The Art of Jimmiek | 3d character artist and generalist. Sculptor and Painter.

Jimmiek Rankin

Character artist available for full time or freelance.

Austin, United States

About

Jimmie Rankin has more than 8 years of experience in the video game and animation worlds. Jimmie’s Dhalsim model was featured on the Street Fighter Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/streetfighter/ and generated more than 14,000 likes and vigorous community engagement. The model was also featured on the popular Shoryuken Webzine. Skilled in ZBrush, Maya, 3ds Max, Quixel, and Substance Designer, but always excited to learn new tools and pipelines.
Jimmie is currently a character modeler for Gen:Lock and RWBY, two popular Rooster Teeth animations.

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Skills

Software proficiency

3ds Max

Maya

Substance 3D Painter

Marmoset Toolbag

Unreal Engine

ZBrush

Unity

Marvelous Designer

Quixel Suite

R3DS ZWRAP

Yukes Engine

Productions

- Video Game
  WWE2k22
- Year
  2022
- Role
  Character Tech Artist
- Company
  2k/Visual Concepts
- TV Production
  Gen:lock
- Year
  2019
- Role
  Character Modeler
- Company
  Rooster Teeth
- TV Production
  RWBY
- Year
  2018
- Role
  Character and Generalist
- Company
  Rooster Teeth

Experience

Character Tech Artist at 2k/Visual Concepts
Los Angeles, United States of America
May 2021 - Present
Technical artist for the character creation team.
Character Artist at Rooster Teeth
AUSTIN, United States of America
October 2018 - January 2020
Characters and props for the animation RWBY. Characters and props for the animation Gen:Lock. Also integration of outsourced assets into the pipeline.
Character Artist at Chicken Waffle
AUSTIN, United States of America
February 2017 - January 2018
Characters and Props for a small AR/VR startup based in Austin Texas. Current releases are on Steam and the app stores for mobile.