CONTACT DETAILS
| Name: |
Benjamin Darling |
| Email: |
electro@planetquake.com |
| Phone: |
0418 427 849 |
| Address: |
Unit 1, 8 Morant St., Ascot QLD 4007 |
OBJECTIVE
To work on AAA titles that everyone talks about, plays and loves. I want to continue to create fun immersive gameplay in stunning environments that engage players.
PERSONAL SUMMARY
I am an experienced 3D artist, dedicated to quality and productivity. I am both an active leader and a team player, with excellent communication skills between both technical and non-technical individuals.
I am experienced in the development of both next-gen and current generation art assets. I have an extensive understanding of per-pixel, lightmap and vertex based lighting solutions for environments. I am able to model effecient, continuous models while obtaining neat meshes. I take pride in my creative and logical problem solving abilities, assessing new technology as soon as it becomes readily available (including but not limited to, new techniques in updated versions of 3D modelling packages). While I take great pride in the quality of my work I am also able to work effeciently and produce quality results in limited time constaints.
I am an avid and passionate gamer who enjoys a wide variety of games. My favourite genres are 1st Person Shooters, 3rd Person Shooters, Platformers (any action game really!) and Racing.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
| Krome Studios |
| [ 2006 to Present ] |
| Hellboy (PS3/Xbox360) |
| - Environment Artist |
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| Torus Games |
| [ 2004 to 2006 ] |
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| Classified: The Sentinel Crisis (PS2/Xbox) |
| - Entity Scripting |
| - AI Navigational Data |
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| Ashen 2 (N-Gage) - Cancelled |
| - Level Design |
| - Level Building (Geometry/Applying Textures/Lighting) |
| - Entity Placement and Scripting |
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| Legion (PSP) - Tech Demo |
| - Level Design |
| - Level Building (Geometry/Applying Textures/Lighting) |
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| First to Fight (PSP) - Tech Demo |
| - Level Building (Geometry/Applying Textures/Lighting) |
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| Gumby (GBA) |
| - Level Design |
| - Level Building |
| - Entity Placement and Scripting |
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| Full Metal Alchamist (PSP) - Tech Demo |
| - Level Design |
| - Level Building (Geometry/Applying Textures/Lighting) |
| - Shaders/Special Effects |
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| Parkour (PSP) - Demo |
| - Level Design |
| - Level Building (Geometry/Applying Textures/Lighting) |
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| Classified Racing Title (PS2/Xbox/GC/DS/PSP) |
| - Level Design |
| - Level Building (Rapid Prototyping) |
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TECHNICAL SUMMARY
3D |
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| 3D Studio Max |
Advanced |
| GTKRadiant |
Advanced |
| Maya |
Intermediate |
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| 2D |
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| Adobe Photoshop |
Intermediate |
| Adobe Illustrator |
Intermediate |
| Flash 6/MX |
Intermediate |
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| Programming |
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| C Language |
Beginner/Intermediate |
| Java |
Intermediate |
| QuakeC |
Advanced |
EDUCATION AND AWARDS
| High School |
| Focussed on electives for: |
| Information Technology |
| Technical Drawing (Graphical Communications) |
| TAFE – 1 Year |
| Certificate IV Information Technology Systems (Programming) |
| University – 1 Year |
| Multimedia Systems (Programming) |
INTERESTS
- Mod Making (level design/modeling/programming)
- Playing Computer/Video Games – Mostly fast paced First Person Shooters…Quake Series, Doom Series, Battlefield 2 etc. Also console sidescroller platformers, Mario World (1 & 2), Mario Kart
- Basketball
- Pool
- Swimming
- Movies… can’t see enough!
- TV Series – Family Guy, Scrubs, Stargate, Firefly
- My motorbike
- My lovely girlfriend
- … and our Siberian Huskies!
PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Lectures/Presentations – Monash University and LaTrobe (Telstra Dome, IT Careers Expo 2005)
Monash University:
I delivered a presentation on the process involved with a typical game development cycle in the games industry. I also went on to explain the basics of some of the different types of technology that would be used on different platforms to help give the students an overall understanding of how the industry works.
LaTrobe:
“Ben Darling was a level designer long before he joined Torus Games. His skills were mostly self-taught, making levels for Duke Nukem and Quake, including all the programming and level building in between. This took him through packages such as GTK Radiant and 3D Studio Max. His other skills include Java, Flash / Action Script, OpenGL and C programming.
Ben joined Torus Games after finishing his Bachelor of Multimedia Systems in Programming at Monash University. His responsibilities since joining have included AI scripting, path-finding, level design, level building and entity placement for a number of projects on PS2, N-Gage, PSP and GBA. The projects consisted of first person shooters, side scrolling platformers and third person adventures. Ben's current project is a new style of game for him on the PS2.”
Re: http://luis.latrobe.edu.au/SciTechRegistration/sessionHtml/sessionB-3.htm
http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/content/download/2524/10151/file/Ben+Darling.pdf |
