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Nate Stephens

Art Director

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Nate Stephens is an Art Director at Respawn Entertainment, with over 20 years of game development experience and 8 shipped titles. He is currently working on the Star Wars franchise, and shipped Jedi: Survivor early in 2023. Previously Nate was the Principal and Lead Artist on the God of War games at PlayStation Santa Monica Studio, where he oversaw the Environment Art and Lighting departments. Formerly Nate was an Instructor for the Gnomon School of Visual Effects, as well as a Masterclass teacher for the Gnomon Workshop creating video tutorials. With a background in environment art, hard surface modeling, material creation, and lighting, he has been able to help many artists improve their skills to push their portfolios to the next level.

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Testimonials

It was wonderful that when we han doubts about how to do something he opened our files and showed us how to make it right and showed the full process, really appreciate it.

Mireya

He tries his best to help everyone and answer all our questions. I had a really memorable class where I can feel my skills grow as the class progresses. I didn't know how to Zbrush before and now I'm getting better at it. I got lots of insight from Nate both technical and about the industry. 10/10

Maria

I was incredibly excited when the instructor changed to Nate since he is both an amazing environment artist and a great teacher. His feedback sessions always left me feeling inspired, motivated and excited about the new things I learned from the feedback video.

Armand

Nate's clear feedback and explanations in the QA exceeded expectations I had for the course. I took it to learn about how to build modular environments, but learnt so much more. Nate's passion for teaching shows and he takes the time to explain.

Lia