Jose Perez III

Conceived original stories, directed all motion capture, directed majority of the VO, supervised design team, worked on systems design / prototyping when possible

Director / Supervisor of Creative Development and Design

Generated and pitched original concept / story

Worked with a variety of writers and Lucasfilm’s internal story group to ensure our stories fit into the larger mosaic that is Star Wars

Directed voice over

Directed mocap for all cinematics and a variety of locomotion animations

Led a team of designers to create hours of immersive VR content with an eye toward storytelling and interesting VR mechanics

Completed the project with less than a year of development, during a pandemic, and working from home via video conference

Directed a thirty second short animated commercial for Oculus Quest. Directed all VO/Mocap, storyboarded / co-wrote the spot.

Creative supervision for a live Star Wars AR segment at the Macy’s Day Parade (See video below)

Director / Supervisor of Creative Development and Design.

• Generated and pitched original concept / story

• Worked with a variety of writers and Lucasfilm’s internal story group to ensure our stories fit into the larger mosaic that is Star Wars

• Directed voice over, worked with industry legends like Frank Oz and Anthony Daniels

• Directed mocap for all cinematics and a variety of locomotion animations

• Led a team of designers to create hours of immersive VR content with an eye toward storytelling and interesting VR mechanics

• Completed the project with less than a year of development, during a pandemic, and working from home via video conference

Senior Experience Designer - Film

VR previsualization.

Supervisor of Experience Design - VR Experience.

Lightsaber Dojo III Designer

Senior Experience Designer - Disneyland Attraction

Helped with early ideation and previsualization.

Lead Experience Designer - Lightsaber Dojo II

I was the lead on a small team that created a round based lightsaber combat simulator in Star Wars: Vader Immortal.

This was an especially tricky project considering we only had a few short months to create over two hours of gameplay using pre-existing assets.

Director / Lead Game Designer

Collaborated with the folks at Walt Disney Animation Studios to create a location based experience available for a limited time in Downtown Disney / Disney Springs.

Sr. Experience Designer

Helped create and pre-visualize sets using a proprietary real-time VR tool.

Sr. Experience Designer

Helped create and visualize the “Train Sequence” using a Real-time VR tool.

Sr. Experience Designer

Helped create and pre-visualize shots using a proprietary Real-time VR tool.

Senior Experience Designer: Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine (HTC Vive, PC)

Part of the core development team that created the first truely interactive Star Wars VR experience.

Worked directly with Industrial Light & Magic on an unorthadox motion capture shoot at Skywalker Ranch.

Helped design and tune the first official VR Lightsaber.

Senior Game Designer: World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor (PC, MMO)

Full implementation of quests including character spawning, Ai packages, spell creation, scripting and story integration.

Created hundreds of quests across multiple zones.

Worked with the creative leads to establish interesting narrative design

Senior Game Designer: World of Warcraft: Legion (PC, MMO)

Full implementation of quests including character spawning, Ai packages, spell creation, scripting and story integration.

Created high level zone map and quest flow charts for Stormheim.

Worked with the creative leads to establish interesting narrative design.

Senior Level Designer: Star Wars 1313 (PC, PS4, Xbox One)

Built, lit, and scripted prototype levels in a highly modified Unreal 3 engine.

Worked with the leads both at Lucasarts and Industrial Light & Magic to create some incredible 3rd person action adventure content.

Attended internal courses at ILM for Film Layout and Editing to further hone my skills.

Zone Lead / Sr. Content Designer: Wildstar (MMO, PC)

Managed a team of five designers and an environment artist.

Created high level zone maps and quest flow charts.

Worked with the lore department to establish interesting narrative design.

Full implementation of quests including character spawning, Ai packages, spell creation, scripting and story integration.

Lead Game Designer:  Quantum Conundrum (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)

Built and scripted puzzles in Unreal 3. 

Helped establish original story and art direction. 

Additional work on game systems and control layout.

Lead Game Designer:  Dark Void (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)

Invented the initial concept and led the creative vision over the full course of production.

Worked intimately with the publisher and development team to ship “AAA” quality content using Unreal 3 tech.

Pitched the initial vision, and all its iterations based on publisher feedback, eventually landing a deal with Capcom.

Game Designer: Shadowrun (Xbox 360)

Worked with usability, animation, and design on unreleased Shadowrun campaign.

Built and scripted prototype campaign and tutorial levels in the Halo engine.

Modeled graybox levels in Maya and converted them through Max to run in the Halo engine.

Game Designer:  Crimson Skies:  High Road to Revenge (Xbox)

Conceived and proved initial design for the open world.

Designed and scripted all boss fights and three multiplayer maps from paper to completion.

Utilized a proprietary game engine built in Maya to design single and multiplayer levels from start to finish.

Design Consultant: Mechassault 2: Lone Wolf

Storyboards: Blood Wake

Front End UI

Video Editing