Billy Patton Email & Phone Number

Las Vegas, NV, US

Santa Monica, California, US

Created a new concept art pipeline for Hero Forge, including a formalized style guide, concept art format, and streamlined onboarding of freelancers/contractors. Scheduled concept art tasks with various freelancers/outsourcers. Recruited, hired, and onboarded new freelance concept artistsIncreased the concept art output by 50%Expanded the role of the.

New York, NY, US

• Actively supported an ongoing project with both Concept Art ideation and working with other artists, providing feedback, and managing the Concept Art team.
• Created Concept Art pipeline and documentation for in-house artists and vendors to create efficient and positive feedback processes.
• Provided feedback and art direction for concept art to outsource studios.
• Created Character, Prop, Environment, and VFX concepts for an unannounced Apple Arcade Game based on licensed IP.
• Met with and managed relationships with IP stakeholders outside the company for approval of project concept art.
• Interfaced with in-house stakeholders and individual contributors to maintain open lines of communication to both receive and implement feedback.

San Francisco, California, US

Full-time Remote working on an Unannounced Isometric game at Zynga, providing concept, marketing, and being as generally helpful to the team as I can.

Greenwich, CT, US

• Created concept art, animation, FX, in-game, 2D and 3D assets, characters, environments, and props for a variety of clients.
• Client: CMD Agency, Portland Or. (3-month contract) - Principal Artist, Outrush Ordinary Advertising Campaign and Mobile Game for Microsoft Surface and The National Football League. Concepted and created in-game, 2D.
• Client: Proscenium, Inc. – Created two custom comic books for internal use following script and guidelines provided by the client.
• Client: Hasbro, Inc. Created concept art for Marvel Superheroes and Star Wars toy lines.

Redmond, Washington, US

• For Mixer, I had a variety of roles working with a very talented team of UI/UX designers in creating the next generation of the Mixer.com website. Season 2 is an expansion of Mixer’s dedication to its community and.
• I collaborated with Creative Director and Art Director to create background lore for upcoming seasons.
• I have created concept art around various tasks involving Mixer Season 2.
• I was responsible for creating high-quality assets for use throughout the Mixer Platform.
• I have worked with Devs to create particle VFX through the Babylon.js system (similar to Unity)
• I have given feedback to my teammates regarding design choices for various refreshes of existing screens and new screens.

Culver City, California, US

Created 2D concept and marketing art. Created a few in-game 3D assets and textures. Created game pitches and help develop game ideas. Participated in game testing.

Helped define the style and look of Poker Heroes. Created concepts and character art. Illustrated marketing art assets.

Seattle, WA, US

Concept and Production art for Mobile and Social Games.Including:Preliminary sketchesStoryboarding gameplay and UIVector and raster IllustrationsCharacter, creature, prop, and environment concepts

London, Ontario, CA

• Led team in exploration of various styles for each project
• Created concepts for game levels in cooperation with the Level Designers
• Maintained overall artistic styles/aesthetics for projects
• Created User Interface elements and other graphic design elements
• Created illustrations and concept art as needed
• Created and oversaw marketing art

Ruston, Louisiana, US

• Led art team in the exploration of various styles for each project
• Interacted with the modelers and texture artists on a daily basis for input on 3D pipeline and improving existing 3D production pipeline to optimize the 3D output
• Created concepts for game levels in cooperation with the Level Designers
• Created character, vehicle, weapon, and prop concepts for console project and iPhone applications
• Textured 3d models using Photoshop and BodyPaint as needed
• Worked to maintained overall artistic styles/aesthetics for console projects

• NOTABLE WORKS
• Wetworks #13, sequential illustrator—Wildstorm Studios
• Spider-man Toy Series 2008—Hasbro, Inc.
• Tom Clancy-verse comic book concept art—Wildstorm Studios
• Spider-man Toy Series—Hasbro, Inc.
• Toy Design, DC Direct—“Elseworlds” Toy Line, Crisis on Infinite Earth Toy Line

Created sequential comic book pages under deadline and meeting editorial guidelines on appearance of company IP.

Bfa, 2 Dimensional Studies

High School Diploma, College Prep