OLEG FOMENKO

Work Experience

• Technical ArtistOct 2018 - Oct 2019

  Crazy Panda | Remote

  Project: Crazy Crazy Slots
  Preparing and integrating prefabs, animation, FX based on art mockups. Optimizing prefabs and art in terms of draw calls and performance. Creating and optimizing asset bundles.

• Lead Technical ArtistSep 2017 - Oct 2018

  GSN Games | Kiev, Ukraine

  Project: Wheel Of Fortune Slots
  My main responsibility is to create well optimized, smooth running, and performance effective app and of course to fill the gap between developers and artists.

• Technical ArtistMar 2017 - Sep 2017

  GSN Games | Kiev, Ukraine

  Project: Wheel Of Fortune Slots
  Create art assets and prefabs with Unity3d, ensuring they work within technical constraints.

• CTOJul 2014 - Feb 2017

  Jutiful | Hey-Clay | Kiev, Ukraine

  Working in a small startup, i was responsible for all technical side of developing and launching following projects. Programming, technology selection, team management and problem solving.
  Projects:
  AZZL (ios/tvos/android),
  REBUS/ РЕБУСЫ+/ БРЕДУСЫ,
  Talking ABC series (EN, RU, SP, DE, FR: ios/android/amazon)

• Unity3d DeveloperJun 2012 - Jul 2014

  REDIGION | Kiev, Ukraine

  Projects: Fun Racing, Gwars
  Developing games with Unity3d. Working with 3rd party plugins such as NGUI, Smooth Moves, Prime31(Facebook, GameCenter, InApp Purchase, Flurry, Chartboost etc.).

• co-Founder

  Buntar Games | Kiev, Ukraine 2010 - 2012

  Buntar Games is an indie game development studio. Developing games for iOS, providing outsourcing services for game art and programming.

  Directing the team. Responsible for almost all development and business processes, starting from ideas through art, animation and development to running products into the markets. 

• co-Founder

  Buntar Media | Kiev, Ukraine 2008 - 2012

  Buntar Media is a creative media agency, specializing in interactive content, 3D design and 3D visualization.

  Managing Art team, responsible for interactive solutions.

• Lead AnimatorAug 2006 - Feb 2008

  Vogster Entertainment | Kiev, Ukraine

  Project: "Crime Craft"(MMO Shooter based on Unreal Engine 3.0)

  Managing animation team. Animation pipeline setup for in game characters and cinematics. Working closely with Programmers and Game Designers teams. Working with Mocap (directing Mocap sessions, cleaning, editing mocap data). Working with Unreal Engine, creating Anim Tree.

• AnimatorDec 2005 - Aug 2006

  KranX Productions | Kiev, Ukraine

  Animating game characters (humanoid and robots, biped and quadruped).Creating custom rigs, skinning. MEL scripting to automate some of the working procces.

• AnimatorApr 2005 - Jul 2005

  ALS Group, Render.Ru Studio | Saint-Petersburg, Russia

  Project: "Mystery Million" (Cartoon Movie).

  Animating main character, secondary characters, props and environment objects. For three months of production we made nine short movie stories, duration of 30-45 seconds. Only two animators worked on this project, and about four series were fully animated by me.

• 3d modeler/ AnimatorMar 2003 - Apr 2005

  Digital Art Games | Kiev, Ukraine

  Project: "Still Squall" (realtime strategy).

  Animating game characters, create 3d models of military vehicles, texturing.

• 3d modelerAug 2002 - Feb 2003

  Abyss Lights Studio | Kiev, Ukraine

  Create 3d models for different game projects

Education

• Master Degree1999 - 2005

  National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"

  IT specialist in Computer Systems and Networks. Department of Automation and Control in Technical Systems.

• Graphic Design1992 - 1997

  School of the Arts

  I was too young but I soaked up art knowledge like a sponge. That was time when i got the understandings of visual style.