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Adam Lee
Adam Lee
Creative Lead | Art Direction & Production | Experiences
Darwen, United Kingdom

Summary

Creative Lead and Associate Art Director with 15+ years’ experience across games, film, TV, and real-time production.
My background spans practical effects, virtual production, and real-time development, with a focus on building environments that support both visual storytelling and real-world constraints.
I’ve worked across multidisciplinary teams to take projects from early concept through to final delivery, coordinating between art, design, technical and production teams to keep work aligned and moving forward.
Earlier in my career, I worked in practical effects, building sets, props, and prosthetics for film and TV. That experience continues to inform how I approach environment design, with a strong awareness of scale, material, and how things function in physical space.

More recently, my work has focused on leading teams, defining visual direction, and supporting delivery across multiple projects. I’m particularly interested in work that brings together digital and physical environments, especially within experiential and location-based contexts.

Open to opportunities in creative production, experiential, and real-time development.

Skills

Concept DesignCharacter ModelingDigital SculptingEnvironment ModelingTexturingSculptingCreature DesignVRXR

Software proficiency

ZBrush
ZBrush
Maya
Maya
Substance 3D Painter
Substance 3D Painter
Photoshop
Photoshop
Marmoset Toolbag
Marmoset Toolbag
Redshift
Redshift
Substance 3D Designer
Substance 3D Designer
Mari
Mari
Quixel Suite
Quixel Suite
Shotgrid
Shotgrid
Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine
Jira
Jira
perforce
perforce
Gaea
Gaea
Blender
Blender

Experience

  • Art Lead | Associate Art Director at nDreams: Compass
    GB
    May 2023 - April 2026

  • Virtual Production Asset Lead at The Third Floor
    GB
    August 2022 - June 2023

  • Visualisation Artist at The Third Floor
    GB
    April 2022 - August 2022

  • Senior Environment Artist at Jellyfish Pictures
    Darwen
    September 2021 - April 2022

  • Lead Environment Shading Artist at Redstar3D
    Sheffield
    October 2020 - September 2021

  • Lead Asset artist at Jellyfish Pictures
    London
    November 2018 - August 2020

  • 3D Generalist at BlueBolt VFX
    London
    March 2018 - August 2018

  • Senior Modeller and Texture artist at Cinesite Ltd
    London
    October 2017 - December 2017

  • Senior Character/Environment Artist at Pixomondo
    Toronto
    October 2015 - September 2017

  • Environment Artist at Mr. X Inc.
    Toronto, Canada
    June 2013 - October 2015