AMANDA CROSBY

I was Associate Producer on Brutal Legend working for Double Fine and my personal game hero Tim Schafer. Job of a lifetime.

Managed all aspects of art production and project management from concept through final delivery

Responsibilities included:

Sprint planning and kickoff, backlog management and review, bug tracking and daily morning meetings

Developing and maintaining effective project plans and schedules for all elements of game development

Creating and evaluating tasks planned for each sprint for usefulness and efficiency

Assisting team leads in defining top priority tasks and clearing obstacles away to increase their overall efficacy

Forecasting, developing and executing staffing and resource plans required to deliver milestones on time to publisher

Identifying resource gaps and surpluses across teams and developing resourcing solutions and recommendations to resolve gaps or redeploy resources to maximize utilization and efficiency

Collecting and developing materials and editorial for art book for Brutal Legend

Budgeting, scheduling and reporting

Communications, both internally and externally, on all aspects of a project

Adding files to FMOD when needed for audio engine

Organizing and executing team building activities like ski weekends and rafting weekends, and other errata always part of producing like providing rides to tired engineers or artists late at night, handling lunch orders for meetings, prepping materials for meetings, making sure any milestone drop is 100% proofed and perfect before delivery to client or publisher, etc.

XBOX 360 and Playstation 2

Modeled in 3DS Max, exported to artCAM, set up and created toolpaths, milled on 4-axis Frog mill in standard EPS white foam. Done in three pieces: flip mill for wings, flip mill for body, hotwire for base.

While working for liquid development i had the good fortune to end up working with Harmonix on art for Rockband and Guitar Hero II for XBOX 360 and Playstation 2. I managed a team of over 20 out-of-house contractors combined with in-house artists to create all the instruments for the games. Secret: all my friends bands stickers are on one of the guitars in game.

Modeling, texturing, casting normals, materials, low poly, high poly zbrush, substance, handpainting - varied by project.

Projects:

Mage's Tale - low poly and normal casting, substance materials for Ogre

Seven Dragon Saga - low poly and normal casting + environment lego building + minor business development (dragon and other gray characters)

Hellgate - skin variations on husks and some weapons (not pictured)

Good V. Evil - evil castles 1-5, modeling and texturing

Fate - whole terrain modeling and texture, several of the buildings, entire graveyard, fountain, lanterns, and more

Freaky Creatures - Art Manager - did none of the art but managed all the art production for all characters and animation including animation and rigging critiques and feedback.

Nuts - blue bird 

Fluffy had to hold objects as well as himself up, so structure was important. Many mills were done to create all the parts: lathe mill for head, flip mills for both wings, lathe mill for both legs at once, flip mill for the tail, relief mill for clam-shell style parts for comb, hotwire for base. Great attention was paid to making him strong enough to support his own weight as well as that of a 4' bottle or 3' sign he was supposed to hold.

While working for liquid development i had the good fortune to end up working with Harmonix on art for Rockband and Guitar Hero II for XBOX 360 and Playstation 2. I managed a team of over 20 out-of-house contractors combined with in-house artists to create all the instruments for the games. Secret: all my friends bands stickers are on one of the guitars in game.

Various game assets for a couple of Disney's mobile games. There were a few more than this...

They wanted some ideas for what to do with the beautiful skull bottle. I had lots. They went with just the bottle in the end, but I mocked up many ideas and did some very experimental and successful circular lettering lathe milled then hotwired off a cylinder for one concept.

Art Management and production of assets from first person tunnels to third person buildings. Modeled in Maya. At first what we primarily were responsible for were UVs, then they gave us buildings to build as pictured, then they gave us entire underground rooms to design. Sadly those were cut and I don't currently have renders. We worked on Warhawk for over 2 years.

Websites, tshirts, perfume and lotion bottle packaging, postcards, logos, and everything in between.

This was actually a fairly straightforward mill, it was just large at almost 11 feet wide, 3 feet thick and 2.5 feet tall. Hotwire for letters and base, relief mill for the scrollwork Printed vinyl for stripes and bricks.

Many characters modeled and textured.

I was classically trained in drawing, painting and sculpture in school and feel it is an important foundation for digital work.

Meat is Murder

Can't Stand the Heat...

OldSkool

Mermaid

Love is a Gift

Skull and Crossed Bottles

Traditional Tattoo

Biohazard

i Scream

Many more were designed and pathed than actually made, but here are a few more: 

Mignon: character I created for a 4' white foam mill. 

Sazerac Mirror: my first foam work

Horseheads: designed for the racetrack based on their logo

Morsels: replacement sign for broken one

This is really old and had ridiculous poly constraints on it and didn't have the benefit of PBR or any fun things like that but shows an ability  to imagine and create those effects by hand when necessary.

I've been working on a new series of things which will appear here shortly...

Made for Halloween. Delicious red velvet cake inside (even though brain is grayish), disgusting coils of fondant as brain folds. Coated in a mixture of jams for just the right color of blood exposed to the air.