CURRICULUM VITAE OF LAURI MÄKI

Name: Lauri Mäki

Birth year: 1983

Marital status: Married. 2 children

Work experience:

· 2007-2010 Acrodea ltd. Europe – Technical Designer

· 2007-present Pixelcrust – Owner/Artist (secondary project)

· 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 similiar 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 abroad

· 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

· Some experience working with Silo3D and ZBrush (version 3 forwards)

· Some basic level skills working with Unity3D, IrrEdit, UEd and some custom level and world editors

· Texture/reference-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 CS4 extended (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 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

· Stair Dismount – iPhone, iPad (2010)

· ZenBound 2 – iPad (2010)

· 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 2010 Fast Graphics competition

· 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

· Board games

· Photography

· 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.