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Frank Pusateri Art Director /Sr. Artist

Work Experience:

Babaroga LLC- Chicago, IL Feb. 2012 – Present Day

(IOS,Android, Window 8)

Art Director:

As art director, I am responsible for creating and implementing the visual design elements associated with, but not exclusive to 1.) Product aesthetic 2.) brand positioning 3.) public relations 4.)strategic marketing. In an effort to provide vision to Barbaroga's unique presence in the video game industry.

As the chief liaison between the publisher and our in house design professionals, it is my job to be able to understand a client’s concerns and ensure its development by the art staff . As well as providing a cross synergistic approach ,to the art creation, with the other disciplines involved in making our video games. I provide this vision through clear communication by clarifying and honing abstract ideas visually and lyrically into a focused direction.

Other duties under my title also include the creation and administration of project schedules and budgets. It is my responsibility to maximize the financial resources of both the client and employer across any given project. As well, I strive to achieve the highest earnings through both educated and innovative direction.

On any given day, I may find myself designing promotional, advertising and public relations materials. Provide game proposal kits from a visual stand point. Create all encompassing art style guides complete with concepting efforts. As well as review the art team’s performance and production for several in tandem projects.

Additional endeavors include collaborating with other marketing and creative departments as outsourcing works made its way into our project goals. At that stage it became even more crucial that I oversaw developing and refining our project budgets.

In addition to these duties I also make it my responsibility to keep up the team morale. I do this by keeping a positive spin on every challenge and keep in keen touch with the levels of confidence, enthusiasm, and discipline coming from each one of the artists I am fortunate enough to lead.

It has been my desire and due diligence to make Babaroga a major name in the video gaming industry on a global scale.

Production Artist:

As production artist at Babaroga my role includes, but is not limited to, modeling, texturing, and collaborating with designers and technical artists in the design and development of:

Character creation
Concept creation
Game world environments
World/Environment Lighting
Set dress and prop creation

I am responsible for ensuring that the art I create is an accurate representation of any concept art provided. Weather my own concept or a concept provided by someone else. I also strive to ensure that my art is of a high level of visual quality and meets all technical requirements. I work in collaboration with the rest of the team to create the highest quality game art possible within the time constraints provided.

From both the perspective of art director and production artist I consider myself to be a positive contributor to group discussions and team goals.

Day 1 Studios, LLC - Chicago, IL Mar. 2000- Dec. 2011

F.E.A.R 3 ( PS3, XBOX 360, PC)

Sr. Environment Artist / Level Lead (Art)

Designing, conceptualizing, and implementing environments and assets

Working directly with Level Lead (Designer) in creating full level experience

Lighting , aesthetics and mood implementation

Managing environment modelers for final asset creation and implementation

Collaborating with cinematic, scripting and sound teams for full level experience

Technical management for performance and memory

Final level set dress and polish

Over saw and scheduled tasks for the multiplayer effort from the art standpaint working directly with our client, WB interactive. As well as worked on the production of the multiplayer in addition to the singleplayer effort.

Fracture (PS3, XBOX 360)

Sr. Environment Artist / Level Lead (Art)

Designing, conceptualizing, and implementing environments and assets

Working directly with Level Lead (Designer) in creating full level experience

Lighting , aesthetics and mood implementation

Concept creation for game mechanics as well as prototype implementation to final implementation

Managing environment modelers for asset creation and implementation

Technical management for performance and memory

Final level set dress and polish

Sole artist on the entire multiplayer effort working with a modest sized design team in addition to the single player effort.

MechAssault 2 (XBOX)

Sr. Environment Artist / Level Lead (Art)

Designing, conceptualizing, and implementing environments and assets

Character creation from concept to final implementation

Working directly with Level Lead (Designer) in creating full level experience

Managing environment modelers for asset creation and implementation

Technical management for performance and memory

Final level set dress and polish

One of two artists to execute on the multiplayer effort in addition to the singleplayer effort.

