Jessica Cookston - 3D Character Artist

Jessica Cookston

3D Character Artist

Huntsville, United States

About

My name is Jess Cookston and I am a 3D character artist! I've been working in the games industry since 2016 starting off with contracting then making my way to working in serious games for 3.5 years. Now I freelance and work with Lazer Bread Games on an upcoming visual novel!

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Skills

Software proficiency

Maya

Unreal Engine

Substance Painter

Photoshop

Illustrator

CLIP STUDIO PAINT

Unity

Affinity Designer

3DCoat

ZBrushCore

Marmoset Toolbag

Productions

- Video Game
  Potato Paradox Plus
- Year
  2022
- Role
  2D Character Artist
- Company
  Lazer Bread Games
- Video Game
  Salt
- Year
  2018
- Role
  Contracted 3D Modeler
- Company
  Lavaboots Studios LLC

Experience

Character Artist at Lazer Bread Games
Huntsville, United States of America
December 2018 - Present
Character artist designing and creating character assets for the upcoming title Potato Paradox Plus. Also responsible for marketing related assets such as steam page imagery and logo design.
Digital Artist at Intuitive Research and Technology Corporation
Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America
May 2017 - December 2020
Responsible for accurate, 3d model recreations of real world objects to be used in real time and prerendered products. Helped introduce and implement a streamlined pipeline for the art team. Interfaced with customers to create tasking for Redmine based off of the contracts needs. Managed various projects until delivery to customer.
3D Artist - Contract at Lava Boots Studios LLC.
Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America
November 2016 - January 2017
Worked remotely on several in game assets. Worked with the developers to meet their design needs and kept communication to meet design changes as they arose.