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Neil Richards
Senior Concept Artist - Maxis
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Summary

22 years of experience.
Key contact of multiple large teams in all disciplines.
Art production, concept ideation and team management.
Development and supervision of production art with outsourcing.
Mentoring, training, feedback across multiple disciplines.
Design collaboration with developers, audio and QA.

Design of characters, assets, creatures and environments.
Storyboards, illustration, level design, 3D blockouts and maps.
Responsible for major game updates.

Good with Photoshop, Rebelle, Blender, Zbrush, Unreal Engine,
JIRA, Confluence, Perforce, Shotgrid, Miro, even Microsoft Office!

Skills

DrawingPaintingDigital PaintingDigital SculptingIllustrationphotoshopLevel DesignWorld BuildingProduction DesignzbrushblenderConcept ArtblockoutsConcept Design3D ModelingProp DesignArchitectural Design

Software proficiency

Photoshop
Photoshop
ZBrush
ZBrush
Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine
Blender
Blender
Artstudio Pro
Artstudio Pro
Nomad Sculpt
Nomad Sculpt

Experience

  • Senior Concept Artist at Maxis
    CAMBRIDGE, GB
    December 2023 - Present

  • Lead Concept Artist at Jagex
    Cambridge
    June 2004 - December 2023

    RuneScape 3 - Lead concept and production artist.

    www.runescape.com