CURRICULUM VITAE OF LAURI MÄKI
Name: Lauri Mäki
Birth year: 1983
Marital status: Married. 2 children
Work experience:
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2007-2010 Acrodea ltd. Europe – Technical Designer
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2007-present Pixelcrust – Owner/Artist (secondary project)
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2006-2007 Fathammer/Telcogames – Technical
Art Director/3D artist
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2005-2006 Fathammer ltd. – Technical Art Director/3D artist
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2003-2005 Fathammer ltd. – Lead level designer
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2001-2003 Fathammer ltd. – 3D artist
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1997-1999 Sarfvik Golf & Sarfvik Golf
club Gardening
General skills/Experience:
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Involved more
than 15 released game projects from the beginning to gold master and credited
in well over 20
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Creation and
technical advisory of game content, tool and engine design in several projects
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Experience with
game level design, writing game concepts and game designs on different game
genres.
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Experienced in
working together with both artists and software engineers at the same time and
working as a link between them
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Worked as a
direct lead for up to 4 person 3d-artist team
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Attended a number
of bigger scale computer hobbyist projects at Demoscene
for more than 10 years
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Finished several
stop-motion short films on hobby basis working both in team and by myself
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Basic training on
composition, color theory, painting, history of art and other similiar base-level crucial skills
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Held lessons of Maxscript at EVTEK instute of Art
and Design for 3d artists in spring 2006
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Experience
working in QA team in several outsourced game-projects which has included
training of the partner-developers abroad
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Experience in
using bug and task tracking and version control systems effectively in action
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Managing a one
man company as a secondary job (3D, Photography, Maxscript&rigging
consulting)
Computer skills:
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Experienced at
using 3dsmax as a modelling, mapping, lighting, and
rigging/animating tool
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Experience in
using and designing game specific custom tools for content creation and scripting
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Some experience working
with Silo3D and ZBrush (version 3 forwards)
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Some basic level skills working
with Unity3D, IrrEdit, UEd and some custom level and world editors
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Texture/reference-photography
and using of photographed material for creating textures
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Knowledge and
experience on writing 3dsmax tools with Maxscript
varying from workflow enchancements to
file-exporters/importers
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Experience in
working with Mental Ray renderer
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Working with
Adobe Photoshop from version 2.0 to current CS4 extended (Also quite familiar
with Extendscript)
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Digital
photography and video editing
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Some basic skills
on PHP, Javascript, HTML, SQL
Language skills:
Finnish, native
English, fluent (day-to-day working language for 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 projects go
to: http://random.gfxile.net/?page_id=69
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Stair Dismount – iPhone, iPad (2010)
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ZenBound 2 – iPad (2010)
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ZenBound – iPhone (2009)
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SPiN – iPhone (2008)
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Sil+ – Win32, S60 r2 & r3, WM5 (2007)
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Tomb Raider
Legend – S60, UIQ (2006-2007)
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Sil – Win32, S60, UIQ, WM (2006-2007)
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ToyGolf – Win32, S60 r3 (2006-2007)
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Boom! Boom!
Driller! – PC (2006)
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Brush Legend –
WIPI (2006)
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Rainbow Jek – WIPI (2006)
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Geopod DC – JSR-184 (2005)
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Factory Pinball –
PC (2005)
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Stuntcar Extreme - Zodiac, S60, UIQ, Pocket PC, WIPI
(2003-2005)
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Stuntcar Extreme Enhanced – Dell Axim
(2004)
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Spy Hunter –
Zodiac (2003)
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Firehammer level packs – Zodiac (2005)
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Hockey Rage 2005
– Gizmondo (2005)
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Geopod XE – Zodiac, S60, UIQ, PPC (2003)
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Men In Black II:
Alien pursuit – UIQ (2002)
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Stunt Run – UIQ
(2002)
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Geopod – S60, PPC (2002)
Other achievements:
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1st at Assembly
2010 Fast Graphics competition
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1st at Assembly
2007 Fast Graphics competition
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2nd at Assembly
2007 Short film competition
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2nd at Assembly
2007 Oldskool Graphics competition
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1st at Assembly
2005 Freestyle Graphics competition
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3rd at Assembly
2005 Short film competition
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Kamera-magazine digital photographer 2004 - 3rd place.
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LeGorso and LeGorSIKA stop-motion
series has won several 1st prizes at Finnish short film festivals and
competitions.
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Big bunch of
awards from individual and group demoscene
competitions.
Personal interests:
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Digital visual
arts
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Computer games
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Board games
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Photography
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Floorball
Websites:
Blog :
http://random.gfxile.net
Photography :
http://random.kuvat.fi/
Contact information:
Phone: Ask in e-mail
E-mail: random at saunalahti - fi
Snail: Ask
References
available on request.