Christian M. Enger

3d artist & generalist

Oslo, Norway

Summary

Well experienced 3d generalist with a background in games production, animation film, commercial work and visualisation. My work has encompassed most aspects of graphics production, though character animation has mainly been done by others (dedicated animators). Periodically I have had a lot of focus on shading/texturing, material pipeline, rendering and compositing (late pipeline stuff), but usually I have had my fingers in most aspects of a production.

Skills

Software proficiency

3ds Max

Maya

Houdini

Substance 3D Painter

Substance 3D Designer

Quixel Suite

V-Ray

Arnold

3Delight

ZBrush

Unreal Engine

Photoshop

Nuke

Blackmagic Design Fusion

After Effects

Knald

Combustion

Premiere

AutoCAD

Revit

Productions

- Movie
  Elleville Elfrid / Ella Bella Bingo
- Year
  2020
- Role
  Asset Creation, Look Dev
- Company
  Gimpville AS
- Movie
  Månelyst på Flåklypa (Working Title)
- Year
  2018
- Role
  vfx, Lookdev, 3d generalist.
- Company
  Qvisten Animasjon AS
- Movie
  Kurt blir grusom / Kurt turns evil
- Year
  2006
- Role
  Character modeller, character previz, UV, texture bakes.
- Company
  Qvisten Animation
- Movie
  Free Jimmy
- Year
  2006
- Role
  Technical animation Quality assurance, Prod. assistant.
- Company
  Animagicnet / Storm studios
- Video Game
  Anarchy Online
- Year
  2001
- Role
  production of full motion video clips (all prod. aspects)
- Company
  Funcom AS
- Video Game
  The Longest Journey
- Year
  1999
- Role
  Modeller (char. env.), anim, mocap cleanup, texturing, uv, skinning, rigging, render
- Company
  Funcom AS
- Video Game
  No Escape
- Year
  2000
- Role
  Character: design, model, texture, skinning, rigging, animation.
- Company
  Funcom AS

Experience

3d Generalist / Tech artist at Rude Robot Studios / Nine Lives Interactive
Oslo / Internationally remote work, NO
April 2022 - January 2024
Started off as a generalist, advising the art team on production in Unreal Engine (5x), produced a pr video for an unboxing event (related to web3 asset drop for backers), featuring lots of pyro and smoke sims from Houdini, rendered with Arnold in Maya.

Later my role was converted to tech artist, where I set up the asset constraints for production of models, materials and textures, wrote lengthy documentation regarding "best practices" for the art team, tried to ease and guide the art team into using Unreal, helped the modeller with re-topology and UV unwraping produced on the characters, created an assortment of material functions for collaborative use, handled level lighting, dabbled in some impact FX for characters on shields, handled general optimization and janitorial tasks in the levels and asset database. I also did some light blueprint work when needed to assist with general stuff.I also started on (an ultimately abandoned) journey to create procedural level assets in Houdini for the art team, using Houdini Engine.
3D generalist at Gimpville AS
Oslo, Norway
August 2018 - June 2019
Generalist work with asset creation, look development and set dressing.
CG Artist at The Future Group
Oslo, Norway
January 2018 - July 2018
Generalist. Focus on lookdev. Realtime UE4.
3D Generalist at Qvisten Animation AS
Oslo, Norway
March 2017 - June 2017
Commercial, promotional and feature film work. Individually and in teams.

Mostly modeling, lookdev, simple animations, and lighting\rendering.

Maya, Substance Designer and Arnold.
3d artist at Inviso AS / Vy Communications
Oslo, Norway
August 2014 - January 2016
Architectural visualisation work. Team of 3, though mostly solo projects.
3d Artist at Asplan Viak AS
Oslo, Norway
November 2007 - August 2014
Visualisation work for internal departments and to a certain extent external clients. Mostly Architectural, Landscaping, and City planning.
3d Artist at Qvisten Animation
Oslo, Norway
January 2005 - November 2007
Generalist work on most aspects of production on commercials and character artist on a movie. Modelling, uv, texturing, skinning, rigging (occasional), animation (occasional), shaders, lighting, render and compositing.
Techical animation quality assurance / Prod. assistant at Animagicnet / Storm Studios
Oslo, Norway
January 2003 - January 2004
Responsible for maintaining the live edit of the Film " Free Jimmy", and coordinating the shot status between the director/producer and the animators, while making sure each daily shot update (daily playblast) was presentable and error free.
3d Artist at Funcom AS
Oslo, Norway
August 1996 - July 2003
Generalist work. Modelling, uv, texturing, skinning, animation of game assets for "The Longest Journey" and "No Escape".

Worked on animation videos for the longest Journey, and Anarchy online (weekly story updates). Modelling, uv, texturing, skinning, rigging, animation, mocap cleanup, shading, lighting, rendering and post prod.

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