Karyna Trychyk

Senior 3D Artist at Wargaming.net

Vilnius, Lithuania

Summary

Senior 3D Environment Artist with over 15 years of experience in creating high-end environments for games. Expert in the full production pipeline — from high-poly modeling to complex scene assembly and final lighting in Unreal Engine 5. I specialize in creating believable, optimized natural ecosystems and foliage, balancing artistic vision with technical performance.

Core Expertise
Full Environment Pipeline: High/Low poly modeling, efficient UV mapping, and baking.

Mastery of UE5: Advanced material setup (shaders, RVT, foliage actors), Lumen/Nanite integration, and world composition.

Foliage & Ecosystems: Creation of optimized, high-quality vegetation (SpeedTree/hand-sculpted) and procedural distribution systems.

Technical Art Mindset: Deep understanding of optimization (LODs, draw calls, shader complexity) and technical constraints for AAA/AA projects.

Texturing: PBR workflow, stylized or realistic.

Skills

Software proficiency

Quixel Suite

Substance 3D Painter

Substance 3D Designer

Unreal Engine

ZBrush

SpeedTree

3ds Max

Gaea

Blender

Photoshop

Productions

- Video Game
  IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey
- Year
  2009
- Role
  Environment Artist
- Company
  ELIGAME Studio
- Video Game
  Arcania: Gothic 4
- Year
  2010
- Role
  Environment Artist
- Company
  ELIGAME Studio
- Video Game
  World of Tanks
- Year
  2014
- Role
  Senior Environment Artist, R&D 3D Artist
- Company
  Wargaming.net

Experience

Senior R&D 3D Artist at Wargaming
Vilnius, LT
March 2015 - Present
Responsibilities:

-research and development of visual and functional prototypes in collaboration with technical artists;

-research and development of new pipelines of content production, which allow to improve quality and make workflow more efficient;

-creating sample content for new technologies as reference for visual and technical quality;

-producing specifications for new content creation tools, doing initial testing;

-writing documentation and making tutorials for production teams;

-supervising outsource teams for making sample content.
Senior Environment Artist at Game Stream (Wargaming)
Minsk, Belarus
May 2014 - March 2015
Responsibilities:

- hi\low poly modeling;

- creating PBR textures;

- making LODs and crashes;

- supervising outsource artists for texturing quality;

- RnD tasks.
Project Manager at ELIGAME Studio
Minsk, Belarus
March 2010 - April 2014
Responsibilities:

- monitor the international artist team & take part in the daily graphic production for projects;

- set & maintain the art quality standard produced in the studio for on time delivery;

- coordinate & plan artist resource properly to handle project in optimal way in collaboration

with different departments, i.e. animation, vfx, etc.;

- maintain effective communication with supervisors, team artists and other departments within

the company;

- establish and carry the project style from the conceptual phase to the fnished product.
3D Artist at ELIGAME Studio
Minsk, Belarus
August 2008 - March 2010
Responsibilities:

- hi\low poly modeling;

- creating hand-painted/photo-sourced textures;

- making LODs;

- baking light maps;

- assembling levels.

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