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Skills
  • Art Direction
  • Character Design
  • Illustration
  • Storyboarding
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Experience
Art Director, SGN
San Francisco, CA — June 2013 - Present
  • Work with executives to determine art style
  • Establish pipeline and schedule with producer
  • Create vertical slice as proof of concept
  • Construct a style guide to maintain consistency
  • Provide visual direction to artists based on executive feedback
  • Work with engineers to troubleshoot implementation issues
  • Work with team to provide final game-ready assets
  • Organize and track asset progress using JIRA

Visual Development Artist, Contract
San Francisco, CA — July 2012- August 2013
Clients include: Concept Art House, Illumina Studios, Image Metrics, Pocket Gems, BTS Film LLC etc.
  • Work with clients to determine art needs
  • Establish approval process for desired assets
  • Designed characters and created model packets for 3D artists
  • Illustrated high resolution artwork for large event

Art Director and Character Design/ Storyboard Artist, BTS Film LLC
Italy/New York — Sept 2009 - Aug 2013
  • Designed characters based on directors description
  • Created model packets of characters for 3D artists
  • Created all storyboards for proof of concept and short film
  • Provided visual direction to external teams in Italy and New York for 3D character and environment creation

Lead Art Director, Concept Art House
San Francisco, CA - Oct 2009-July 2012
  • Responsible for quality of final product in all departments
  • Hired and trained Art Directors for all departments (2D illustration, 3D, and Flash/Vector)
  • Work with clients to establish a project-specific pipeline/ approval process
  • Problem solved and diffused any client issues or conflicts

Art Director, Concept Art House
San Francisco, CA - Oct 2009 - March 2011
  • Work with clients to determine project scope and art style
  • Establish pipeline and schedule with producer
  • Provide visual direction to artists based on client feedback
  • Work with team to provide final game-ready assets on time
  • Organize all asset progress and client feedback using Basecamp

Artist, Contract
San Francisco, CA - March 2007-Oct 2009
Clients Include: Polygon Entertainment, Concept Art House, and many independent contracts
  • Character design
  • Vehicle Design
  • Storyboarding
  • Childrens book illustration

Artist/Team Lead, Expression College
2006-2007
  • Negotiated school funding to create preproduction materials for an animated short film
  • Organized a team of students to create artwork
  • Lead story meetings
  • Designed characters
  • Created model packets of characters for 3D artists
  • Created storyboards

Intern, Pixar
Emeryville, CA - Jan 2006 - March 2006
  • Organized and sorted all preproduction artwork for Pixar’s movie Cars

Education
Animation Collaborative - Visual Development/ Character Design
Emeryville, CA; 2013-2014
Expressions College - B.S. 3D Animation and Visual Effects
Emeryville, CA; 2004-2007
Lincoln University - B.S. Studio Art
Jefferson City, MO; 1998-2001

Software Proficiency
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Corel Painter
  • Sketchbook Pro
  • Autodesk Maya
  • iWork
  • Microsoft Office
  • Jira
  • Basecamp