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Dane Petersen

Senior Character Artist

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Dane is a senior character artist with over 7 years experience working in the game industry. His very first introduction to game art was through mods, which led to a serious interest in creating 3d characters for games. A self-taught artist, he built up enough experience to land an internship at Arenanet working on Guild Wars 2, which kicked off the first leg of his career. From there, he spent time at Certain Affinity in Austin learning modern game pipelines while contributing to several AAA games, including Halo Infinite. Today, he is working at Obsidian Entertainment on the upcoming Outer Worlds 2. Dane enjoys creating both realistic and stylized characters, and will always feel most at home while creating in zBrush.

Testimonials

Helped me to better understand why certain practices are important, so I now know when it might be ok to break the rules too.

Erin

He helped me to know more about sculpting the face, creating the low res mesh and texturing.

Arash