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Sam Stevens
Sam Stevens
Environment Artist | Technical Artist | Lighting Artist
Remote, United States

Summary

Award-winning interdisciplinary artist and creative technologist specializing in open world environment art in UE5, with expertise in the development of technical art tools and PCG, World Partition, foliage creation and scattering, Lumen and real-time lighting, photogrammetry, VR development, immersive filmmaking, VJ’ing, and interactive installations. Contributed to fifteen 360° feature films for planetariums and VR, taking on roles ranging from Director, Cinematographer, Lead Environment Artist, Lead Technical Artist and Lead Video Editor to Lead VFX Artist, Character Designer, 3D Animator and Sound Designer. Designed and produced all of the art and VFX for two shipped Unity apps, Peaceful Places VR, and a projection mapped 360° Fulldome VJ app. I have a passion for innovation and creative problem solving with expertise spanning the full creative pipeline, including directing, producing, programming, developing technical art tools, 3D modeling, optimization, compositing, real-time lighting, real-time VFX, UV mapping, UE5 shader development, blueprint scripting, photorealistic texturing, programming, cinematography, video editing, rigging, animation, virtual production, rendering and immersive event production.

Skills

Immersive ArtsPhotographyVideo EditingVisual EffectsLevel DesignEnvironment DesignShadersMaterialsPhotogrammetryEnvironment ArtBiome ArtWorld Building3D ModelingLightingTexturing

Software proficiency

Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine
Unity
Unity
RealityScan
RealityScan
RealityCapture
RealityCapture
ZBrush
ZBrush
Substance 3D Painter
Substance 3D Painter
Houdini
Houdini
Perforce
Perforce
ComfyUI
ComfyUI
Photoshop
Photoshop
Premiere
Premiere
After Effects
After Effects
3ds Max
3ds Max
Maya
Maya
Substance Designer
Substance Designer
Redshift
Redshift
Cinema 4D
Cinema 4D
Blender
Blender
PTGui
PTGui
AutoCAD
AutoCAD
Stable Diffusion
Stable Diffusion
Flow Production Tracking
Flow Production Tracking
Jira
Jira
Ableton Live
Ableton Live
Dante
Dante
Resolume
Resolume
GitHub
GitHub
WordPress
WordPress
Disguise
Disguise
Medialon
Medialon