CURRICULUM VITAE OF LAURI MÄKI

Name: Lauri Mäki

Birth year: 1983

Marital status: Married. 2 children

Work experience:

2007-present Acrodea ltd. Europe – Technical Designer (current primary job)

2007-present Pixelcrust – Owner/Artist (current secondary job)

2006-2007 Fathammer/Telcogames – Technical Art Director/3D artist

2005-2006 Fathammer ltd. – Technical Art Director/3D artist

2003-2005 Fathammer ltd. – Lead level designer

2001-2003 Fathammer ltd. – 3D artist

1997-1999 Sarfvik Golf & Sarfvik Golf club Gardening

General skills/Experience:

• Involved more than 15 released game projects from the beginning to gold master and credited in well over 20

• Creation and technical advisory of game content, tool and engine design in several projects

• Experience with game level design, writing game concepts and game designs on different game genres.

• Experienced in working together with both artists and software engineers at the same time and working as a link between them

• Worked as a direct lead for up to 4 person 3d-artist team

• Attended a number of bigger scale computer hobbyist projects at Demoscene for more than 10 years

• Finished several stop-motion short films on hobby basis working both in team and by myself

• Basic training on composition, color theory, painting, history of art and other base-level crucial skills

• Held lessons of Maxscript at EVTEK instute of Art and Design for 3d artists in spring 2006

• Experience working in QA team in several outsourced game-projects which has included training of the partner-developers

• Experience in using bug and task tracking and version control systems effectively in “action”

• Managing a one man company as a secondary job (3D, Photography, Maxscript&rigging consulting)

Computer skills:

• Experienced at using 3dsmax as a modelling, mapping, lighting, and rigging/animating tool

• Experience in using and designing game specific custom tools for content creation and scripting

• Texture-photography and using of photographed material for creating textures

• Knowledge and experience on writing 3dsmax tools with Maxscript varying from workflow enchancements to file-exporters/importers

• Experience in working with Mental Ray renderer

• Working with Adobe Photoshop from version 2.0 to current CS2 (Also quite familiar with extendscript)

• Digital photography and video editing

• Some basic skills on PHP, Javascript, HTML, SQL

Language skills:

• Finnish, native

• English, fluent (day-to-day working language several years already)

• Swedish, basics

Education:

Matriculation Examination at Senior secondary school for visual arts - 2002

Credited in following released game titles:

For detailed information about these and some unreleased game projects go to: http://random.gfxile.net/?page_id=71

• ZenBound – iPhone (2009)

• SPiN – iPhone (2008)

• Sil+ – Win32, S60 r2 & r3, WM5 (2007)

• Tomb Raider Legend – S60, UIQ (2006-2007)

• Sil – Win32, S60, UIQ, WM (2006-2007)

• ToyGolf – Win32, S60 r3 (2006-2007)

• Boom! Boom! Driller! – PC (2006)

• Brush Legend – WIPI (2006)

• Rainbow Jek – WIPI (2006)

• Geopod DC – JSR-184 (2005)

• Factory Pinball – PC (2005)

• Stuntcar Extreme - Zodiac, S60, UIQ, Pocket PC, WIPI (2003-2005)

• Stuntcar Extreme Enhanced – Dell Axim (2004)

• Spy Hunter – Zodiac (2003)

• Firehammer level packs – Zodiac (2005)

• Hockey Rage 2005 – Gizmondo (2005)

• Geopod XE – Zodiac, S60, UIQ, PPC (2003)

• Men In Black II: Alien pursuit – UIQ (2002)

• Stunt Run – UIQ (2002)

• Geopod – S60, PPC (2002)

Other achievements:

• 1st at Assembly 2007 Fast Graphics competition

• 2nd at Assembly 2007 Short film competition

• 2nd at Assembly 2007 Oldskool Graphics competition

• 1st at Assembly 2005 Freestyle Graphics competition

• 3rd at Assembly 2005 Short film competition

• Kamera-magazine digital photographer 2004 - 3rd place.

• LeGorso and LeGorSIKA stop-motion series has won several 1st prizes at Finnish short film festivals and competitions.

• Big bunch of awards from individual and group demoscene competitions.

Personal interests:

• Digital visual arts

• Computer games

• Photography

• Floorball

Portfolio:

http://random.gfxile.net

Contact:

Phone: Ask in e-mail

E-mail: random at saunalahti - fi

Snail: Ask

References available on request.