Mat Matera

Managed the development of the artwork for GSN’s flagship product in Unity.

● Coached the art team in their development through 1:1s and reviews.

● Coordinated production with engineers and project managers.

● Created UI, animations and effects in Unity.

● Oversaw the development of game assets.

Lead the design for the studios first casino product.

● Including cohesive UI, environments, games objects, animations and marketing.

● Worked with artists towards a re-branding. 

After creating their first slot machine, I helped to scale up the art department.

● Creating the art pipeline

● Team building

● Visual reviews.

Facebook world builder game that I created art for, including:

● UI design and art

● Character rendering pipeline

●  Terrain rendering

●  Overall lighting and color

● Training the team in Asia to continue development of the game.

●        HUD art for console

●        Particle effects for the HUD using Trinigy/Havok and 3ds Max

Creating new effects for a more exciting racing experience.

● Dynamic reflections

● "Time of day" lighting changes

● Specular effects for the environment.

● Created the environments, character lighting and UI.

● Handled the character rigging in 3ds Max.

● Oversaw outsourced art for the character models and textures.

Officially titled "Playhouse Disney Preschool Time Online"

● Created concept and game art.

● Created the design for the UI.

● Handled the story animation integration.

● Created 3d character models and animations.

Software that I used for these games were: 3ds Max, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and Director.

I was the 2d Art Director for this game. 

● Focusing on the color relationships

● Creating a convincing illusion of light by textures alone.

● Coordinated in-house art development for the racing environments

● Created environment textures and lighting.

● Overall game color balance.

Software used: Photoshop and Maya,

● Created the UI content, design, and animation.

● Using 3ds Max, Flash and Rad Games software.

Art direction for this game.

● Created lighting, modeling and animation for this game. 

● Oversaw outsourced development for environment, characters and animations.

● Rigging and skinning of characters.

●  Asset integration for the models, textures, and effects. 

●  Worked with outsourced artists and in-house engineers on creating the environment effects. 

●  Created environments and UI for this game. 

●  Handled the art integration from other studios.

Designed these games connecting Hello Kitty IP to our game engine.

● Concept art rendering

● Game asset integration and cleanup.

● Created the art for these games with a mix of 3ds Max, Photoshop, and illustrator. 

● Created layouts, objects, backgrounds and animations.

● New IP creation for Hangman and Word Hunter .

● Created the UI for this game.

● Built game objects and their animations.

● Created a marketing video using 3ds Max animations compiled in Adobe Premiere.

Nintendo Wii launch title.

● Oversaw the lighting and overall color balance for this game.

● Created a series of heads representing NBA players

● Created crowd animations for this game.

Rendered win screens for Nintendo's Game Boy Color.

● Mentored artists on texture creation to create a convincing illusion of light.

● Created environment textures.

I created symbol art and animations for this slot machine.

It was built in Unity, for a company capitalizing on the legalized marijuana market.

This was my first game job. 

● Textured vehicles and environments.

● Lead the art development leveraging the 3d accelerator cards.