ROLF MICHAEL MOHR

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	*PERSONAL* Mr. ROLF MICHAEL MOHR Nationality: British
	*EDUCATION* Felstead School: Entrance Art Scholarship Nottingham University : BA (Hons) in Architecture and Environmental Design Gnomon School of Visual Effects: Digital Matte Painting
	*EXPERIENCE* ______________________________________________________________________ 2K GAMES , Novato Jan 2018 — Present UNANNOUNCED TITLE Senior Concept Artist ______________________________________________________________________
	TELLTALE GAMES , San Rafael July 2016 — Dec 2017 BATMAN: THE ENEMY WITHIN Concept Artist MARVEL'S GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: THE TELLTALE SERIES Concept Artist BATMAN: THE TELLTALE SERIES Concept Artist ______________________________________________________________________
	GRAVISTAR LABS , Austin March 2016 — July 2016 Art Director on CODA DA CAPO gothic-themed Metroidvania style 2.5D adventure. ______________________________________________________________________ FREELANCE CONCEPT ARTIST, Austin July 2014 — Present TIMELESS: CONTINUUM RECON VR SHORT Concept & Matte Artist HBO's THE LEFTOVERS Storyboard & Concept Artist on Season 3 ROOSTER TEETH PRODUCTIONS RWBY Animated Series Storyboard Artist BLUR STUDIOS Middle Earth: Shadow of War - Launch Trailer Storyboard Artist The Division - TV Commercial Storyboard Artist KELLERHOUSE, INC. Untitled David Fincher Project Pitch concepts DIGITAL DOMAIN Untitled Stan Lee Project Storyboards WHITEMOON DREAMS Concept art for unannounced Sony Morpheus VR project.
	______________________________________________________________________ Feb 2015 - Sept 2015 BATTLECRY STUDIOS Concept design for new Battlecry IP. Working under creative direction of Viktor Antonov, visual design director of Zenimax Media. ______________________________________________________________________
	June 2010 - July 2014 CERTAIN AFFINITY, Austin HALO: THE MASTER CHIEF COLLECTION Concept Artist on the new Xbox One remaster of the classic Halo 2 - multiplayer CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS Concept Artist. All platforms including Xbox One, PS4 - multiplayer HALO 4 Lead Concept Artist - multiplayer ______________________________________________________________________
	April 2011 - Present PRECOG STUDIOS, Austin, London, LA Director of Pre-Viz, Animation & VFX team for video game and motion picture production. ______________________________________________________________________
	June 2010 - Present Freelance Art Director & Concept Artist, Austin HALO ANNIVERSARY Environment concepts for XBox 360 revamp of the original Halo CE ACTIVISION IP Character concept designs for licensed IP ______________________________________________________________________
	June 2010 - May 2011 HELLFIRE GAMES , Austin NOVUS PRIME Art Director on brand new PS3 multiplayer space combat game for Playstation Home. ______________________________________________________________________
	Sept 2009 - April 2011 MICRORAPTOR GAMES , Austin Creative Director of small video game development startup. Developed pitches and prototypes for first party PSN and XBLA titles. ______________________________________________________________________
	Mar 2010 - June 2010 SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT, San Diego Freelance Concept Artist on various first party PS3 projects: PLAYSTATION MOVE HEROES Concept art for Jak & Sly environments for this game for new PlayStation Move game PLAYSTATION HOME Architectural designs for Lakeside Apartment downloadable content Concept art for other Home locations TWISTED METAL PS3 Concept art for intro cinematic storyboard sequence of this highly anticipated sequel. ______________________________________________________________________
	Sept 2008 - June 2009 DISNEY JUNCTION POINT STUDIOS, Austin DISNEY'S EPIC MICKEY Director of Visual Development on Warren Spector's high profile Wii title. Worked closely with Warren Spector supervising the artistic direction and visual style of all art-related content: Concept, Character, Environment, Animation, Cinematics and FX and a large overseas outsourcing department. ______________________________________________________________________
