William Longworth
303 Oxpens Road
Cary, NC 27513
(919)462-8078
balongworth@earthlink.net
bill.labratsgames.com

Software Experience: 3DS Max 9, Character Studio 4, FaceFX, Photoshop CS2, ProMotion, Premiere, Gamebryo, Renderware

Currently learning: Maya, Zbrush

Game Titles: 

Spiderman-The Animated Series   (SNES/Genesis for Acclaim) Level Artist 
Mutant Chronicles   (SNES/Genesis for Playmates) Level Artist

Flintstones: Bedrock Bowling   (PSX, PC for Southpeak) PC Lead Artist
Trivial Pursuit   (Open TV for Telia) Lead Artist 
Mahjongg   (Open TV for Telia) Lead Artist 
Tiger Woods PGA Golf ’99   (PSX for Electronic Arts) Lead Artist 
NCAA Football 2001   (PSX for Electronic Arts) Lead Artist 
PowerPuff Girls: Paint The Townsville Green   (GBC for BAM!) Level Artist 
PowerPuff Girls: Battle Him   (GBC for BAM!) Level Artist 
Powerpuff Girls: Mojo-Jojo-A-Go-Go   (GBA for BAM!) Level Artist 
Sports Illustrated for Kids: Baseball   (GBA for BAM!) Lead Artist 
Sports Illustrated for Kids: Football   (GBA for BAM!) Background Artist 
Strike Force Bowling/Fast Lanes Bowling   (PS2, XBOX, PC for LAB Rats) Art Director 
Boulder Dash (Episodes I-III)   (PC for ZXGames) Designer and 2d/3d artist

Unpublished: 

PowerPuff Girls   (Gamecube for BAM!) 3d artist
Vampire: The Masquerade   (PC for GT Interactive) Background Artist
Colliderz   (PSX, PC, Saturn for ASC) Lead Artist
BeachHead 2000   (PSX forInfogrames/Wizardworks) Artist
World Tour Bowling   (PSP, DS for LAB Rats) Art Director

In Progress:

Exolon (PC for ZXGames)Designer and 2d/3d artist
3 casual titles (DS for LAB Rats) Art direction
Mercenaries 2 (PS3, 360 for Facepro) Facial animation

Professional Experience:

Freelance Artist
2003-Present

• Project management and scheduling

• contractor hiring and supervision

• Game Design

• Contract negotiation

• Environment and character modeling, texturing, rigging, and animation

• 2d tile and sprite art

• High poly normal mapped environment work

• Facial animation

Lead Artist
2000-2002
Sennari Interactive

• Lead artist supervising on NCAA 2001 for Electronic Arts

• Tracked 10,000+ assets , including 3D stadium models, player uniforms, team logos, 3d motion capture files, and in-game cinematics

• Creation of many of the above mentioned art assets as well

• Worked closely with Electronic Arts to create a pathway for importing, cleaning, and exporting the motion capture data in Maya 3.0 while preserving their original animation set up

• Wrote all the necessary “actions” for Photoshop that helped automate the creation of the hundreds of team specific graphics for the various sections of the game

• Designed and drew the art for two Game Boy Color (GBC) Powerpuff Girl titles for a major contract crunch

• Worked on two Gameboy Advance (GBA) titles a baseball and football game, and as lead on the Baseball title.

• Created all the stadium art and animations for the both GBA sports titles

• Handled the level art for several stages for two PowerPuff Girls GBA title s

• Assisted with the 3D artwork for a PS1 conversion of a PC title, Beachhead 2000

• Painted mockups for a product pitch document for Virtua Tennis on the GBA

• Modeled and textured environments and characters for a Powerpuff Girls title for the Gamecube

Lead Artist
1996-2000
Adrenalin/Wanderlust Entertainment

• Art lead on Flintstones:Bedrock Bowling, Colliderz, Trival Pursuit, and Mahjongg.

• Management of art teams and assets

• Created with one other artist the pitch video that won the contract for Colliderz

• Modeled, textured, and animated assets for all projects

• Various design duties from ships to characters to levels

• Worked with Southpeak Interactive and Warner Brothers to ensure character models for Flintstones Bowling met with their design standards.

Artist
1994-1996
Western Technologies

• Created backgrounds, sprites, collision and spawning data for “Spiderman: The Animated Series” and “Mutant Chronicles: Doomtroopers” titles for the Super Nintendo and Genesis

• Designed game play for all levels I created and did additional work on all others.

• Created many sprite fx such as flame jets, missiles, grenades, etc.

• Modeled and animated the final boss for Mutant Chronicles.