jim@migrantj.com
Jim Grant
migrantj.com/gallery.htmEducation
Illinois State UniversityBachelor of Science, Major in Arts Technology
Graduated Summa Cum Laude in January 2001
Work Experience
Webfoot Technologies
Role
Project Lead / Artist / Designer / Event Scripter
Duties
- Creation of 2D and 3D art assets for characters, vehicles, environments, props, and interfaces.
- Assisted in managing a small team of artists and scripters.
- Documented company procedures, art techniques, and scripting guides on the company wiki
- Wrote high concepts, proposals, and design documents, and created the mockups used therein.
- Lead game event scripter
- Researched and developed new scripting languages and other technologies and instructed other developers in their use.
Elliottsweb
October 2001 – December 2002
Role
Lead Artist / Web Developer / Web Programmer / Database Administrator
Entertaining Games
RealSports Games
June 1999 – August 2000
Role
Art InternTitles
Main Titles
American Girl: Kit Mystery Challenge! (Nintendo DS, 2008)
Credited As: Lead Design, Character Art, Scripting
Credited As: Lead Design, Character Art, Scripting
- Co-wrote the design, level events, and dialog
- Modeled, textured, and animated many character models
- Assisted in managing a small team of artists and scripters
- Scripted game events
- General crisis management and bug fixing
American Girl: Julie Finds a Way (Nintendo DS, 2007)
Credited As: Design, Art, Scripting
Credited As: Design, Art, Scripting
- Assisted in design of game events and minigames
- Assisted in creation of art and animation for characters, minigames, and environments
- Scripted game events
- General crisis management and bug fixing
My Little Pony: The Runaway Rainbow (Nintendo Game Boy Advance, 2006)
Credited As: Lead Game Scripting, Design, Art
Credited As: Lead Game Scripting, Design, Art
- Wrote design and dialog
- Coordinated off-site artists in producing game assets
- Assisted in creation of art for characters, environments, items, and GUI elements
- Scripted all game events
Dragon Ball GT: Transformation (Nintendo Game Boy Advance, 2005)
Credited As: Lead Game Scripting, Design, Art
Credited As: Lead Game Scripting, Design, Art
- Co-wrote design and dialog
- Produced character, enemy, and level art
- Produced majority of special effect art
- Scripted all game events and enemy AI
Other Titles/Projects:
- My Little Pony: Pinkie Pie's Party (Nintendo DS, Shipping September 2008) Credited As: Design, Art
- Tonka On The Job (Nintendo Game Boy Advance and PC, 2006) Credited As: Game Scripting, Design, and Art
- Hello Kitty: Happy Party Pals (Nintendo Game Boy Advance, 2005) Credited As: Lead Scripting, Art
- Dragon Ball Z: Buu’s Fury (Nintendo Game Boy Advance, 2004) Credited As: Lead Game Scripting, Design, Art
- Unpublished Fighting Game (Sony Playstation 2 and Nintendo Gamecube, 2003) Role: Character Artist
- Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku II (Nintendo Game Boy Advance, 2003) Credited As: Art, Additional Design
- Unpublished Skateboarding Game (Sega Dreamcast, 2001) Role: Designer and Artist
- Entertaining Games Company Website and Commerce Portal (Web, 2001) Role: Designer, Artist, Web Programmer
- Unpublished Combat Racing Game (Sega Dreamcast and PC, 2000) Role: Artist
- Jeff Gordon XS Racing (Sony Playstation and PC, 1999) Role: Artist
Skills
Software Packages
- Adobe Photoshop
- Autodesk 3ds Max
- Adobe Flash
- Equilibrium Debabelizer
- Adobe Illustrator
- Autodesk Mudbox
- Adobe Premiere
- Adobe After Effects
Languages
- HTML
- CSS
- PHP
- MySQL
- Lua
- Actionscript
- Proprietary scripting languages
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