Experience

• Technical Artist at Ubisoft Winnipeg

  Winnipeg, CA

  July 2022 - Present

  - Map performance assessment
  
  - Environment art performance and optimization guidance
  
  - Prop optimization
  
  - Communication between various global departments
  
  - Various technical trouble-shooting related to game asset performance and bug-fixing
  
  - Assisted with in-house tools creation for art teams

• Technical Artist - Animation at Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies

  Remote, Canada

  April 2022 - July 2022

  Animation fixing, rig testing, motion blur fixing

• 3D Instructor at Red River College

  Winnipeg, Canada

  September 2021 - Present

  Motion and Animation 1 | Game Development - Art:
  
  Teach the basics of rigging and animation using Maya and Unreal Engine for use in games.

• Show/Shot Finaling Artist at Tangent Animation

  Winnipeg, Canada

  May 2020 - Present

  - scene clean-up
  
  - set dressing
  
  - technical animation/animation clean-up
  
  - render testing
  
  - render/pipeline troubleshooting
  
  - communicating between departments

• Freelance 3D Artist and Web Designer at jessemarofke.com

  Winnipeg, Canada

  January 2011 - Present

  I'm always up for a freelance project.

  For almost ten years, I've been working/contracting as a Graphic/Web designer and most recently opening up as a freelance 3D Artist.

  I've built over 250 websites, made a number of logos, and am on the lookout for new 3D opportunities.

• VDC Intern at Bird Construction

  Winnipeg, Canada

  April 2019 - April 2019

  - Explored pipeline workflow options getting 3D models from Maya/3DS Max to Revit
  
  - Wrote documentation on workflow findings
  
  - Created 3D assets for use in Revit; assets were created in Maya and/or 3DS Max
  
  - Created tileable textures for use in Revit; textures were created in Photoshop and/or Substance Painter

• Web Designer at Websites.ca

  Winnipeg, Canada

  August 2015 - September 2018

  New website builds and website maintenance. Worked with Wordpress and the Adobe Creative Suite, mostly.

• 3D Intern at Complex Games

  Winnipeg, Canada

  May 2013 - June 2013

  At Complex Games Inc. I was tasked with creating fully textured low-poly 3D models to be used in a client's mobile game (Ducktales: Scrooge's Loot). I also worked on creating renders to be used for advertising and marketing purposes for the client, as well as doing a little QA game testing.

  For these tasks I used Autodesk Maya, Unity, and Adobe Photoshop.