Hi, I’m Cam!

About Me

I’ve been creating content for as long as I can remember. Games, characters, 3D models, videos, animations, websites, podcasts – anything!

After growing up in Perth and studying Multimedia Design at Curtin I moved to Melbourne and graduated from Swinburne with a BA in Games and Interactivity. Meanwhile doing 6 years in retail, between JB Hifi, EB Games and Gametraders learning sales, communication and management. Now I’m growing my career as the Marketing Manager at Hanabee Entertainment and the Co-Director of RTX Sydney.

I’ve always wanted to be anything but normal. I always want to do something new and exciting every day. I won’t stop until I’ve taken over the world. Why settle?

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This is what I do.

Marketing

Hanabee Anime 2014 – 2016

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<p>Since beginning at Hanabee I’ve been managing the marketing department. There’s at least three new releases by Hanabee every month that need to be pushed out to a very niche market in Australia and New Zealand.</p>
<p>Hanabee also handles both the Rooster Teeth and Rocket Jump license for distribtion, production, and events, I’ve been handling the management for their releases as well. Hanabee’s social media has over 40,000 fans on Facebook alone with the extended social media reach being much larger. <span class="highlight">Since beginning I’ve doubled the total reach for Hanabee and greatly increased the rate of engagement.</span>
<p>I oversee and attend most of 20 conventions that Hanabee exhibits per year in different states. Usually involving community events, meetups and managing our international guests.</p>

RTX Sydney Co-Director 2016 – 2017

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<p>Co-directing event can be a little ambiguous. I oversaw the entire production, development and execution of the event at the Australian Technology Park in 2016. I created sales, the programming, design assets, live stream, and much much more.</p>
<p>I also managed and coordinated the RWBY Panel which involved multiple third parties including Faceware, Opaque Media and resulted in a live Q&A with animated characters during a panel at RTX.</p>
<p>Eric Cherry, the CEO of Hanabee was the other co-director for RTX.</p>
<p>Find out more about RTX at <a href="www.rtxsydney.com">www.rtxsydney.com</a></p>

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Nosty – Pokefusions 2016

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                                                        <h3>Nosty – Pokefusions 2016</h3>
                                                        <p>Professional 3D Artist, Joe Tolliday, created a YouTube channel creating speed sculpts of pokefusions. I helped push the channel online through various forums and channels as well as some social marketing. </p>
<p>In the first 4 months the channel achieved 50,000 views and over 600 subscribers. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYllB02iBuJKcxyXuzVTjng">See the channel here</a></p>

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CHUNKworks – Global President 2015

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                                                        <h3>CHUNKworks – Global President 2015</h3>
                                                        <p>In 2015 I joined CHUNKworks in creating a Politcal Party Game. The project has since been suspended after the rest of the company earned full time work in the games industry during development.</p>
<p>I helped with promotion, UI, 2D elements and social media marketing. The project got in to an alpha stage before being put on hold.</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/chunkworks">I managed the Twitter account predominantly here</a></p>
<p>The above video is one tech demo from the “War on Drugs” game type where your player had to absorb as many drugs as possible.</p>

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Hosting

CamfromHanabee on Twitch

Sunshine Game Jam Mentor 2016

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<p>Vikram Saran, the Games course Programmer and Lecturer at Sunshine University, invited me to come to the first Sunshine Game Jam as a Mentor.</p>
<p>Alongside Kamina Vincent and Emre Deniz we helped over 25 students create 5 game projects in just 48 hours.</p>
<p>Find out more at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/SunshineGameJams/">Sunshine Game Jam Facebook Page </a>or play their games at the <a href="https://itch.io/jam/sunshine-game-jam">Sunshine Jam Itch.IO Page</a>.</p>

RTX Australia RWBY Panel 2016

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<p>Working closely with my friends at Opaque Media we worked together to create the first instance of a live 3D interview panel with fictional characters. Barbara Dunkelman and Lindsay Jones from Rooster Teeth voice the characters of Yang and Ruby from the popular animated series RWBY. </p>
<p>Working closely with Faceware, Unreal Engine and Opaque we created the most popular panel at the event live streamed to over 5000 concurrent viewers via RTX Australia’s Twitch Channel.</p>

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Hanabee LIVE Panels 2013 – 2016

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<p>I’ve hosted over 50 panels across Australia for Hanabee Entertainment with crowds of over 500 people.</p>
<p>After hosting panels where we just announce different anime titles I eventually created Hanabee LIVE – an interactive improvisation panel where guests from overseas and fans could get up on stage. Using a visual mixing software called VMIX we allowed for overlays, score boards, interactive games and more. Similar to Spicks and Specks but relating to Hanabee’s brands of gaming and anime.</p>
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Hanabee Podcast 2016

Work in Beta – BetaCast 2014

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                                                        <h3>Work in Beta – BetaCast 2014</h3>
                                                        <p>For a year over 2014 I hosted and co-created Work in Beta, a podcast and media channel that allowed Melbourne Indie Game Developers a place to promote their games. We hosted many different game developers, ran interviews at conventions and more.</p>
<p>The podcast was featured on iTunes in 2015.</p>
<p>Above is one example of our interviews we ran at an IGDA Meetup in Melbourne.</p>

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Swinburne Tutor for User Experience Design 2014

