Experience

www.andrewklein.net | andrew@andrewklein.net | Kirkland, WA

2 decades of professional experience as a 3D Artist, Technical Artist, Producer, and Educator currently focusing on Global External Development for AAA Games


Selected Work

Epic Games , --Remote-- (2024-Present)

Outsource Lead

  • Fortnite 

Monolith / Warner Bros Games , Kirkland WA (2019-2024)

Lead Artist, External Development

  • Wonder Woman (Working Title / Unreleased)
  • Untitled Cancelled Project (2019-2020)

Valkyrie Entertainment, Seattle WA (2018-2109)

Executive Producer -and- Art Manager

  • God of War Ragnarok (2021)
  • Aliens Fireteam (2021)
  • Bloodlines 2: Vampire the Masquerade (2021)
  • Valorant (2020)
  • Maneater (2020)
  • Legends of Runterra (2019)
  • Ark: Survival Evolved DLC content (2019)
  • Atlas: DLC Content (2019)
  • Oculus Quest Homes (2019)
  • Killing Floor 2 DLC Content (2019)

Microsoft, Redmond WA (2016-2018)

Lead 3D Artist

  • 3D Projects for Windows Mixed Reality
  • 3D For Everyone, Windows/Office/Next

Sledgehammer Games (Activision), Foster City CA (2013-2016)

Senior 3D Modeler & Tech Artist

  • Call of Duty: World War II (2017)
  • Call of Duty: AW DLC (2014/2015) 
  • Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014)

Ex’pression College, Emeryville CA (2015)

Adjunct Faculty

2K Marin (Take Two Interactive), Novato CA (2012-2013)

Level Modeler

  • The Bureau: XCOM Declassified DLC (2013) 
  • The Bureau: XCOM Declassified (2013) 

Playviews, San Francisco CA (2012)

Art Director and 3D Artist

  • My Pet Monsters on iOS and Android (2012)

The Art Institute of California, San Francisco (2005-2012)

Full Time Faculty (Game Art & Design and Media Arts & Animation)


Metaversatility (Sony Playstation), San Francisco CA (2009)

Environment/Character Modeler and Texture Artist

  • Playstation HOME on PS3 live updates (2009)

Millions of Us (Sony Playstation), Sausalito CA (2008)

Environment Modeler and Texture Artist

  • Playstation HOME on PS3 (2008)


Education


MFA, Computer Animation (June2012)

The Art Institute of California -- SF SanFrancisco CA


BFA, Painting + Digital Media(May 2004)

Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh PA

Certifications


Zbrush Certified Instructor 

(Pixologic/Maxon)


Maya Certified Instructor 

(Autodesk ACI program)

Software

3D

Maya, Zbrush, Speedtree, Agisoft Metashape, Unreal, Unity, Radiant, LithEngine, Enlighten, Kent (HCAP)

Rendering

Arnold, Mental Ray, Marmoset,Keyshot

2D

Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Photoshop, Quixel Suite

Video

Premiere, After Effects

Project

Perforce, Shotgun, JIRA, Hansoft,VSO, SyncoSVN, Tortoise SVN, Transmit, Asana, MS Project, Test Track Pro, MSOffice, Coda

Using Format