Profile ___________________________________________________________

Multiple years of multiplatform animation and graphical experience

Never too old to learn new stuff, because learning new stuff keeps you sharp

Never stops looking to make my work faster and more efficient

Loves working in (small) teams and the feedback they provide

Skills ____________________________________________________________

Art Skills: 3D Character Rigging and Animation, Low and High polygon 3D Modeling, Enemy/Combat/Gameplay Design, Environment Artist, Story-boarding.

Software Skills:
Animations/Modeling : Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Blender, Autodesk Maya (basic)
Engine Exp. : Unity3D, Unreal Engine 4

Experience _______________________________________________________

FREELANCE GAMEDEVELOPMENT (Owner) (2013 – present)
(Character) Animator/3D Modeler/Environment Artist

Selected accomplishments and assignments:

• Created realistic character animations for a game in cooperation with Anvil Game Studios (lead animator)
• Created realistic character animations for a civil war game in cooperation with Flying Squirrel Entertainment (lead animator)
• Animated all the characters for Spongebob Squarepants: Plankton’s Robotic Revenge in cooperation with Engine Software

CURVEPOINT STUDIOS (Owner) (2012 – present)
Animator/3D Modeler/Environment Artist/And more

Selected accomplishments and assignments:

• Created various interactive 3D architectural walkthroughs combining great visuals and game elements
• Created brands with mascots, websites and explainer-videos

ENGINE SOFTWARE B.V. (2007 – 2012)
Lead Animator/3D Modeler/Environment Artist

At Engine Software, I created original animations for humanoids, animal, creatures and developed various rigging systems suited for use on different projects. Also I worked very closely with the coding department for smooth implementations. Contributed by creating 3D characters and environments. Developed combat and gameplay systems. And created various enemy designs.

Selected accomplishments and assignments:

• When the company was in desperate need of an animator, I volunteered to take this responsibility and took self studies at home, which saved the company time and resources
• I created a trailer (from story-boarding to final version) for our latest game using already shot material. I used this material in creative ways and created footage that suited the game more. This material is now used for marketing purposes.
  The trailer can be found here: Flip the Core Trailer
• Was responsible for creating reusable rigging systems. This led to less time spent on initial character setup at the start of projects and more time spent on actual animating.
• Played a key role in developing a new animation pipeline, resulting in a much smoother and higher quality animation work-flow and almost burden free for the coding department to get the animations up and running ingame.
• On extremely tight deadlines, I applied my Autodesk Maya knowledge to fix various characters and animations which we received in terrible state from hired studio's. This resulted in successful milestone deliveries on time.
• On earlier projects for the company, when creating animations, I followed (to my own insight) the PEGI guidelines closely. Because of this, no animations had to be redone, saving money.
• On our first Nintendo 3Ds projects, i created various animation and export tools, which saved me a lot of time in the course of these projects.

INTERNSHIP ENGINE SOFTWARE B.V. (2006 – 2007)
3D Modeler/Environment Artist

Created various 3D environments for the racegame Stateshift on the Sony PSP.
Received the same responsibilities as a full time employee, and delivered my work to the same standards.

Published Games __________________________________________________

I have worked on 20 published games (for PSP, Nintendo DS and 3DS and Wii) including: Suite Life II: Circle of spies (Nds), Hop (Nds), Mahjong 3D: Warriors of The Emperor (3Ds) and Secret Mysteries in London (3Ds)

Education ________________________________________________________

Multimedia Design and Technologies, Enschede (Netherlands) (2000 – 2007)
HAVO, Christelijk College Nassau-Veluwe, Harderwijk (1994 – 2000)

Personalia _______________________________________________________

Name:	Christiaan van Hoegee
E-Mail:	cvanhoegee@gmail.com
Skype:	z1rk00
Nationality:	Dutch
Known languages:	Dutch (primary), English