I am a Creative Lead in Marketing, working primarily on The Sims 4, as well as other EA Published titles -- Plants Vs. Zombies (console and mobile), Rustheart (in development). My work includes:-Animation, visual development/identity, art direction, posing/render static art, photo touch-up and CG post-render cleanup for physical packaging such as game covers, as well as web.-Creating Style Guides & Technical Documentation for on-boarding new hires / external partners, and maintaining the cohesive visual identity of products.-Working with external vendors to provide direction, feedback, and streamline processes for minimal turnaround/revisions. -Innovated a flexible and unified animation pipeline across multiple game titles which use different engines. These assets were then integrated into Unity for Cinematic work. -Created custom tools using mel/python to automate elements of workflow.-Used proprietary game engine tools to empower game-capture artists to with greater flexibility in customizing animations tailored specifically to a cinematic trailer's needs. This reduced the bottleneck of relying on an animator's time to produce new animations, -Led exploration/research into new content, such as early development on creating a unified animation rig that can be used across any pipeline. -Working in collaboration with artists, directors, and producers across multiple functions, such as game development, marketing/brand management, strategy, community engagement, diversity & inclusion, brand design, external partners, and clients.

In addition to my work as a Cinematics Lead at EA, I am Global Communications Lead for EA's LGBTQIA+ Employee Resource Group. A few highlights from this incredibly rewarding work:- Writing copy for both internal and public-facing messages.- Graphic Design for event promotion and internal branding.- Organized and Hosted informational events to spread awareness and increase inclusion of LGTBQIA+ employees. This includes weekly talks attended by 20-30 employees, and one-off Presentations / Q+A events attended by ~150 employees.- Spoke on panel for a company-wide conversation -- attended by 6,212 employees -- which addressed systemic racism and allyship.-Participated in several gaming industry interviews, highlighting both my experience as an LGTBQIA+ person in games, and how that has informed the work I do in the industry. These articles are linked below:

I worked across many different platforms, projects large and small, encompassing a range of styles, largely as a 3d Animator, with some Modeling/Texturing, 2d/Flash Animation/Illustration and Motion Graphics/Editing work in After Effects. This work included TV Commercials, Game Development, and Web Games/Advertsing. I worked both remotely and on-site with Producers, Art Directors, and Leads as the primary point of contact.Agencies: Eyeball Inc, Telltale Games, 321 Launch, Attik Design, MetamokiClients: Ubisoft, Trident, Scion, various others

Animation, motion capture cleanup, layout and 3d camera work for commercial/pre-vis production. The turnaround/production schedules were very tight for each spot, often just around 1 week, and involved many client revisions with similarly tight turnaround times, often 1 day.Clients: Budweiser, Becks, Stella, Febreze, various others

I worked to create both 2d illustrations of character and background art assets, and 3d models and animations for ipad/iphone games. Duties also included concept art, creating physics objects for the games and other miscellaneous, integration-related tasks.

Character animation for the Sims 3 Pets. I worked on various setups including humans, horses, cats & dogs. I was also responsible for technical work preparing assets for in-game integration & working with programmers to troubleshoot. Halfway through my contract I moved on to the Video Capture team and worked to create custom animation content and animation technical support for Sims 3 promotional videos.

I've worked as a character animator at Cinematico on a variety of projects that range from pre-rendered game cinematics to National Geographic TV specials. The studio structure often provides animators the opportunity to take a larger role in the scenes we work on. I've found myself taking on some directing responsibilities and have had a high degree of creative input/responsibility in my work as an animator at this studio.

I worked as a character animator on The Sims 3. My goal as an animator was to convey a strong sense of personality and emotion in each character; to provide the game with a life-like quality. A big part of this job also involved working closely with people in other disciplines to implement the animation in the game and to have a fairly solid technical understanding of the in-game mechanics.

I did character animation, fx animation, and compositing for a web-based game and video campaign.

I worked as a character animator on The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, video game. Much of the work I did was for in-game cutscenes and involved camera layout and dialogue driven character animation. I also worked on in-game action animations and collaborated with programmers, level designer, etc to implement animation assets and fix bugs.

I worked as a 3D artist doing modeling and texturing for props and environments on a number of games. Some of the titles include: -John Woo Presents: Stranglehold-Area 51: Blacksite-The Bourne Conspiracy