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                                                        <h3>Swinburne Tutor for User Experience Design 2014</h3>
                                                        <p>After graduating from Swinburne University I was asked to come back and be a tutor for two back to back classes of User Experience Design. I graduated on the Deans List after excelling in both 3D Animation and 3D Character Modelling.</p>
<p>I taught User Experience Design, a class revolving around user based testing for user interfaces on games, websites and everything interactive.</p>
<p>It was an incredibly rewarding opportunity.</p>

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Animating the Rooster Teeth Way 2013

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                                                        <h3>Animating the Rooster Teeth Way 2013</h3>
                                                        <p>I was asked to host an animation panel at ACMI with international guests, Monty Oum and Jordan Cwierz from Rooster Teeth Productions. The panel detailed the different types of 3D and 2D animation skill sets to a crowd of 500+. It was a great experience to try and explain what the guests were talking about so people of different skill sets could be involved. I then edited the entire video for viewing on YouTube.</p>
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SPMP YouTube Channel 2013

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Videography

RTX Sydney Announcement Campaign 2015

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                                                        <h3>RTX Sydney Announcement Campaign 2015</h3>
                                                        <p>in 2016 I created the announcement plan around RTX Sydney including the announcement trailer, plan and roll out. Keeping constant coordination between both Rooster Teeth, Supanova and Hanabee was integral in reaching as many people as possible.</p>
<p>We successfully reached enough people to sell out of tickets after the initial announcement.</p>

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PAX Australia 2014 Trailer

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                                                        <h3>PAX Australia 2014 Trailer</h3>
                                                        <p>In 2013 Theodore Argyrakakis and I created a trailer for the Department of Investment Victoria. It was a competition to be held between different universities in Melbourne to see who could use some free passes to PAX to create the greatest trailer. We won the competition and doing so eventually lead me to working at Hanabee.</p>
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Hanabee VOD Advertisement 2014

What is Hanabee Trailer 2014

Monday Night Richochet Opening 2013

Koi Suru Fortune Cookie Dance 2013

CCN – Truth Behind Easter 2012

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3D Modelling and Animation

GGJ 2014: Casey’s Shadow

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<p>At Global Game Jam Melbourne 2014 I was part of a team that created a small game named Casey’s Shadow. The theme was <em>“You don’t see things as they are. You see things are you are.” </em></p>
<p>We won 2 runner up awards for Art and Marketing out of the other 60+ games made.</p>
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Clone Runner Android Game 2013

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<p>During my time at Taigha Studios I was the 3D artist and animator for a game named Clone Runner.</p>
<p>Clone Runner was created using the base code we had already developed for another game. We had a very tight schedule so the art style was created and developed in a very short time. Although it was technically incomplete, since Taigha Studios no longer remains the game was released in it’s unfinished state.</p>
<p>It was created for Android and released in July 2013.</p>
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Old Pirate 3D Character 2012

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                                                        <h3>Old Pirate 3D Character 2012</h3>
                                                        <p>Old Pirate and his spear clock up a total of only 9312 triangular polygons, optimizing him for any in-game engine. He has a baked shadow and baked ambient occlusion. Old Pirate has been implemented into a Unity scene with full animation systems, playable from any android based device.</p>
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<p><em>Original 2D Concept: Kenneth Anderson</em><br />
<em>Built in: Maya, Mudbox, Photoshop and Unity</em><br />
<em>Stats: 9312 triangles using a 4096 Diffuse, Specular and Normal map</em></p>

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Toof Boy 3D Character 2012

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                                                        <h3>Toof Boy 3D Character 2012</h3>
                                                        <p>Toof Boy was created for a game concept that was cancelled. The character was created in a few days as a proof of concept.</p>
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<p><em>Original Concept: Damian Asling</em><br />
<em>Built with: Maya, Photoshop and Unity.</em></p>

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Victorian Gold Rush Diorama 2011

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Playmates 3D Environment 2011

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                                                        <p>For six weeks in 2010, I led a small team to create an entire level in the Unreal Development Kit. We designed and built the first level for a survival horror game, consisting of multiple rooms, ambient lighting, and movable objects.</p>
<p>This video shows a walk-through of the building I created alongside my team members Cable Long and Mike Giblin. Each asset you see, including buckets, bottles and barrels were created specifically for this level, complete with unique textures. Different surface techniques are displayed in each room, which include a bedroom, bathroom and hidden wine cellar. The lighting and blood-smeared textures work together to give the player a creepy, tension filled experience.</p>
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Advanced Technologies Center Virtual Tour 2011

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                                                        <p>This level was built entirely from scratch in Unreal Development Kit as an exact replica of the Swinburne ATC building. My small team of three built each asset, texture and lighting to make the building as realistic as possible. The final product was pitched to the Swinburne Marketing Department as an interactive display, to be used by international and prospective students who want to have a look at the campus. The project was passed on to new students to finish the rest of the campus based on our framework.</p>
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The Scrab 3D Character 2010

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                                                        <h3>The Scrab 3D Character 2010</h3>
                                                        <p>The Scrab was one of the first character rigs I created. Made in Maya in just a few days with some Zbrush sculpting of it’s high poly mesh. The final character was used in Unity for a demonstration.</p>
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<p><em>Original Concept: Oddworld Inhabitants</em><br />
<em>Built in: Maya, Zbrush and Unity</em><br />
<em>Stats: 712 Triangles, 1024 Diffuse, Normal and Specular maps</em></p>

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