Brian Gans
Senior Tech Artist at Nightdive Studios
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Gans is a Senior Tech Artist based in San Diego with over eight years of experience crafting real-time visuals, tools, and pipelines across AAA and indie studios. He blends deep hands-on skills in 3DS Max, Maya, Substance Painter, Photoshop, Python, Unreal Engine 5 and Unity with practical strengths in modeling, texturing, rigging, skinning and performance optimization. His career spans roles at Sony, Intrepid Studios and now Nightdive Studios, where he’s moved from pure art into technical leadership and tool-making to accelerate teams. Colleagues rely on him to translate artistic needs into robust, scriptable workflows that scale across projects, and he’s known for quickly learning new tech and squeezing performance out of complex assets. A former art director who once doubled as “The Kid” developer-artist, he brings rare interdisciplinary fluency between art, engineering and production.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science with Honors, Game Art & Design, Bachelor of Science with Honors, Game Art & Design at Art Institute of CA, SD
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Github Skills (16)
unreal7
blueprint7
kotlin6
java6
jellyfin5
android5
unreal-engine-45
android-tv4
monster4
trainer3
rpg2
gameplay2
sandbox2
arcade2
quake2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
briangans/glomp
Sep 2019 - May 2020
Unity monster sandbox game
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
gamearcaderpgsandboxsandbox-game
briangans/trainingSandbox
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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