Andy Mcculloch Email & Phone Number

Renton, Wa, Us

Renton, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Created UI design and graphics for new features like Bingo, Boosts, and Store Design within DoubleDown Casino mobile app and Facebook games.• Pushed visual UI design for Spinning in Space slot app and produced clean and vibrant graphics for heads-up displays, mission and adventure features, collections feature, and dialogs.• Collaborated with Art Directors creating visual design for pitch deck layouts, User Interface from UX wireframe, and additional illustration to support core game mechanics on new game concepts ranging from Match-3 games to MMORPG and puzzle games.• Designated Technical UI artist to build out responsive and scalable aspect ratio page design in Unity on new game prototypes and continuously iterated concepts based on creative direction from game design and art directors.

London, Gb

• Successfully launched a casual hidden object game company in partnership with Author Digital and played a central role in UI design, logo creation, character and dialog design, and background illustrations for game scenes.• Specialized in crafting icons and game art as a freelance designer and illustrator at Present Creative, collaborating with multiple external clients.• Primary UI Designer for truck driving company, Azuga, and designed concepts for a comprehensive navigation app utilized by employees to monitor driving, safety, and scheduling in the trucking industry.• Responsible for conceptualizing game ideas, producing sketches, crafting background illustrations, character designs, and animations for Steven Universe mobile game app at Enter The Studio.• Present Creative • Azuga • Enter The Studio • Author Digital • Play Chat • Cartoon Network • Bandai Namco Entertainment America • Pop Caphttp://www.andymcculloch.art

As Senior Lead Artist with burgeoning startup game company, Absolute Hero Games, directly influenced the visual style, UI/UX, design, character development, animation and production of all graphics for highly creative and engaging phone, tablet, desktop, laptop and watch games. • Worked alongside lead programmer implementing coordinated pages and code edits of visual material throughout entire game development lifecycles. Wireframed UX design to improve usability, ease of use and user interaction. • Helped develop and deliver several critically successful games, including My Puppy Playday, Love Link and Dream Farm Link, which was completed (every aspect from inception) in five weeks. • Developed all marketing materials and social media graphic content for game promotion.www.absoluteherogames.com

Seattle, Wa, Us

Drove the development of GameHouse Studio’s distinctive visual identity leading to groundbreaking, award-winning UI design, and captivating graphics. Established and led a dynamic cross-functional art team of 15 creative contributors within the Art department.• Oversaw visual development and artistic direction, ensuring a cohesive and brand-centric style for social media game production and frequently collaborated with Producers to design games, create art production schedules, and developed prototypes.• Led visual design and art direction for Bayou Blast, a vibrant and competitive Facebook game (released in Fall 2011), with weekly score leaderboards and reaching an average of 1.5 million daily users.• Spearheaded the visual design for Secret Plant Society, a whimsical Facebook game (released in Fall 2010) with 300+ unique plant and decoration designs; engaging in 1 million daily users in fantastical plant hybridization and gardening.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Played an early pioneering role in shaping the Microsoft Games Group brand, contributing significantly to its foundational development, and playing a pivotal role in the visionary ideation and successful launch of the first generation Xbox console.• Served as the primary texture artist and responsible for enhancing the visual aesthetics and overall appeal for early Xbox games, NFL Fever.• Ensured consistent high-quality texture work on NFL Fever by conducting model reviews to prevent texture stretching and deformation and strategically adding polygons to specific areas for refinement.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Created and applied textures for cars in Need for Speed 2.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• As Artist, Illustrator and Designer with Microsoft, helped pioneer some of the world’s first true multimedia productions, including several iconic Microsoft titles. Handled icon design, illustrations, environments and interfaces for Microsoft’s Interactive Media Production (IMP) division. • Created award-winning sound features, and created dinosaur artwork for Microsoft Dinosaurs CD ROM. Collaborated with world-renowned Hanna Barbara Art Director to create 16 color cartoon product icons for a Windows Multimedia CD.• For flagship product Microsoft Encarta, created and designed myriad article illustrations, and created the UI design for Microsoft Bookshelf, the world’s first multimedia CD ROM. EDUCATION