Neil Marshall

Neil Marshall, B.A.
474 Levanna Lane
Oakville, On L6H 6B9
(289) 837-0774
E-mail: neil@eightlines.com

Little Charmers: Sparkle Up	Truck Town: Smash! Crash!	Ruins Below	Turret Alert	My Pet Brainling
Epic the Official Game	UNO & Friends	Texas Hold'em Poker for Prizes	Fashion Icon	Ice Age Village
Dungeon Hunter 3	Virtual Canada 2005

Core Competencies
Pipeline Optimization	Shader Optimization	Debugging	Tool Design & Implementation	Creative Problem Solving
Programming & Scripting
GLES / GLSL / CG	C#	C++	MaxScript	Python
Game Engines & Graphics
Unity 3D	Proprietary Vita Engine	Proprietary iPhone Engine	Torque Game Engine	Flash
3D Studio Max	Maya	Photoshop	ZBrush	3Delight (Renderman)
SVN	CVS	GIT	NSIS Installer	Install Shield

• Tasharen Entertainment, Toronto ON. http://www.tasharen.com/
• Lead Technical Artist (2016 - Present)
• Tasharen is known for their game Windward on Steam and the NGUI addon for Unity
• Wrote documentation for the TNet networking library
• Exported and hooked up vehicles for use in game
• Implemented various shaders

• Corus Entertainment, Toronto ON. http://www.corusent.com/
• Technical Artist (2014 - 2015)
• Corus Entertainment one of the world's leading international producers and distributors of children's content.
• Designed and programmed complex animated touch user interfaces
• Designed and programmed user interaction game logic
• Reduced TV asset polygon counts, rigged, and animated characters
• Created export tools in Maya using Python

• Gameloft, Toronto ON. http://www.gameloft.com/
• Technical Artist (2011 - 2014)
• Gameloft develops, publishes and distributes its titles for smartphones, feature phones and tablets
• Contributed to 7+ mobile games on various platforms
• Created and optimized vertex and fragment shaders (pixel shaders) for mobile devices
• Modelled, rigged, and animated both characters and environment pieces
• Developed importers/exporters in 3DSMax, Photoshop, and command line tools for artists to reduce their work load
• Ported and optimized existing art assets to work on different devices

• Ganz Interactive, Toronto ON. http://www.ganz.com/
• Core Game Developer (2009 - 2011)
• Ganz manufactures the Webkinz line of stuffed animals and their online games.
• Designed and implemented animation trees used by all in-game characters
• Produced a fully customizable character rig with dynamic clothing and materials
• Collaborated in the creation of the base framework used by all game developers on the project
• Team Lead Assistant - managing multiple developers creating a client for a 3D MMO
• Implemented Import and Export tools used by all of the artists

• Vizible Inc., Toronto ON.
• Developer (2008)
• Vizible is a software company developing an assembly model for representing media in a 3D environment.
• Scripted the user interface of the AT&T Pogo web browser in JavaScript and XUL.
• Created interactive 3D User Interfaces to visualize browser bookmarks as thumbnails

• View22 Technology Inc., Richmond Hill ON. http://www.view22.com/
• Senior Artist (2006 - 2007)
• View22 is a provider of web solutions enabling customers to visualize, configure, and purchase products through an intuitive 3D experience.
• Created tools in MaxScript to speed up the artists work-flow
• Created a 3ds Max Plugin in C++ to reduce the number of applications needed to export models
• Setup a Renderman render server and integrated Autodesk Inventor & Intent to create custom playgrounds

• Genesis Worldwide Mississauga ON. http://www.genesisworldwide.com/
• Lead Developer (2005 - 2006)
• Created a 3D Building walkthrough system using the Torque Engine
• Created 3DS Max export scripts to convert Architectural Drawings to the game engine's file format
• Programmed a web browser plugin to view 3D houses in realtime

Computer Animation Post Graduate	Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
BA in Art & Art History	University of Toronto & Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning