CHA, HOKYUNG (okang7942@gmail.com)

OBJECTIVE

• Full time 3D modeling position or freelance job

WORK EXPERIENCE

Capcom, April.18 – Present, Osaka, Japan

• 3D Character Artist (Monster Hunter Rise)
  • Created main characters in game.
  • Modeling, sculpting, texturing, blend shape and rigging.
  • Mentor for newbies and Junior artist.
  • Maintain the quality of assets from outsource company.

Ubisoft, Mar.16 – Mar.18, Osaka, Japan

• 3D Artist (South Park ; The Fractured But Whole)
  • Created background assets and props for the game.
  • Created character assets.
  • Clean up cut scenes.

Freelance / Part-time Work

Cloudburst Games Oct.13 – Sep. 15 – Mountain View, CA

• 3D Character/Prop artist
  • Create the main character by using Maya / Zbrush and bake normal maps with xnormal.
  •  Create background assets with Maya and Zbrush.

Mim Studio Sep.12 – Nov.14

• 3D Character/Prop artist
  • Worked on 3D modeling and UV layout and normal map for the main characters.

   Y-Book Project

• • Designed 3D character animation shots for smart-phone app.

Related Training

Gnomon School, Apr.14 – Sep. 15

• Creature Modeling and Sculpting: learned how to create creatures with ZBrush
• Hard Surface Modeling II: learned creating non-organic products for scenes: robots and vehicles
• Environment Creation for Games: learned to build interactive environments for games
• Character Creation for games: learned fundamentals of creating deformable characters
• Character sculpture I: learned creating detailed digital sculptures
• Introduction to Unreal Engine: learned building skills with the Unreal Editor

EDUCATION

• Academy of Art University, Feb.10 – May.13 (MFA), San Francisco, CA
  • Major: 3D Modeling
•  Ewha Woman’s University, Mar.05 – Dec.08 (BFA), Seoul, Korea
  • Major: Sculpture

PROJECT

• Kyto VR(Creating Unity assets for virtual Kyoto) Sep.16 – Oct. 16
  • Clean up and textured scanned character. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfUjhns8-Bc)
• My Joshua (Animation short film)
  • Created assets for the main character for short animation film (http://vimeo.com/112237761)
• ADAMAS (Thesis project for short VFX subject.)
  • Modeled the ice, laid out the UVs and backed displacement map (http://vimeo.com/65806260)
• Melody (VFX project)
  • Participated in 3D modeling, and created UV Layout for the birds in the project

SOFTWARE

• Autodesk Maya, Pixologic Zbrush, Marmoset toolbag, Unreal Engine, Substance Painter, Xnormal, Keyshot, Quixel nDo2, Autodesk 3Ds Max, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premier, Microsoft Office

LANGUAGE

• Korean, English, Japanese