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-Creating Concept arts, Visual Developments, and Illustrations for various clientsClient List:Celestial Beings StudioFlat Toe StudiosBlizzard EntertainmentCryptozoic EntertainmentFalcon’s Tree House5th Planet GamesDrissi Creative StudioCaribbean CinemasNeoteric clothing Wild Sphere Fun Byte Gamesd’Art Studio

R&D

- Accountable for providing the product team with clear visual direction enabling them to deliver quality products consistently.- Ensure Art Craft Leads are collaborating with other leaders to assign the right artists to each project.- Reviews work of internal and external artists and give feedback to ensure quality and consistency expectations are met.- Accountable for identifying staffing needs and ensuring that every role is filled.- Responsible for multiple teams executing on product objectives.

Art Lead on the personalization content team, managing artist careers, growth and development, Improving the pipeline and process with AD, DM, PO and other art leads.

Working on League of LegendsChampion Update Mentoring junior artist with colors and hand painted textures

Teaching Environment design for game classMentorship for senior game art students

-Creating Concept arts, In-game icons, and textures for World of Warcraft gameFull credit/ AAA title shipped:World of Warcraft Mist of Pandaria World of Warcraft Cataclysm

-Illustrating key-arts for video games, movies, and book cover.-Collaborating with graphic designers to create video game advertisement campaign.-Creating art assets for web designer.-Creating story board for AV artist.

Illustrating 2009 holiday season promo for high profile client

Teaching: Foundation art class, Figure drawing class, Intro to entertainment design class

painting backgrounds for Avatar animation show.