MechAssault (XBOX)

Sr. Environment Artist / Level Lead (Art)

Designing, conceptualizing, and implementing environments and assets

Character creation from concept to final implementation

Prototype implementation of core game mechanics to final implementation

Working directly with Level Lead (Designer) in creating full level experience

Managing environment modelers for asset creation and implementation

Technical management for performance and memory

Final level set dress and polish

One of two artists to execute on the multiplayer effort in addition to the singleplayer effort.

Bungie Software- Chicago, IL Mar. 1995 - Jan. 2000

Halo (XBOX)

Lead Environment Artist worked on it for 1 year to go into a Senior level lead Art position on a project code named Siege created in the Halo engine.

On Halo I did level creation and conceptualization of alien environments.

Responsibilities on Siege included level look and creation , character conceptualization and creation

Myth 2 Soulblighter (Mac, PC)

Level Lead (Art)/Character conceptualization and creation, Game play design

Designing, conceptualizing, and implementing environments and assets

Character creation from concept to final implementation

Working directly with Level Lead (Designer) as well as designing and creating full level experience

Technical management for performance and memory

Final level set dress and polish

Myth the Fallen Lords (Mac later ported to PC)

Level Lead (Art)/ Character conceptualization and creation, Game play Design

Designing, conceptualizing, and implementing environments and assets

Character creation from concept to final implementation

Prototype implementation of core game mechanics to final implementation

Working directly with Level Lead (Designer) as well as designing and creating full level experience

Technical management for performance and memory

Final level set dress and polish

Marathon Durandal (Mac later ported to PC)

Junior(Art)/ sprite character clean up and alignment

level art and texture clean up for the Marathon box set

Portfolio: http://frankpusateri.blogspot.com/

Education: American Art Academy (1989-1993) Course Work: Fine Art and Illustration

Chicago, IL

References:

Anthony Rod Senior Engineer
ARod@wbgames.com

Tony Loquercio Senior Designer
TLoquercio@wbgames.com

Mike Lee Senior Designer
Mlee@wbgames.com

Willam Kowach Senior Lead Environment
wkowach@phosphorgames.com

Denny Thorley Senior VP

d thorley@wargaming.net 312-258-0500

Andrew J. Hura Environment art lead

a_hura@wargaming.net 312-258-0500

Gabe Bott Tech Art Lead

g_bott@wargaming.net 312-258-0500

TJWagner Creative Producer

t_wagner@wargaming.net 312-258-0500

Peter Kennedy Lead engineer

pkennedy@babaroga.com

John Ybarra Environment Lead

jybarra@babaroga.com

Heather Smith lead 2D artist

hsmith@babaroga.com

Peter Kennedy Lead Engineer

pkennedy@babaroga.com

jybarra lead environment

jybarra@babaroga.com

Chad Thelen Senior Artist

chad.thelen@highvoltage.com

Heidi Foland Artist
heidi.foland@highvoltage.com

Jason Segarra Engineer

Jason.Segarra@highvoltage.com

I can provide more references if needed.

pusaterifrank@gmail.com

773-681-0488

Cell: 847-902-8174

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In addition to working on the Single player on Fear 3 for the first year and half, I also was asked to head up and schedule out the Multiplayer portion of Fear 3. Working directly with a group of great guys at Warner Brothers Interactive, we brought the public what is in my opinion the best thing about Fear 3 and Day 1 Studios ; a great multiplayer experience!

What you see here is a compilation of hands on stuff I did for that multiplayer experience above and beyond the tasks indicated above. My tasks included layout and model construction along with full lighting and optimization implementation. In most cases, I worked out the layout from proxy on through to full completion with a modest team of modelers that assisted in final set dress items as well as some structural items. In other cases, such as Wade basement, we assembled these scenes from pre-existing tileset elements that were built for the single player. It was my goal to keep that to a bare minimum as I find it more then disappointing if I play a multiplayer that is riddled and/or lifted from the single player experience.

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