Mieke Hutchins

Work History

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  Sr. Graphic Designer

  eBay

  January 1998 - January 2004

• Freelance Concept Artist

  Mieke Hutchins Design

  2010 - November 2018

  Design, Pre-production and Post-production for Books, Film, AAA Games, and Mobile & Social Games.
  
  Welcome to Marwen (2018)
  Nuthin But Mech 4 (2018)
  Rings (2017)
  Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
  Terminator Genisys Poster (2015)
  Mass Effect 3 (2012)
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  Art Director

  Niantic, Inc.

  March 2013 - October 2023

  Art Director for AR Platform experiences
  
  Principal Artist on Monster Hunter Now
  
  Art Director on Niantics first fully AR game, Peridot.
  
  Publishing Art Director Transformers Heavy Metal
  
  Lead Concept on some of the early stages of “Pikmin Bloom”
  
  Lead Artist on the original Pokemon Go 2016 launch team.
  
  Assisted in the creation of Ingress from Beta to official launch in 2014.
  
  Leading a wonderfully talented team of designers and creating high-level concept art for some of Niantic Labs most ambitious upcoming location-based augmented reality titles. Involved in initial concepting all the way through asset creation and in-engine design for use in the shipped title.
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  Owner

  trycarrots

  November 2018 - Present

  Portland, Oregon, United States

  Mixed Media Artist: sculpting, wood carving, lasercutting, painting, clay and embroidery

• Apprentice Concept Artist

  Whiskytree Inc.

  June 2007 - February 2009

  Ironman (digital matte painter)
  Bedtime Stories (digital matte painter)
  Zohan (compositing/roto)
  EA Need for Speed 9 (concept artist)
  Meyer Sound (concept artist)
  Burton Snowboards (motion graphics artist)
  Nokia (motion graphics artist)
  Mozilla (motion graphics artist)
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  Lead Digital Matte Painter / Concept Artist

  Matte World Digital

  November 2010 - April 2011

  Captain America: The First Avenger (digital matte painter/concept artist)
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  Lead Digital Matte Painter / Concept Artist

  Matte World Digital

  August 2011 - October 2011

  Hugo (digital matte painter/concept artist)
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  Google, Niantic Labs

  May 2015 - Present
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  Lead Digital Matte Painter

  Atomic Fiction

  October 2011 - March 2013

  

  

  
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  Matte World Digital

  November 2010 - October 2011

  

  

  

• Image Movers Digital

  February 2009 - November 2010

  
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  Whiskytree

  May 2007 - January 2009

  

  

• Doug Chiang Studio

  May 2011 - July 2012