Melissa Buffaloe, 3D Artist

buffaloe@aaramel.com •  (310) 597-1084
www.aaramel.com

WORK HISTORY

Treyarch:  1/05 – present

Lead Environment Artist -  As the lead environment artist on Call of Duty: World at War, when I wasn’t actually creating props and textures, a lot of my job was to give feedback to the environment team on individual assets, and to the build teams on the overall look of the levels. At the beginning of the project, I worked out a pipeline for the environment artists and researched new techniques for our team which really helped shape the end result. We also switched from Max to Maya on this project, so I spent a large amount of time getting the art team up to speed and helping to troubleshoot our tools integration with Maya. I set up schedules for each of the 7 artists on the team, and created props and textures for the levels I was assigned to.

• Call of Duty: Nazi Zombies DLC
• Call of Duty: World at War
• Call of Duty 3
• Call of Duty 2: Big Red One

The Film Foundry:  1/04 – 1/05

3D Artist

• Modeling
• UV layout and texturing
• Matte painting
• Setting up and lighting scenes for print
• Animation and layouts

Artificial Studios: 4/03 – 1/05

Lead Texture Artist

• Textured models and levels for tech demos used to sell licenses for the Reality Engine which was eventually acquired by Epic
• Oversaw the remote team’stexture work for these tech demos

In the Spotlight Magazine: 12/01-1/03

• Creating advertisements and helping with layout of magazine using Photoshop and Quark

Wagstaff Tile: 8/96-5/02

• Painting a wide variety of designs on ceramic tile

Virtual Design Network:  1/01 – 12/01

• Designing and developing dynamic web sites using Flash, Photoshop, and 3D Studio Max

Freelance Work

• Texture painting
• Modeling
• UI design
• Mural painting
• 2D design including ads, logos, CD covers brochures, etc.

Freelance Clients

• Shepherd’s Pie Productions UV layout and procedural texturing
• Signature Devices Texture Painting and UI development
• 3D Total Texture Painting

PUBLICATIONS

Some of my texture work is featured in a book called Texturing:  Concepts and Techniques by Dennis Summers which was released in February 2004

EDUCATION

University of North Carolina at Greensboro:  8/96 – 12/00

BFA in Studio Art with Design Concentration

Worked from 8/99-12/00 as a studio assistant in the computer lab, where I provided technical support on hardware, software, and network issues.

Internship at the Mint Museum of Craft and Design 5/00-12/00

SOFTWARE

• Photoshop
• Maya
• 3D Studio Max
• ZBrush
• Crazy Bump
• Perforce
• Radiant
• Unreal Editor