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Edwin Vargas Cortés
Edwin Vargas Cortés
Senior Lighting Artist @ EA Sports
Orlando, United States

I’m a videogame artist and digital designer focused on technical and environment art for PC, consoles and VR titles. With 15 years of experience, I’ve been creating videogames, digital products and immersive experiences both for consumers and businesses across LATAM, Europe and U.S.A.

I have been developing and designing environment art, vfx, shaders and materials for video games and apps on all types of platforms (Consoles, PC, VR devices, Android, iOS, and Web).

Skills

LightingShadersProp ModelingEnvironment ModelingDigital Sculpting3D ModelingLevel DesignCharacter ModelingHard Surface ModelingRiggingGame Design3D Animation

Software proficiency

Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine
Unity
Unity
3ds Max
3ds Max
ZBrush
ZBrush
Substance 3D Painter
Substance 3D Painter
Substance 3D Designer
Substance 3D Designer
SpeedTree
SpeedTree
Quixel Suite
Quixel Suite
Houdini
Houdini
Maya
Maya
World Machine
World Machine
Marmoset Toolbag
Marmoset Toolbag
VectorayGen
VectorayGen
Quixel Mixer
Quixel Mixer
Illustrator
Illustrator
Photoshop
Photoshop
After Effects
After Effects
Premiere
Premiere

Experience

  • January 2023 - Present
    Senior Lighting Artist at Electronic Arts
    Madrid, ES

    - In charge of doing baked and dynamic lighting for Gameplay, Environments, Venues, and Cinematics.

    - Work with other teams such as technical art and programming on troubleshooting and optimization of Lighting for

    Gameplay, Environments, Venues, and Cinematics.

    Helped update lighting documentation for lighting on various studio projects.

    Look Development, Prototyping and Polishing special lighting scenarios.

    Mentor other artists on lighting workflows, and best practices.

  • January 2019 - December 2022
    Senior Technical and Lighting Artist at Teravision Games
    Bogota, Colombia

    - Shaders and real-time VFX creation for NextGen and Virtual Reality games.

    - 3D Environment Design for Console, PC, and VR games.

    - Lighting on game maps and 3D environments for Console, PC, and VR Games using Dynamic and Static lighting.

    - 3D Prop Modeling for next-gen and VR Games.

    - Blueprinting and behaviors for gameplay and environment art.

  • April 2019 - December 2020
    Lead Consultant Technical Artist at Undying Games LLC
    United States of America

    - 3D Environment and level design. - Shaders and real-time VFX creation.

    - Character Rendering pipeline.

    - Environmental Lighting and setup for gameplay levels and cinematics using Dynamic and Static Lighting.

    - Material creation for cinematics and gameplay.

    - Environmental VFX and blueprinting for in-game weather systems.

  • January 2018 - Present
    Lead Artist - Founder at Include VR
    Panama, Panama

    - Lead in product creation.

    - Create environments for VR training simulations.

    - Create Shaders and textures for VR training simulations.

  • August 2012 - December 2017
    Cofounder, Art Director at 12 Hit Combo
    Bogota, Colombia

    Published Space Overlords a PC and PlayStation videogame

    on retail and digital.

    Won National awards (Colombia) and nominated for

    international awards for games produced by the company.

    Managed and worked collaboratively with remote teams and

    freelancers.

    Website design and front end dev for websites for both

    clients and own Projects.

    Worked with clients and publishers on Europe, and the

    Americas.

    Art and creative direction for the company's own IP Games.

    Shader and FX creation on Unreal Engine and Unity 3D.

    Modeling, texturing, animation and riging characters and

    environment assets for Videogames.

Productions

    • Video Game
      Captain ToonHead vs The Punks From Outer Space
    • Year
      2021
    • Role
      Senior Technical and Lighting Artist
    • Company
      Teravision Games
    • Video Game
      Space Overlords
    • Year
      2016
    • Role
      Art director, 3d modeling, lighting, rig and animation
    • Company
      12 Hit Combo!