Jobye-Kyle Karmaker is a Lead Environment Artist with over 12 years experience working in the games industry. He initially got his start working on multiplayer Source Engine mods. From there, he went professional and worked at Ubisoft Toronto, then Monolith Productions, where he worked on an array of franchises in different genres, from linear and multiplayer games to open world games: Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, Far Cry and Middle-Earth – Shadow of War. Jobye has now spent nearly 5 years at Respawn Entertainment, where he shipped 2019's Star Wars - JEDI: Fallen Order, worked on the critically-acclaimed Apex Legends and is now leading the Environment Art team of their Star Wars FPS Team.
June 2017 - September 2019: Star Wars - JEDI: Fallen Order
October 2019 - Present: Apex Legends
Middle-Earth: Shadow of War
Far Cry Primal
Far Cry 4
Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Rainbow Six Patriots (Cancelled)
Created models and textures for props, weapons and vehicles according to gathered real-world reference for various military clients
In-house - from May to August
Freelancer - from August to January