	July 2008 - Sept 2008 VIRTUE ARTS , Los Angeles LUNAR RACING CHAMPIONSHIP Concept artist on PC / X-Box 360 arcade style game with NASA and Discovery Channel tie-ins. ______________________________________________________________________
	July 2002 - June 2008 INSOMNIAC GAMES, Los Angeles RATCHET & CLANK FUTURE: A Crack in Time Concept artist for PS3 sequel. RATCHET & CLANK FUTURE: Tools of Destruction The classic platformer comes to PlayStation 3... Concept artist for this award winning title which the New York Times compared with "Pixar" graphics... RESISTANCE 2 - PS3 Concept artist on the forthcoming monster of a sequel to the best-selling PS3 game. RESISTANCE: Fall Of Man - PS3 Full time concept artist: Designed environments and created additional effects for first person shooter. Number 1 selling launch title for Sony's new PlayStation 3 console. ______________________________________________________________________
	RATCHET: Deadlocked The fourth installment... RATCHET & CLANK: Up Your Arsenal Third in the series, rated the best so far.. RATCHET & CLANK: Going Commando Sequel to this hugely successful game RATCHET & CLANK The innovative, genre-defining action platformer for PlayStation 2 Modeled, textured and designed stylized, fantasy environments using Maya and in-house tools / plug-ins. ______________________________________________________________________
	Jan 2002 - May 2002 NEVERSOFT, Los Angeles TONY HAWK'S PRO-SKATER 4 The classic series continues, for PlayStation 2, being developed in tandem with X-Box and Gamecube versions. Modeled and textured highly realistic real-time environments using 3DStudio Max and in-house tools / plug-ins. ______________________________________________________________________
	Aug. 2001- Jan 2002 LUCKY CHICKEN GAMES, Santa Monica ROBOTECH: The Macross Saga Space Shooter for Game Boy Advance Background level art - tile sets, menu graphics ______________________________________________________________________
	Feb. 1999 NOVALOGIC, Calabasas 'NECROCIDE' Horror game for PC CDROM Conceptual designs for characters, environments, weapons. Modeling and texturing of player character, enemies, 3d buildings, weapons, player interface.
	DELTA FORCE 3 multi-player combat sim for PC CDROM. Character designs for and additional modeling / texturing of player characters, buildings, vehicles etc. TACHYON: The Fringe space combat game for PC CDROM and networked multi-play. Designed all spaceships, starbases, characters etc. Used 3DStudio Max to model and texture-map real-time ships, bases and pilot characters. Modeled and animated main character for intro cinematic sequence. ______________________________________________________________________
	Nov. 1996 DREAMWORKS INTERACTIVE, Los Angeles T'AI FU Aracde combat game for PlayStation Menu graphics and additional environment modeling. TRESPASSER: JURASSIC PARK game for PC CDROM Modeling and texturing of huge real-time environments and dinosaurs, using 3DStudio Max and in-house tools / world editors. ______________________________________________________________________
	1996 SYSTEM 3 ARCADE, London Design proposal (based on earlier docs) and initial stage development for LAST NINJA 3D game for Sony PlayStation ______________________________________________________________________
	1995 SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT, London PORSCHE CHALLENGE PlayStation Worked on storyboards & early design stages - the open-top cars with animated, visible character. Used Alias Power Animator on to convert CAD model into real-time low polygon model, built and texture-mapped track, buildings, environment etc for US track.
Samurai	Co-designed MEAN ARENAS game prototype: 4-player futuristic gladiator beat-em-up Designed characters and built texture-mapped, real-time PlayStation figures. Co-designed a fairly epic sci-fi game called RESISTANCE about alien invasion.
