ROBERT LANCASTER
 ENVIRONMENT ARTIST

PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE

Star Wars: Hunters

• Currently principal environment artist on this upcoming mobile shooter from Zynga.

Hardware Rivals (Sony Interactive Entertainment 2015)

• Responsible for the design and construction of several maps using Unreal 4
• Built the major features/geometry for maps and created assets, props, terrain, foliage             
• Responsible for lighting and overall visual appearance of several maps

Need For Speed: Rivals (GHOST Games 2013)

• Designed and built open world race tracks using the Frostbite Editor
• Created exciting gameplay which supported the overall game design    
• Modelled white box assets and created the accompanying briefs for outsourcing
• Oversaw the completion of several tracks through final art and optimization

Need For Speed: Most Wanted Terminal Velocity DLC (Criterion Games 2013)

• Designed and built white box world for the Most Wanted Airport DLC map 
• Pushed the gameplay of Most Wanted to the next level by designing a map that provided extreme air and speed experiences which enabled players to take their cars to the limits
• Worked closely with event designers to ensure we crafted a thrilling player experience for single and multiplayer modes  

Need For Speed: Most Wanted (Criterion Games 2012)

• Designed and built large sections of Fairhaven City, creating gameplay for single and multiplayer modes
• Supervised the white box production of multiple tracks and was responsible for the work of several other designers
• Managed the streaming system and ensured that the overall world design was technically correct 
• Worked closely with event designers to craft gameplay experiences that supported their requirements

Burnout Crash (Criterion Games 2011)

• I worked with a small art team creating environment art, lighting and vehicles for console and ios versions

Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (Criterion Games 2010)

• Designed race tracks for this highly acclaimed open world racer

• Textured road surfaces and off-road areas

FUEL (ASOBO Studio 2009)

• Worked as a vehicle artist modelling and texturing a wide variety of post-apocalyptic bikes, cars and quads 

Project Gotham Racing 4 (Bizarre Creations 2007)

• Environment artist modelling and texturing real world city environments from photo reference and ground plans

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Boss Alien                                                                                                                         2017 - Present

Principal Environment Artist                                                                                     
                                                                           

• Star Wars:Hunters (ZYNGA)

Sony Interactive Entertainment                                                                                  2014 - 2017

Senior Environment Artist                                                                                     
                                                                           

• Hardware: Rivals (SONY)

GHOST Games EA                                                                                                           2013 – 2014

World Designer/World Artist                                                                                        
                                                                           

• Need For Speed: Rivals (EA GAMES)

Criterion Games EA                                                                                                        2009 – 2013

World Designer/World Artist                                                                                  

• Need For Speed: Most Wanted Terminal Velocity DLC (EA GAMES)
• Need For Speed: Most Wanted (EA GAMES)
• Burnout Crash (EA GAMES)
• Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (EA GAMES)

3DCS - Outsource Studio                                                                                              2007 – 2009

3D Artist                                                                                                                    

• FUEL (ASOBO Studio) 
• Project Gotham Racing 4 (Bizarre Creations)
• The Club (Bizarre Creations)

  

TECHNICAL SKILLS/SOFTWARE

Building environments using Unreal 4

Substance Painter and creating procedural textures in substance Designer

Frostbite 2 Editor / Gamechanger (Criterion In-house Tools) / Maya / Photoshop / Zbrush 

Low and High Poly Modelling / Environment Modelling / Texturing / 2D Art and Design


EDUCATION

 MA Digital Games - Liverpool John Moores University - 2006                                                                         

BA (Hons) Set Design - Cleveland College of Art and Design - 2003