Outsourcing
• Illustrator
• Texturing