Experience

• Lead Weapon Artist at GameMod LLC

  Remote, BY

  May 2023 - December 2025

  •Pipeline Standardization: Established unified hardsurface production pipelines, ensuring visual parity and technical alignment across all weapon, vehicle, and gadget assets.
  
  • Procedural Workflow: Architected an art-directable procedural texturing pipeline; created smart materials and presets that handle 70% of the base-pass work automatically while leaving full creative control for final artistic polish. Developed a library of Substance utility nodes, filters, and generators used by artists across the studio to streamline production.
  
  • Technical R&D: Spearheaded the development of weapon/vehicle skin systems and custom Unreal Engine shaders, optimizing for visual fidelity, build size, and production/iteration speed.
  
  • Team Leadership: Directed a distributed team of artists across multiple locations, establishing clear communication and feedback to ensure technical alignment and remote collaboration.
  
  • Talent Acquisition: Collaborated with HR to vet portfolios and conduct technical interviews, playing a key role in the selection and onboarding of new team members.
  
  • Internal Education: Conducted advanced masterclasses on procedural material creation in Substance Designer, providing mentorship to both weapon and environment artists to bridge technical skill gaps.

• Procedural Material Artist | Substance Designer Specialist at Poliigon.com

  Remote

  February 2018 - January 2023

  Contributed to one of the industry's leading 3D asset libraries, developing high-fidelity procedural material solutions used by over 3 million artists worldwide across ArchViz, Game Dev, and VFX.

  • Library Development: Engineered and maintained an extensive library of photorealistic procedural materials, ensuring 100% PBR accuracy and visual consistency across hundreds of real-world surface categories.
  
  • Tool & Node Engineering: Developed custom Substance Designer utility nodes, noises, and filters to standardize internal workflows and empower the global artist team with faster production tools.
  
  • Technical Look-Dev: Performed advanced R&D to replicate complex surface micro-details (e.g., specific roughness variations and edge-wear patterns), setting the benchmark for realism in the Poliigon ecosystem.
  
  • Global Collaboration: Partnered with an international team of artists and developers to ensure asset scalability, technical excellence, and seamless integration across major 3D software (Blender, Unreal, 3ds Max).

• Senior 3D Artist / Texture supervisor at Wargaming.net

  Minsk, BY

  June 2014 - January 2017

  Owned the texturing quality bar for high-fidelity vehicle assets on Wargaming's flagship title, balancing historical accuracy with cutting-edge PBR workflows.

  • Texture Supervision: Upheld and enforced PBR texturing standards across a team of 8 vehicle artists. Conducted regular art reviews, provided constructive feedback/paint-overs, and established best practices for material consistency.
  
  • End-to-End Production: Executed the full-cycle production of complex, game-ready vehicles - from high-poly sculpting (ZBrush) and retopology to UV mapping and baking.
  
  • Pipeline Optimization: Collaborated with Technical Artists to implement and optimize assets within the BigWorld Engine, ensuring high visual fidelity while adhering to strict performance budgets.
  
  • Technical R&D: Leveraged Substance Designer to create procedural texturing pipeline for metal wear and tank-specific weathering effects, significantly reducing the texturing time for the wider vehicle team.

• Freelance 3D / Material Artist at Freelance

  Remote

  October 2012 - Present

  During this period, I collaborated with leading AAA studios and elite outsourcing houses (Blacksteinn, Corbax Studio) to deliver high-fidelity assets and procedural material solutions for world-class titles.

  • Metro Exodus (4A Games): Modeled and textured environmental assets, vehicles, and props. Developed a bespoke semi-procedural Substance Designer workflow to ensure visual consistency across complex post-apocalyptic assets.
  
  • Control (Remedy Entertainment): Textured high-complexity hero props in collaboration with the Blacksteinn team, meeting Remedy’s strict artistic and technical benchmarks.
  
  • Lords of the Fallen (CI Games): Collaborated with Corbax Studio to create a suite of procedural materials in Substance Designer to support modular environment art, alongside the creation of standalone hero assets.
  
  • A Plague Tale: Innocence (Asobo Studio): Partnered with Corbax Studio to develop a set of procedural materials, focusing on historical accuracy and atmospheric material definition.
  
  • Other Projects: Delivered game-ready assets for various unannounced and released titles, specializing in hardsurface modeling, PBR texturing, and procedural pipeline support.

• Level Artist / Prop Artist at Saber Interactive

  Sainpetersburg, RU

  August 2012 - June 2014

  - Created level geometry and dressed scenes for an open-world action game, using Maya and the proprietary Saber 3D Engine.
  
  - Produced game-ready props end-to-end, including high-poly/low-poly modeling, UV mapping, baking, and PBR texturing.