	Also at Sony I created a cartoon strip called 'POLYGON REDUCTION MAN' for their Newsletter
	Designed 'virtual' environments for CYBERJACK prototype game - a DESCENT style shoot-em-up set in cyberspace. Created PlayStation format textures on Photoshop, produced real-time models for Playstation fly-through demo	Cyber-Sentry'
	Storyboards for PlayStation FMV demo and rendered various sequences in Softimage. ______________________________________________________________________
	1991 CORE DESIGN LTD. Derby, England. Co- designed DOCTOR WHO 3d adventure game for Sega, a 3 time line proposal, Tom Baker was confirmed as on board to do narrated FMV cinematic sequences, but it turned out Sega couldn't afford the licencing fee from the BBC. Box cover artwork : ENCHANTIA, UNIVERSE, DRAGONSTONE, BC RACERS 3D packages: 3DStudio v. 4.0 and Wavefront introductory course.
	Designed story for UNIVERSE, a space-fantasy graphic adventure (on Amiga, CD32, PC and CD ROM) and acted as coordinater/art director. Designed and painted all the backdrops. Created rotoscoped main character, animated on DeluxeAnim (Amiga) Also created additional icon graphics, manual design, background story material etc.	UNIVERSE
	Created scene layouts and painted all the digitized backgrounds for CURSE OF ENCHANTIA graphic adventure (for Amiga, PC and CD ROM) Also created icons and additional sprites in DPaint and Brilliance on Amiga.
	______________________________________________________________________ Continued with architectural perspectives / artist’s impressions on a freelance basis for Sarah Brown Artists agency, Ealing, London : Freelance illustration: Paperback: Reach For Tomorrow - Arthur C. Clarke Hardback: Tripoint - C.J. Cherryh Of Monsters and Men - William Tenn Here Comes Civilization Vol. 2 - William Tenn Misc. Illustrations: Games Workshop - White Dwarf, Space Fleet R. Talsorian - Cyberpunk UK Archon Gaming - Noir series Fantasy Forge - Kryomek Dark Horse Comics UK - Aliens, Star Wars Machine Phase graphic novel
	______________________________________________________________________ 1987 Stefan Barcikowski architectural model makers, Nottingham. ______________________________________________________________________ 1986 Year-out trainee architectural draughtsman for Sutherland Craig Architects, Nottingham. During this time I attended a training course in the "SONATA" architectural CAD system
	*CONCEPTING & VISUAL DESIGN*Many of these were "Special Projects" involving visual and story development for various film/merchandising cross-overs - where toy companies such as Hasbro and movie studios collaborate on project development.
	MUTANT CHRONICLES - PINEWOOD STUDIOS/CINERGI FILMS Conceptual sketches for starships, escape pods, and architecture.
	THE NUTTIEST NUTCRACKER - GOLDEN FILMS Layouts for architecture and environments — fantasy animated film
	HELEN OF TROY: EXO - DREAMWORKS / HASBRO Mech warrior designs for retro-mythological Dreamworks film concept.	'mech' robot
	COWBOYS & ALIENS - DREAMWORKS / HASBRO Alien and vehicle designs for Dreamworks film concept based on American Indians etc.
	SUPERMAN LIVES - WARNER BROS. / HASBRO Character, costume, ship designs for Warner Bros. 'Superman Lives' including main Brainiac & alien technology suit concept
	BATMAN - WARNER BROS. / HASBRO Conceptual ideas for costumes, accessories etc. for new tech-based Batman toy line
	FOX KID’S TV - FOX / HASBRO Character development for Manga-style robot TV character
	BEAST MACHINES: TRANSFORMERS - HASBRO / MAINFRAME Character designs for the new version of the popular Beast Machines TV show.
	SMALL SOLDIERS 2 - - DREAMWORKS / UNIVERSAL / HASBRO Designs for makeshift vehicles and robots made from parts of toys / household items.
	MEN IN BLACK 2 - COLUMBIA / HASBRO Story development - various treatments for sequel and designs for new flying car.
	JURASSIC PARK 3 - DREAMWORKS / UNIVERSAL / HASBRO Visual development of high tech equipment, weapons, gear
	STAR WARS - JEDI ACADEMY - HASBRO / LUCASFILM "Ideation" of ships, vehicles, gear etc for the young Jedis. Also concepts for assistant droids and Jedi / Sith giant robots.
	AFTER DARK - Hans Canosa Storyboards for supernatural thriller currently in development.

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