Summary
Principal material artist and Adobe Substance 3D specialist. I build production materials, custom Designer tools and smart materials for games, VR and simulation.
Recent work: Batman: Arkham Shadow (Camouflaj / Meta), Half-Life 2 RTX (Orbifold Studios), Iron Man VR, Phantom Fury. Adobe Substance 3D content collaborator. Material and tech-art mentoring at the Royal Netherlands Navy simulation centre.
Open to targeted consulting, material direction and mentorship.
Skills
Software proficiency
Productions
- Video GameBatman: Arkham Shadow
- Year2024
- RoleMaterial Artist/Consultant
- CompanyCamouflaj, Meta
- Video GameHalf-Life 2 RTX
- Year2024
- RoleMaterial Artist
- CompanyOrbifold Studios
- Video GamePhantom Fury
- Year2023
- RoleMaterial Artist
- CompanySlipgate Ironworks
- Video GameWarpaws
- Year2023
- RoleTechnical Artist
- CompanySlipgate Ironworks
- Video GameProject EVAC
- Year2023
- RoleMaterial/Tech Artist
- CompanyRoyal Dutch Navy Simulation Centre
- Video GameIron Man VR
- Year2022
- RoleMaterial Consultant
- CompanyCamouflaj/Meta
- Video GameLanding Craft Vehicle Personnel
- Year2022
- RoleMaterial/Tech Artist
- CompanyRoyal Dutch Navy Simulation Centre
- Video GameTorpedo Reload Drill
- Year2021
- RoleMaterial/Tech Artist
- CompanyRoyal Dutch Navy Simulation Centre
- Video GameZero Latency VR - Zombie Survival
- Year2016
- RoleTexture/Shader artist
- CompanyZero Latency
- Video GameShattered Origins - Guardians of Unity
- Year2011
- RoleTexture artist
- CompanyElder Games
- Video GameArcan
- Year2009
- RoleTexture/Shader artist
- CompanyElder Games
Experience
- Principal Material Artist at Royal Dutch NavyDen Helder, NLMay 2020 - Present
Principal Material Artist at the Maritime Simulation Centre. Procedural materials, shaders and lookdev for VR training in Unreal, authored in Substance 3D Designer and Painter. I set the material bar, run workshops, and mentor interns so graphs and master materials stay production-ready.
Started as reservist (Sergeant Specific Expertise); civilian contract at the same centre from 2022.
- Material Artist/Consultant at Procedural DesignJanuary 2014 - May 2025
Freelance material and technical artist: procedural Substance graphs, tools and Unreal materials for games, film, archviz and commercial work. I help studios build reusable material systems and robust artist workflows they can grow on.
- Material Consultant at Alta VRMay 2024 - June 2024
Short consultancy: custom Substance 3D tools to speed up material authoring and tighten artist workflow.
- Content Consultant at Adobe Substance 3dNLFebruary 2024 - June 2024
Created content for the Substance 3D Suite with the Adobe team — production examples that show how the tools are meant to be used.
- Material Artist on Half-Life 2 RTX at Orbifold StudiosOctober 2023 - June 2024
Production materials and decals for the Half-Life 2 RTX remaster (Orbifold), targeting the Remix / path-traced pipeline.
- Material Consultant at MetaOctober 2022 - December 2023
Contracted via Meta, embedded at Camouflaj. Materials and artist tools for Batman: Arkham Shadow.
- Material consultant at CamouflajJune 2021 - October 2022
Material/tech-art support on Iron Man VR (Quest 2). Substance workflows and production materials for headset constraints.
- Material Consultant at Grid & CubeFebruary 2022 - April 2022
Substance 3D tools for a PBR library spanning stylized to photoreal, games and film. Scalable procedural workflows built for consistency across projects.
- Content collaborator at Adobe Substance 3DApril 2021 - November 2021
Content for the Substance 3D Painter library — materials and examples used by artists worldwide.
- Technical Artist at Slipgate Ironworks/3D RealmsAalborgSeptember 2020 - October 2021
Materials, textures and Unreal optimization. Visual quality with performance ready to ship.
(Warpaws & Phantom Fury) - Material Artist at Gametextures.comSeattleJuly 2017 - October 2017
Materials and patterns for a commercial real-time texture library.
- Lead Artist at Elder gamesFebruary 2007 - April 2011
Led textures, UI, environment maps/skyboxes and VFX. One clear visual language across the project.
(Arcan, Shattered Origins, Ruin) - Private First Class at Royal Dutch ArmyMarch 2002 - July 2005
Discipline, training, and working inside a large operational organization.