Sean R. Fitzgerald

Outsource Artist @Blizzard Entertainment

Irvine, CA, US

Works alongside the Character and Weapon Art Outsourcing team + leads to ensure all art delivered from external vendors is integrated properly, and ready for review. • Participate in reviews of assets with Outsource Managers, Art Leads, and external vendors. • Identify and call out potential issues with assets to management. • Assists Outsourcing Team with task creation and tracking as needed. • Communicates and leaves feedback to our Vendors to maintain the overwatch art style • Assists in the rigging/skinning and paint weight process for our weapons and characters • Handles the LOD’s on our characters + weapons, even creating them in house • Handles all texture work for the “Golden Guns” weapon variants for competitive play • Creates UX portraits for each skin to be used in game • Handles the in-Engine Budgets, correctly adjust MIP’s for assets (Models + Textures) for each holiday event and/or Season so the game can perform optimally on lowest settings • Frequently interplays between the Tech Art and Animation teams • Assists the esports team, setting up esport specific skins and their many variants in engine and their presentation quality bar are hit for live broadcast • Concurrently work on supporting Overwatch 1’s live game while working on the development of Overwatch 2’s PVP and Campaign mode.

Villanova University

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Media Production