Welcome
My name is Martin Elsaesser. I am a Lead Artist at Crytek currently working on Crysis2 in Frankfurt, Germany. Welcome to my website.
After I got me diploma in animation I worked in various art positions within the games industry being an Art Director, Lead Artist, 3D Artist and Animator.
This diverse artistsic background enables me to work with artists from various disciplines. My knowledge of the game production process, combined with the joy to organize and optimize the art pipeline, helps me to enable art groups to excel.
I am a fan of agile development methods used as a flexible toolset to empower teams to organize themselves in a direct, lean and efficient way.
One of my main interests besides managing art teams is the integration of external resources into the production pipeline. To integrate specialized freelancers, sourcing teams and outsourcing vendors is a big challenge and an area I continuously strive to learn more about.
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Facts
- Name: Martin Elsaesser
- Nationality: German
- Age: 36
- Residence: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Education: Animator
- Experience: 14 years of games industry experience
Games
- Crysis2 (PC/Xbox360/PS3)
- Terminator Salvation (PC/Xbox360/PS3)
- Dawn of Discovery (PC)
- The Dark Eye – Drakensang (PC)
- Singles 2 (PC)
- Singles (PC)
- Yager (PC/Xbox)
Specialties
- Art Direction
- Art Management
- Art Sourcing
- Character Design & Modeling
- Environment Modeling
- Texture Design
- Animation
Tools
- Maya
- 3ds max
- modo
- ZBrush
- Photoshop
- Excel, Project, Hansoft
- JIRA, DevTrack, mantis
- Perforce, SVN, CVS