Daria Mayorova

Work History

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  Surfacing Artist

  Guru Studio

  April 2024 - Present

  Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  Paw Patrol series
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  Lead Surfacing Artist

  Guru Studio

  September 2022 - February 2024

  Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  Charlotte's Web:
  Leading a team of surfacing/groom artists. Lookdev, surfacing, grooms, base material development, reviews, troubleshooting, generalist support and juggling a dozen other small things
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  Surfacing & Grooming Artist

  Snowball Studios

  June 2021 - June 2022

  Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  Working on surfacing and grooms for human, non-human and creature characters, developing animated shaders/materials for Magic the Gathering show
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  Senior Surfacing Artist/Supervisor

  Deluxe animation

  January 2020 - April 2021

  Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  - Developing the look of the show to match Art Director's vision
  - Surfacing characters, sets, props
  - Supervising an overseas team of surfacing artists
  - Creating foliage library for set dressing needs
  - Troubleshooting, resolving tickets, fixing issues
  - Working closely with Asset leads and SG sups helping with input into creating new studio pipeline
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  Surfacing Artist

  Industrial Brothers

  October 2016 - November 2019

  Toronto, ON

  - Look development
  - Surfacing characters, vehicles, sets, props, foliage, runkits
  - Creating textures, materials and shaders for the reusable library
  - Troubleshooting and optimizing existing work
  - Addressing notes and tickets
  - Occasional modeling tasks and fixes
  
  Productions I've been part of:
  - Top Wing season 1
  - Top Wing season 2
  - Kingdom Force
  - Remi & Boo
  - development work for Dino Ranch and several unannounced projects
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  Surfacing artist

  Arc Productions

  August 2015 - August 2016

  Toronto, ON

  
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  Intern Concept Artist

  AIC Movie Inc.

  October 2014 - December 2014

  

• Graphic Designer

  ООО "Восток-Запад"

  October 2011 - June 2012

  Rostov Region, Russian Federation

  Designing and getting the layouts ready for production of outdoor advertising banners and signs, business cards, invitations; recreating bitmap images in vector; screen printing layouts; photo manipulations for product previews.