Jonathan Bale
Environment Artist
Jonathan Bale is an Environment Artist at Expression Games, specialising in the creation of high-quality 3D environments for games. A graduate of Teesside University's BA (Hons) Computer Games Art programme, he has built his career across environment art, world building, and asset creation for both independent and commercial game projects.
Jonathan joined Expression Games in 2023 as a Junior Environment Artist and has since progressed to Environment Artist, contributing to the development of immersive game worlds and interactive experiences. Prior to this, he worked as an Environment Artist at Tucan Digital Studio and gained industry experience at Codemasters as a Quality Assurance Technician.
His credited work includes contributions to titles such as Hell Let Loose, F1 2020, and DiRT Rally 2.0. With a strong foundation in environment art and real-time production workflows, Jonathan continues to develop detailed and engaging virtual spaces for players around the world.
Events featuring Jonathan Bale
Creating WW2 Maps for Hell Let Loose
1. The Early Stages of a Map (Blockout Replacement. Capture Zones. History Ref. During Before and After)
2. Power of Micro Storytelling (3 second rule. Why we choose the assets we do. More is less. We can't fit everything in. Good practices)
3. Don't Drown in Asset Creation (Don't make tones of Textures. Smart reuse. Examples and a Exercise)
4. Team up and Talk (Value of feedback and questions) There maybe some changes along the way to this presentation.