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Kevin Burns
Kevin Burns
Environment Artist
San Diego, United States

Summary

Environment Artist for computer and console games. I use mainly Maya, Substance, Photoshop, and other software tools to create game environments, terrain, objects, and props.

Skills

Environment Design3D ModelingEnvironment ModelingTexturingGame DevelopmentPhotoshopMayaUnreal EngineLow PolyLOD

Software proficiency

Maya
Maya
Photoshop
Photoshop
Substance 3D Painter
Substance 3D Painter
Substance 3D Designer
Substance 3D Designer
Unity
Unity
Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine

Productions

    • Video Game
      Stars Reach
    • Year
      2025
    • Role
      Senior Environment Artist
    • Company
      Playable Worlds
    • Video Game
      EverQuest: The Darkened Sea
    • Year
      2014
    • Role
      Environment Artist
    • Company
      Sony Online Entertainment
    • Video Game
      EverQuest: Call of the Forsaken
    • Year
      2013
    • Role
      Environment Artist
    • Company
      Sony Online Entertainment
    • Video Game
      Planetside 2 (PC, PS4)
    • Year
      2012
    • Role
      Environment Artist
    • Company
      Sony Online Entertainment
    • Video Game
      DC Universe Online (PC, PS4)
    • Year
      2011
    • Role
      Environment Artist
    • Company
      Sony Online Entertainment
    • Video Game
      EverQuest: Underfoot
    • Year
      2009
    • Role
      Environment Artist
    • Company
      Sony Online Entertainment
    • Video Game
      EverQuest: Seeds of Destruction
    • Year
      2008
    • Role
      Environment Artist
    • Company
      Sony Online Entertainment
    • Video Game
      EverQuest: Secrets of Faydwer
    • Year
      2007
    • Role
      Environment Artist
    • Company
      Sony Online Entertainment
    • Video Game
      Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom
    • Year
      2006
    • Role
      Environment Artist
    • Company
      Sony Online Entertainment
    • Video Game
      Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade (PSP)
    • Year
      2006
    • Role
      Environment Artist
    • Company
      Sony Online Entertainment
    • Video Game
      Untold Legends: The Warriors Code (PSP)
    • Year
      2005
    • Role
      Environment Artist
    • Company
      Sony Online Entertainment
    • Video Game
      EverQuest Online Adventures: Frontiers (PS2)
    • Year
      2003
    • Role
      Environment Artist
    • Company
      Sony Online Entertainment
    • Video Game
      EverQuest Online Adventures (PS2)
    • Year
      2003
    • Role
      Environment Artist
    • Company
      Sony Online Entertainment
    • Video Game
      EverQuest: Scars of Velious
    • Year
      2000
    • Role
      Environment Artist
    • Company
      Sony Online Entertainment
    • Video Game
      EverQuest: Ruins of Kunark
    • Year
      2000
    • Role
      Environment Artist
    • Company
      Sony Online Entertainment
    • Video Game
      EverQuest MMO (PC)
    • Year
      1999
    • Role
      Environment Artist
    • Company
      Sony Online Entertainment

Experience

  • Senior Environment Artist at Playable Worlds
    San Diego, CA, US
    June 2021 - June 2024

    Senior Environment Artist

    - 3D model and texture creation for environment props

    - proxy and prototyping to serve engineers and designers

    - helping develop new art pipeline and custom tools

    - lead and various organizational tasks

  • Artist at Table War Designs
    San Diego
    September 2014 - January 2018

    Photoshop Artist (contract) creating landscape gaming mats for miniature war games.

  • Environment Artist at Sony Online Entertainment
    San Diego, United States of America
    August 1999 - February 2015

    Environment Artist on many video game projects for computer and consoles, including EverQuest (Original, Expansions, and Live Team) (PC), Planetside 2 (PC, PS4), DC Universe Online (PC, PS4), Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom (PS3), Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade (PSP), Untold Legends: The Warriors Code (PSP), and EverQuest Online Adventures (PS2).