Experience

• Principal Lighting Artist at Mayhem Studio

  Bengalaru , IN

  August 2025 - Present

  Mayhem Studios is an India-based game developer focused on creating high-quality mobile titles for a global audience. Right now, the team is working on Gang Wars, an ambitious battle royale experience set in a gritty urban world, blending competitive gameplay with a unique art and narrative style. I’m thrilled to be joining as Principal Lighting Artist to help bring this world to life—making sure every street corner, neon sign, and dramatic showdown feels immersive and cinematic.

• Principal Lighting Artist at Mad Head Games

  Belgrade, RS

  January 2025 - Present

  • Short term contract to aid the company and projects on lighting for games and cinematic.
  
  • Using my specialty for start-up, growing or studios needing to build a proper lighting workflow among the teams.
  
  • Collaborate with award-winning video game developer Mad Head Games under Saber Interactive to enhance lighting workflow for current and future games.
  
  • Conduct audits on company pipeline to optimize lighting processes and improve overall efficiency.
  
  • Implement innovative lighting solutions to enhance visual quality and user experience for their video games.

• Lead Lighting Artist at Gunzilla Games

  Frankfurt, DE

  January 2024 - Present

  Building a lighting team up to 10-12 people.
  
  Defining lighting pipeline for Lumens
  
  Defining best practices nanite and 3d modeling to avoid poor lighting.
  
  Defining best practices for PBR for materials to avoid poor lighting
  
  Managing and discussing expectations with Directors and CEO
  
  Building both cinematic and game lighting team
  
  Training other Lighting Lead
  
  Establishing interior and exterior open world lighting for battleroyale game.
  
  Owning and lighting specific locations
  
  Dealing with multiple lighting locations and scenarios outside of the main game.
  
  Establishing requirements for tools and systems that engineering and tech art can develop
  
  Supporting other departments such as VFX, Tech Art, and 3D.
  
  Coordinating meetings, problem solving and tools development.
  
  Delegation and team growth building.
  
  Feedback and support.
  
  Lighting Art Direction.
  
  Color grading
  
  Nanite Workflow
  
  Lumens Workflow
  
  Post Process workflow across the game
  
  Optimization
  
  And so on

• Principal Lighting Artist at Noxnoctis

  Valencia, ES

  October 2023 - January 2024

  I am hired to light and help the team with 50 environments in Unreal Engine for a Horror VR Escape Room type of game called OVRDARK in 7 weeks for an important milestone delivery.

• Senior Lighting Artist at Interior Night

  London, United Kingdom

  January 2020 - Present

  Senior Lighting Artist for As Dusk Falls at Interior Night an exclusive Microsoft title.

• Lighting Artist at Ubisoft Bordeaux

  BORDEAUX, France

  November 2019 - Present

  Lighting Artist for Episodes for Ghost Recon Breakpoint

• Technical Artist (Freelancing) at IronBelly Studios

  Montreal, Canada

  May 2019 - Present

  - In engine work with shaders, textures, materials, lighting, post effect for American Football game.
  
  - In engine work with shaders, textures, materials, lighting, post effect for Procedural generated building game.
  
  - In engine work with shaders, textures, materials, lighting, post effect, cinematic, cutscene, camera, composition, trailer, implementation of provided animation and general engine work for 1vs4 game and its trailer. And placing assets, props and level design of the environment.
  
  - In engine work with shaders, textures, materials, lighting, post effect, sizzle reel, dynamic changing board, implementation of provided animation and vfx, creation of fountain vfx and shaders for card collection game. And placing assets onto the board.
  
  - Helping level designer to design and improve their level for a third person game, as well as create the layout for some of the levels.
  
  - Designing 3 car tracks for a game with 12 tracks, adding buildings, props, details, lighting and changing some textures.

  For all projects include communication, feedback, iteration, troubleshooting with animators, coders, vfx and 3D artist as I am in charge of implementing everything provided into the engine and game.

• Lighting Artist at BlueBox Interactive

  Berlin, Germany

  January 2015 - December 2016

  I provided lighting design for Jerry and Dungeon Caretaker, both for PC and on Steam. I did everything from color palette, atmosphere and technical assistant in optimizing both light and textures.

• Founder at FatCow Games

  Kristiansand, Norway

  January 2009 - October 2013

  I did everything from marketing, production, pr, funding, business plan, pitching, game design, hiring, localization, creative lead, production, finance and running the business as a whole. I provided external services to offshore, web companies and such. And I completed Idyllic for iphone and ipad.

• QA at Applicus AS

  Kristiansand, Norway

  January 2011 - January 2013

  I assisted with game design and quality assurance of Marty Zapstack for iPhone.

• Assistant Producer and Game Designer at Agenius Interactive AS

  Kristiansand, Norway

  January 2009 - February 2010

  I was responsible for QA Management, Localization, Level Design and Game Design Improvements for 4traveler board game and Nintendo DSi title