“Jason's work was always top notch. Jason helped us optimize our internal tools and pipeline and was always considered the "expert" at work. He mentored others in his position and worked directly with engineering on a regular basis.” December 11, 2010
Ted Morris, Senior Producer
Petroglyph Games
Ted Morris, Senior Producer
Petroglyph Games
"First of all Jason is a really great person to work with. Easy going and would always make you laugh in crunch time. Along with having a great personality, he has a great talent for scripting. He was always suggestion ideas for pipeline scripts he could create to make ever artists life easy. I always thought of him as being a dependable bridge between the Programming and Art departments at Petroglyph. Any company would be lucky to have Jason's talent and personality in there studio. I am really looking forward to working with Jason again."December 6, 2010
Jeremy West - FX Artist
Portfolio & Homepage
"Jason has been a great asset for the art team at Petroglph. He brought his skills in scripting to create a very diverse and robust tool set that is still in current use at the company. What I like most about Jason is his tenacity to never accept things as they are and constantly strive to find further ways of improving the art pipeline and tool set. Jason has also been amazing at creating tools to fix problems and workarounds with popular 3d animation/modeling software that I wish was standard with them."November 29, 2010
Sean Ng Qui Sang
Animator / Rigger
“Jason was an important part for the company in order to import our game content into the actual game world. He developed tools that aided artist to be more efficient. He also kept a good communication between Programing and Art departments to ensure that things worked properly in game. He manages to keep on top of things even when deadlines and other issues start to pile up. He works his hardest until the task is done, he even stays late if need be to ensure that everything is working properly. Jason understand a lot of both art and programing making him a key person to have on a team. I would love to work with Jason again and highly recommend him as a Tech Artist at any company.”November 2, 2010
Joel Rivera, Environment / Level Artist @ Petroglyph Games
Zombie-Monkey (Blog & Portfolio)
“I worked alongside Jason on our MMORPG and aside from his outstanding skills as a technical artist, Jason's propensity to solve problems have been extremely valuable to the team. Jason has always been open to hearing the needs of his team members and always willing to create tools/scripts to assist the needs of fellow artists.”November 4, 2010
Va Lee, 3D Artist @ Petroglyph Games
Online Portfolio
“I worked with Jason at Petroglyph for several years. He did a great job as a technical artist on our projects. He has a great understanding of 3ds max and photoshop and scripting.”
Greg Hjelstrom - Technical Director @ Petroglyph Games
Berzerker Games
Greg Hjelstrom - Technical Director @ Petroglyph Games
Berzerker Games
“Jason is a bright and tech savvy guy who will always be there when you need him. He does not disappoint in what he does. He will always come up with a solution to fix a problem on the tech side. I enjoy working with Jason not only he has great tech skills, but an excellent human being and coworker.”October 22, 2010
Mun Lee - 3D Artist
Mun Lee's Portfolio
"Jason is a talented technical artist, not only capable in area of mass-producing game ready 3D models (complete with textures and UV mapping), but was the heart of building our asset-to-game management tools. He is extremely adept at writing tool scripts, and knowledgeable on a variety of 3D platforms (i.e. 3DSMax, Maya, Mudbox, etc.). He is an important asset to any team, and is a keystone in streamlining the production of the entire art department."October 15, 2010
Hans Piwenitzky
3D Environmental Artist
"Jason Barnidge is one of the best tech artist that I have worked with. I like the fact that he will look into what ever is the problem you are having and fix it or tell you why its not working. Every time I went to ask him about a tool he would alway help out and never gave me the run around. He is the kind of guy that knows how to solve problems and at the same time will have fun doing it. Jason is a team player that makes a team strong. One other great part about working with him was that we use to have fun and joke around at lunch. I hope to work with him again soon."October 16, 2010
Milton Mariscal
Sr. 3D Artist / Environment Artist
"Jason was always there ready to help, he went beyond expectations in trying to provide solutions to whatever issue was put before him. His diverse knowledge and tenacious can-do attitude are topnotch.He was a real asset to me in my work at Petroglyph. I was the only artist working in Maya at a Max centric house. Jason made a real difference in helping me integrate and overcome program barriers.
Sincerely,
Daniel Miller"
October 16, 2010
Daniel Miller
CG Animator & Sculptor
"Jason is an expert in art tech. He bridged the gap between art and programming for our team and did all the dirty work that typically artists shy away from. He is easy to work, communicates well and remains focused while at work. A self starter, he would often take it upon himself to write scripts that would improve our art pipeline and increase efficiency. Jason makes a great addition to any team looking for a technical artist."October 17, 2010
Mike Amerson, Sr. Game Artist
MikeAmerson.com
"Jason created the tech foundation while he was a Petroglyph and it has been key in the current project's development. He was always very helpful by answering any of my questions and also helped me immensely while i transitioned from XSI to 3Dmax. He is an asset to any outfit."October 18, 2010
Jonathan Goldman, Sr. Artist @ Petroglyph Games
LinkedIn Profile
"Jason created Petroglyph's tech structure and tools he developed are still being used by the company to this day. He is easily approachable for answering any of my technical questions for 3DSmax. Jason makes a great addition for any company and would work with him again."October 18, 2010
Vencent Leyba, 3D Artist @ Petroglyph Games
Pentact-Art
“We are quite pleased with the positive impact you’ve made to define the ‘Technical Artist’ expectations, and your amazing contribution to your team that you had with the tool ‘Oz’.
One of your peers said it best: 'Keep doing what he’s doing. Glad to have him around.'”
