Istvan Szalai
Senior 3d Environment Artist

szala@istvanszalai.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/istvan-szalai-4629628/ | https://www.artstation.com/istvanszalai 

Technical Skills
-	3d environment modeling, UV mapping
-	Texturing for standard and PBR rendering
-	Modeling for simulations
-	Exterior and interior light setup
-	Complete level planning and creation
-	Physics and material setup in Unity and Unreal Engines
-	LOD creation and setup
-	Simple animations
-	Simple Blueprints
-	Simple PCGs
-	Autodesk Maya
-	Adobe Substance Painter
-	Adobe Photoshop
-	Autodesk Mudbox
-	Autodesk Softimage XSI
-	Speedtree
-	Roadrunner
-	Unity
-	Unreal Engine
-	Sourcetree
-	Anchorpoint
-	Linear
-	Github App
-	Jira
-	Confluence

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Experience

-	3D emvironment artist | 2003-2007
o	modeling texturing buildings, vehicles, props on various projects
-	Terrain team coordinator – Eidos Studios Hungary | 2007-2009
o	modeling, texturing famous places (Pearl Harbor, Sidney etc) and team support.
-	Senior 3D environment artist | 2009-2018
o	modeling texturing buildings, vehicles, props, vegetations. Light, physics setup, level creation on various projects
-	Lead Architextural 3D Artist – Cardmap |  2018-2020
o	3d modeling, texturing famous buildings for tourism application, simple animations for building renovation demo
-	Senior 3D environment artist | 2020-2024
o	modeling texturing buildings, vehicles, props, vegetations. Light, physics setup, level creation on various projects
-	3D environment art supervisor – AEY Studios | 2024
o	shader creation, props team support, optimization workflow, asset checking, light setup, modeling, texturing
-	Senior 3D environment artist | 2024-2025
o	modeling texturing buildings, vehicles, props, vegetations. Light, physics setup, level creation on various projects
-	Senior 3D environment artist | 2025-2026 NotionTheory
o	modeling, texturing buildings, props
o	Created modular street sets with Blueprints and PCGs for Unreal Engine
o	Modeled interior levels and props
o	Created unique materials and textures

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Projects
-	3D virtual city creation – Notion Theory
-	3D environment art for traffic simulator – Newton Simulator
-	3D environment art supervisor on a FPS project. - AEY Studios
-	Complete VR cockpit for remote controlled prototype military vehicle  - TAG Dynamics
-	Buildings, props for a complete city – Driving simulation – SimAction
-	Buildings, props – WolfQuest 3: Anniversary Edition – Eduweb
-	Complete virtual bike track and environment from a real area – CycleGo
-	Optimized terrain with all details for RC Airplane simulator game– JetAxis (Maleo Media)
-	Virtual simulation environments for self driving car testing – FORETELLIX INC
-	Planning, modeling, texturing a complete Nursing Home   – SINE WAVE ENTERTAINMENT
-	Modeling, texturing, CAD data converting   interactive airplane and helicopter parts application for the the Parisian Air Show 2019  – Kaki Media Design
-	Modeling, texturing buildings for a new real estate application   – Beyond Visual Ltd
-	Modeling, texturing famous European buildings for travel app   – CardMap
-	Vehicle and detailed dashboard modeling, texturing    – Angel Garcia Voces (Edy's Vehicle Physics)
-	Modeling, texturing, car physics and setup for simulation for self driving simulation   – MetaMoto Inc.
-	Modeling, texturing and level building for a VR game  – Overon LTD.
-	Modeling, improving, optimizing bike models and parts for MXGP 4 – Artery Studio
-	Terrain and environment modelling – texturing for Road Grand Tours – Devpack
-	AR – VR applications and 360 videos  – ARWorks
-	Vehicles for simulation – SimAction
-	Low  and mid poly vehicles, buildings with PBR based textures, cockpit modelling- texturing – Flying Tigers: Shadows Over China -  Ace Maddox
-	All buildings for the DAFZA – Dubai showroom application – ARWorks
-	Realistic reefs for a 3d virtual dive application – Reef Interactive
-	Walking Dead: No Man's Land – Next games
-	Models, textures and simple animations for AR apps/games – AR Works
-	Characters, weapons and vehicles – RealDB Store
-	Sunnyville Salon, ICEE Racing and more 20 games – Sunstorm Games
-	Enemy Front – City Interactive
-	Battlestations Pacific – Eidos Studios Hungary
-	Battlestations Midway – Mithis/Eidos Studios Hungary
-	Killzone 2  - Liquid Development LLC
-	Condemned 2- Liquid Development LLC
-	Panzers Phase II. and Rush for Berlin – Stormregion
-	War on terror – Digital Reality
-	F.E.A.R.: Extraction Point – Liquid Development LLC
-	Crash Dummy – Twelve Interactive
-	Mythos – Liquid Development LLC
-	Black Noise techdemo – Most Wanted Entertainment