Zbrush
Tuna Tolga Gulsen
Senior Hard Surface Artist/Digital Artist
Ankara
Summary
- The Senior 3D Artist with 5+ years of AAA experience in the game industry. An outstanding performer in both hard surface modeling and organic modeling. After being promoted to Art Director status, he managed a team capable of creating visually appealing content with a strong understanding of industry needs and human relationships, as well as creating optimized models that are engine/game ready from start to finish. Work well with other disciplines in a studio environment. Fully experienced with full game development cycles. He was promoted to Project Lead and continues his duties.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
Project Lead
TaleWorlds Entertainment
08.2024 - Current
- Working closely with Art Directors, Programmer Leads and Producers.
- Mentoring - identify and provide opportunities to the team for development and growth
- Recruitment/onboarding - involvement in recruiting new members into the department and onboarding them into our culture and workflow
- Ensuring delivery capabilities of the team are maintained against deadlines, specs and budget
Art Director
TaleWorlds Entertainment
12.2020 - 08.2024
- Creatively lead in any situation, author and underwrite the ambition and vision of the project
- Taking ownership and authority in creativity, and leading external engagements
- Understanding the needs and obstacles faced by artists, to propose effective and ambitious solutions.
- Oversee the end to end production, taking ideas and concepts through to final presentation material
- Strong level of visual critique based on artistic and technical fundamentals
- Very good in human relations and team leadership
Senior 3D Artist
TaleWorlds Entertainment
08.2015 - 12.2020
- Transformed ideas into high-quality, visually appealing 3D concepts.
- Worked on designing and making solutions on 3D assets.
- Created high-quality 3D game-ready Low-Poly models for the game engine.
- Worked on every step on 3D model production pipeline. High-poly modeling, High-poly to Low-poly PBR map baking. UV unwrapping, Texture Painting, Rigging, Made meshes compatible with engine.
- Worked closely with Art Director, 3D Modelers, Concept Artists, and Programmers to implement visual designs created for the game
- Maintained high level of quality of assets while working within design constraints and balancing performance issues.
- Approached with various modeling techniques to the desired ideas. Therefore I have wide software palette that gives me to do Polygonal SubD Modeling, CAD Modeling, and Digital Sculpting
- Thanks to traditional sculpture education background, I knew both organics models such as human anatomy and hard surface models
2D Artist. Intern
Zibumi
07.2014 - 10.2014
- Worked on color theory and lighting techniques in wanted drawings.
- Illustrations made for some mini-games.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Sculpture
Hacettepe Universty
09.2008 - 08.2013
Software
Fusion360
3Ds Max
Blender
Substance Painter
Keyshot
Marmoset Toolbag
Quixel DDO
Xnormal
Moi3d
Photoshop
Adobe Premiere
Unity Engine
Interests
Playing Airsoft, watching Sci-Fi movies, 3D print out some figures and weapons that I made, playing games, and doing a camp in nature
Timeline
Project Lead
TaleWorlds Entertainment
08.2024 - Current
Art Director
TaleWorlds Entertainment
12.2020 - 08.2024
Senior 3D Artist
TaleWorlds Entertainment
08.2015 - 12.2020
2D Artist. Intern
Zibumi
07.2014 - 10.2014
Bachelor of Arts - Sculpture
Hacettepe Universty
09.2008 - 08.2013