Art, art and more art. I've worked in TV, film, and games :)
Work History
Lead Artist
Storm8
May 2012 - Present
Responsible for managing, concepting, and finalizing various designs for upcoming mobile games, mentoring to other artists on my team, and answering to the art director.
Shipped Titles:
Lead on Restaurant Story 2
Lead on Dragon Story
Lead on Castle Story
Lead on Farm Story 2
Dragon Story: Valentines Edition
Bubble Mania Seasons
Slots: Holiday Edition
Restaurant Story: Halloween Edition
Bakery Story: Halloween Edition
City Story Metro: Halloween Edition
Home Design: Halloween Edition
character designer
Renegade Animation
December 2015 - June 2016
BG Painter
Renegade Animation
December 2015 - June 2016
Senior Flash Artist
CrowdStar
June 2011 - May 2012
Responsible for creation of art assets and content scheduling for Happy Pets and Happy Aquarium. Assists the lead artist of the team in generating content ideas, and assuring the schedule is on track. Works closely with the devs and programmers to insure art assets work correctly as needed.
Storyboard Artist
Freelance Storyboarding
April 2011 - May 2012
Boarding on a few short films
Lead Artist - Island Paradise/Other Project
Meteor Games LLC
January 2011 - May 2011
Moved onto a new project as Lead Artist. Responsible for developing the style guides, key looks, and managing all artists on my team. When necessary, responsible for meeting with key art directors to ensure that the quality of art and level of detail is up to their standards. Worked closely with all other departments: Design, PHP, and Flash to ensure they have all art assets necessary to complete their tasks efficiently.
Senior Artist/Animator: Project Lead on Island Paradise
Meteor Games LLC
November 2009 - January 2011
Responsible for the creation of in game items (animated and not) for various games including Island Paradise and Little Rock Pool, seeing creation from beginning roughs to final flash art, overseeing artists on the production, giving feedback, and training new artists.
Character Designer
Nickelodeon Animation Studio
April 2010 - May 2010
Responsible for incidental character designs for Explorer Girls. Contract lasts one month :)
Character Designer
Blue Dream Studios
January 2008 - August 2009
Designed 70+ characters for use in the 3D comic: The Dreamland Chronicles. Responsible for creating designs of incidental and main characters. This is a continuation of the original position as I left on an academic hiatus.
Visual Development Artist
Made in Paradise Production, Inc.
January 2008 - May 2009
Responsible for being an art monkey and answering to my art directors: Carol Police and Karen Keller. Credited as Visual Development and Character Design on feature length Little Engine that Could for Universal Animation Studios 2010.
Character Designer
The Walt Disney Company
November 2008 - December 2008
Responsible for creating characters on incredibly tight deadlines from rough to finished with a plethora of accessories. Worked closely with art director Kevin Hanna to keep on the style of the project, and to clearly illustrate whatever assets were needed.
Comic Book Penciller
Arcana Comics
April 2008 - May 2008
Penciller for Clockwork Girl #4 under Arcana Comics. Answered to Art Director Kevin Hanna and Company Owner Sean O'Reilly. When their current penciller left in the middle of the project, I was asked to take over, emulating his style for the rest of the book. One of the best and most fun projects I've worked on to date.
Sketch Artist
Marvel
January 2008 - April 2008
Responsible for drawing sketches onto trading cards to be randomly inserted into packs of cards. Assigned 200 cards.
Sketch Artist for Indiana Jones
Lucasfilm
December 2007 - January 2008
Responsible for creating sketches of the likenesses of the Indiana Jones movie trilogy to be randomly inserted and distributed in Topps Trading Cards' Indiana Jones Heritage Card Set.
Sketch Card Artist
New Line Cinema
November 2007 - January 2008
Working also in association with Topps Trading Cards. Responsible for drawing 206 unique drawings based off the Lord of the Rings Trilogy of movies produced by New Line Cinema.
Production Assistant/Intern
Made in Paradise
June 2007 - August 2007
Responsible for assisting art directors with tasks such as feature character design, backgrounds, storyboarding. Also responsible for file management, collection of reference materials, scanning, graphic design, and construction of pre-visual development books of past clientèle.
Character and Environmental Designer
Blue Dream Studios
December 2003 - June 2005
Responsible for creating 100+ character designs and a variety of environmental sketches for the project, the Dreamland Chronicles. Worked closely with the art director and modeller to create visually pleasing characters in the same style for a 3D comic book.