Management Team,
Petroglyph Games
One of your peers said it best: 'Keep doing what he’s doing. Glad to have him around.'”
Management Team,
Petroglyph Games
"Jason really understands Max and our current tools and is a good problem solver. I use his tools everyday and they work great."
Artist,
Petroglyph Games
Artist,
Petroglyph Games
(Jason's biggest contributions...)
"OZ. OZ is so incredibly major. In addition to the shortcuts it provides me that I use every day, it was so impressive to me when I first showed up here that I felt inspired to learn Maxscript myself."
Phil Horowitz, Technical Artist,
Petroglyph Games
"OZ. OZ is so incredibly major. In addition to the shortcuts it provides me that I use every day, it was so impressive to me when I first showed up here that I felt inspired to learn Maxscript myself."
Phil Horowitz, Technical Artist,
Petroglyph Games
(Jason's biggest contributions...)
"The oz tool. It’s very much functional in improving workflow and speeding up the time each artist take with their task. There are lots of little gems in the tool that make things much, much easier to do. Oz tool really shows the importance and the impact a tech artist can make on workflow. Jason is also very inquisitive and always looking for ways to improve the performance of the game by researching what can and can’t be done by the artist."
Artist,
Petroglyph Games
"The oz tool. It’s very much functional in improving workflow and speeding up the time each artist take with their task. There are lots of little gems in the tool that make things much, much easier to do. Oz tool really shows the importance and the impact a tech artist can make on workflow. Jason is also very inquisitive and always looking for ways to improve the performance of the game by researching what can and can’t be done by the artist."
Artist,
Petroglyph Games
(Jason's biggest contributions)
"His abilities in building the great tool sets for MAX, without which, our jobs would have been much more difficult."
Artist,
Petroglyph Games
"His abilities in building the great tool sets for MAX, without which, our jobs would have been much more difficult."
Artist,
Petroglyph Games
"In addition to his technical skills, Jason is also very creative and has a good eye for quality. When assigned to make model and texture changes to an existing asset to accommodate technical needs, those changes have looked very good and often improve upon the appearance of the original asset."
Josh Leichliter, Sr. Artist
Petroglyph Games
Josh Leichliter, Sr. Artist
Petroglyph Games
"He’s great at figuring out where we might need a toolset for the artists and then executing on the tool."
Colleague,
Petroglyph Games
Colleague,
Petroglyph Games
"He is always willing to help...He doesn’t push any his artistic views on any artist he listens and takes suggestion instead. He always looks for a way to make sure things work both functionally and economically when regarding draw calls and editor issues."
Joel Rivera
Environment / Level Artist
Joel Rivera
Environment / Level Artist
"Jason’s work on the new toolbox for the artists automated and simplified Max and our exporting tools, leaving a wake of appreciative, happy, and productive artists. Thanks to Jason, Oz has dramatically improved our production processes and sped up our productivity for all areas of art development."
Management Team,
Petroglyph Games
Management Team,
Petroglyph Games
"Jason has independently and successfully created and maintained a Max toolbox that Jason cleverly named ‘Oz.’ Oz has been instrumental in vastly improving production processes for level artists, prop artists, animators, and FX artists. It didn’t occur to anyone to request the tool box functions because we already had learned cumbersome work-arounds that ‘did the trick.’"
Management Team,
Petroglyph Games
Management Team,
Petroglyph Games
"Jason has made tools to improve their particular work flow needs. Those artists have immensely appreciated Jason’s help. It is a really nice thing for a manager to hear from the artists that there are things that Jason does behind the scenes that are making a big impact on our productivity and artist morale. I greatly appreciate Jason for that."
Lynne Gura, Art Director @ Petroglyph Games
GuraArt.com
Lynne Gura, Art Director @ Petroglyph Games
GuraArt.com
"Personally I have found Jason to be extremely modest about his contributions, often taking a back seat to the spotlight even on his own efforts. This is a rare and admirable trait that Jason possesses, although I do want him to promote himself a bit more. I’d like him to fly a little bit more over the radar."
Management Team,
Petroglyph Games
Management Team,
Petroglyph Games
"Jason has also worked closely with Phil Horowitz to get him up to speed on working in the game industry. He has also mentored Phil in the creation of tools for the artists and encourages Phil to add to Oz when it makes good sense to. Jason is always willing to help all the artists whenever they need it. He has an excellent, ‘can do it’ or ‘will find a way to do it’ attitude that is crucial for any successful Technical Artist."
Management Team,
Petroglyph Games
Management Team,
Petroglyph Games
"Jason stays actively aware of all the game processes and is constantly involved in figuring out ways to continually assist us in all our pipelines."
Management Team,
Petroglyph Games
Management Team,
Petroglyph Games
"Jason contributed greatly to our tools for animation and established our animation rigging conventions. Jason created rigging conventions that streamlined the production processes of animation for both the artists and the programming."
Management Team,
Petroglyph Games
"Jason spearheaded the initial vision of sharing animation rigs on Mytheon. This idea resulted in the creation of 400 characters from 16 original rigged characters. Had this idea not come to fruition we would not have the variety of characters we had in the game or nearly the amount of variety of characters in the game."
Management Team,
Petroglyph Games
"Jason’s exceptional technical expertise coupled with his eagerness to improve our production processes has made him and invaluable member to our department. Jason has excellent initiative and is committed to doing his job well. Some of Jason’s specific contributions are explained below..."
Management Team,
Petroglyph Games
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