Resume

Jason Hickey

Art Director & Consultant

Bologna, Italy

Summary

19+ years experience in the games industry coming from an environment artist background all the way through to Art Direction on AAA titles.

- Art Director, Marvel Spider-Man 2, Sony/Insomniac Games, Los Angeles
- Art Director, Marvel Spider-Man Miles Morales, Sony/Insomniac Games, Los Angeles
- Lead Environment Artist, Marvel Spider-Man at Insomniac games, Los Angeles
- Lead Environment Artist and Assistant Art Director on The London Heist, The Deep and Street Luge VR on PlayStation VR at Sony London
- Lead Artist/Senior Environment Artist on Ryse at Crytek Frankfurt
- Lead Artist/Senior Environment Artist at Frontier Games
- Illustration and Design for Cobweb Games
- Environment and Character artist at Blade interactive
- Environment artist and animator at Big Bad Wolf

- Speaker at Devcom (Cologne - August 2023) Roundtable: Game Art in the Age of AI
- Speaker at Devcom (Cologne - August 2019) Adding personal Touches to a gigantic and well-known World in Marvel's Spider-Man
- Speaker at FMX (2016)
- Speaker at GDC (San Francisco - March, 2015) on Virtual Visuals: Key Lessons for Artists Working with VR
- Speaker at Develop Conference (Brighton - July, 2014) on Environment Art and it's application to Virtual Reality
- Speaker at BFX (Bournemouth - September, 2014) on Environment Art and it's application to Virtual Reality

- My art work for Ryse has been shown in London's National Gallery as part of the 2014 Renaissance Exhibition on Italian Architecture.
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/building-the-picture

- Ryse won Best Real-Time Graphics at Siggraph 2014
http://www.creativebloq.com/3d/siggraph-2014-caf-awards-announced-71412192

- Art Direction for "Heidi" at Big Bad Wolf
- Art Direction for "Lulu Mae" by Nina Hynes
- Trainee Art Direction on "Veronica Geurin" by Joel Schumacher

HND computer and Classical Animation (Distinction) - Irish School of Animation, Ballyfermot.

Specialties: 3DS MAX, Photoshop, Concept Art, Illustration

Skills

Software proficiency

3ds Max

Photoshop

Substance 3D Painter

Substance 3D Designer

ZBrush

xNormal

Quixel Suite

CRYENGINE

Substance B2M

Productions

- Video Game
  Marvel Spider-Man Miles Morales
- Year
  2020
- Role
  Art Director
- Company
  Insomniac Games
- Video Game
  Marvel Spider-Man
- Year
  2018
- Role
  Lead Environment Artist
- Company
  Insomniac Games
- Video Game
  PlayStation VR Worlds
- Year
  2016
- Role
  Lead Environment Artist/Assistant Art Director
- Company
  Sony London Studios
- Video Game
  Street Luge - Morpheus Demo
- Year
  2014
- Role
  Lead Environment Artist
- Company
  Sony London Studio
- Video Game
  London Heist - Morpheus Demo
- Year
  2015
- Role
  Lead Environment Artist
- Company
  Sony London Studios
- Video Game
  The Deep - Morpheus Demo
- Year
  2014
- Role
  Lead Environment Artist
- Company
  Sony London Studios
- Video Game
  Ryse: Son of Rome
- Year
  2013
- Role
  Lead Artist
- Company
  Crytek
- Board & Card Games
  Chronicles of Skin
- Year
  2013
- Role
  Art Director
- Company
  Cobweb Games
- Video Game
  Kinect Disneyland Adventures
- Year
  2011
- Role
  Senior Environment Artist
- Company
  Frontier
- Video Game
  Kinectimals: Now with Bears!
- Year
  2011
- Role
  Senior Environment Artist
- Company
  Frontier
- Board & Card Games
  Hell for Leather
- Year
  2010
- Role
  Art Director
- Company
  Cobweb Games
- Video Game
  The Outsider - Unreleased
- Year
  2010
- Role
  Senior Environment Artist
- Company
  Frontier
- Video Game
  The Hustle - Detroit Streets
- Year
  2006
- Role
  Artist
- Company
  Blade Interactive Studios
- Video Game
  World Championship Snooker 2005
- Year
  2005
- Role
  Artist
- Company
  Blade Interactive Studios
- Video Game
  World Championship Snooker 2004
- Year
  2004
- Role
  Artist
- Company
  Blade Interactive Studios
- Video Game
  Pool Shark 2
- Year
  2004
- Role
  Environment Artist
- Company
  Blade Interactive Studios
- Movie
  Veronica Guerin
- Year
  2003
- Role
  Assistant Art Director
- Company
  Schumacher Films

Experience

Art Director at Insomniac Games
Burbank, United States of America
July 2018 - Present
Lead Environment Artist at Insomniac Games
Burbank, United States of America
October 2016 - May 2020
Assistant Art Director at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe London Studio
London, United Kingdom
November 2014 - August 2016
Working on an unannounced project as assistant art director. My role involves working with a cross discipline team of graphic designers, concept artists, motion graphics artists, marketing, audio, vfx and environment art to do... Something very special. :-) This role is split between providing support for my art director as well as taking on large sections of the project over which I have full responsibility.
Environment Art Supervisor at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe London Studio
London, United Kingdom
January 2014 - August 2016
Lead Environment Artist on Sony's flagship new technology - Project Morpheus, Virtual Reality Headset. Responsible for developing, inspiring and driving the environment art style and pipeline for the game to deliver on quality and on time.
Lead Artist at Crytek
Frankfurt, Germany
December 2012 - January 2014
Responsible for developing, inspiring and driving the environment art style and pipeline for the game to deliver on quality and on time. Towards the end of production I also ran lighting, VFX, Cinematics and Marketing and was art director for multiplayer.

From August 2013 until Jamuary 2014 I was also acting art director for an unannounced project.
Senior Environment Artist at Crytek
Frankfurt, Germany
April 2012 - December 2012
Environment art asset creation including: Modelling, texture creation, material generation, prop placement and visual style definition.Creating cutting edge environments on next gen AAA game.
Art Director at Cobweb Games
London
October 2009 - April 2012
Art Directing in my spare time for an independent table top RPG company. I was responsible for providing illustrations and over looking the quality and consistency of the products. We produced two well received publications: Hell for Leather (Book) and Chronicles of Skin (Card Game).
Senior Artist at Frontier Developments
Cambridge
November 2008 - March 2012
Environment art asset creation including: Modelling, texture creation, material generation, lighting, prop placement and visual style definition. I also worked as a Lead Artist on a small mobile game (unreleased).
Artist at Big Bad Wolf
Dublin, Ireland
September 2005 - June 2008
Art Direction on 2 minute animated In house 3D Short - "Heidi"

Architectural visualzation, Corporate visualization, Logo Design and educational animated presentations.
Artist at Dark Energy Digital
Manchester, United Kingdom
June 2004 - September 2005
Character and environment artist

Software used:

3ds Max, Deep Paint 3d, Photoshop

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