Kent Matheson

Chaos Manufacturing

Art Director

• Leading art development and look direction for an in-development game project.
• Managing remote artists, planning scope and defining tasks with the Game Director.
• Designing key art and directing look development.

Ubisoft

Senior Concept Artist / Lead Concept Artist / Cosmetics Art Director

Shipped AAA title: XDefiant (live-service FPS) — progressed from Senior Concept Artist to Lead and Cosmetics AD over three years.

Cosmetics Art Director · 2024

• Planned the full cosmetics lineup and styling direction for upcoming seasonal content.
• Refined cosmetics review processes, improving throughput and alignment across Art Directors and Producers.
• Collaborated with Art Directors and Production to scope and coordinate team efforts.

Lead Concept Artist · 2022 – 2024

• Shipped AAA title XDefiant — led concept and cosmetics art creation from production through launch.
• Managed outsourcing studios, conducting reviews and ensuring quality and consistency with project art direction.
• Developed and refined review pipelines, improving workflow efficiency and feedback clarity across distributed teams.
• Designed environments, characters, and assets — defining key visual styles across factions, maps, and cosmetics.
• Built resource libraries and documentation to enhance team productivity and maintain long-term visual cohesion.
• Mentored junior and mid-level artists, elevating visual quality and supporting their professional growth.
• Partnered with design teams on environment development, readability, and gameplay-focused visual storytelling.

Senior Concept Artist · 2021 – 2022

• Created designs for environments, characters, and props; worked with junior artists to define and elevate visual quality.

Impulse Gear

Concept Art Lead

Shipped title: Larcenauts (stylized VR game, Unreal Engine).

• Oversaw character, asset, and environment design from concept through ship on a stylized VR action title.
• Designed immersive game environments in Unreal Engine, ensuring visual consistency and gameplay readability.
• Led UI style design and implemented graphical elements across the full player experience.
• Contributed to additional studio projects and pitch development, supporting early-stage IP worldbuilding.

Hangar 13 / 2K Games

Associate Art Director

Unannounced AAA title.

• Led Look Development artists during early development on an unannounced AAA project.
• Created key art and visual direction, establishing early production benchmarks and style targets.
• Developed material pipelines in collaboration with technical teams.
• Collaborated with engineering on environment cloud and weather systems — bridging art and technical implementation.

Tippett Studio

Head of Environments

• Built and led the 3D environment team and production pipeline from the ground up for film, television, and ride projects.
• Collaborated with artists across disciplines to ensure high-quality delivery across multiple simultaneous projects.
• Worked with technical artists to design and implement a 3D asset browsing and delivery system.
• Art Directed initial pitches and visual development for environment projects.
• VES Award nominee — Dream of Anhui (immersive ride project).

Image Engine Design

Environments Design Supervisor

• Led environment visual development and art direction in early production of the feature film Elysium.
• Developed designs and matte paintings grounded in architectural, industrial, and real-world reference.
• VES Award nominee — Excellence in Environment Design (Elysium).

Industrial Light & Magic

Matte Painter / 3D Generalist

• Created 3D matte paintings and cinematic environments for major productions: Avatar, Star Wars Episode II, Pirates of the Caribbean.