Jessica Schultz Email & Phone Number

While my official title is UI Artist, I do so much more than just user interface designs at Little Orbit. Every day presents me with new challenges, new things to learn, and new ways to grow.I pride myself on my ability to work fast and work efficiently with high quality results. One of my proudest moments so far has been the accomplishment of reskinning an entire game in under a week. This task required me to: -Complete redesign of the visuals of the game -Design and author entirely new assets -Implement all designs within Unity -Follow the style guide provided to ensure visual consistency between the game and the source IPI also help with concept art and creating 3D assets -Designed weaponry for Unsung Story, creating fully rendered concepts in Photoshop -Modeled, unwrapped, and textured the weaponsProjects: -Shards Deckbuilder -RWBY Deckbuilder -Unsung Story -Descent -APB Reloaded

-I help manage a database of hundreds of freelance artists from around the world, keeping track of their availability, artistic strengths and weaknesses, documenting their progress, and ensuring that their payment information is up to date and accurate.-I am responsible for sending out invoices to artists when they complete their task. I also act as a bridge between the finance department and the artists to quickly answer any questions about invoicing or the payment process.-I review freelancer applications and keep the art-specific email organized-I respond to artists' questions about project scheduling, production timelines, payment information, invoice status, and illustration specifications.-I send out contracts to new freelance artists.

I helped to reimagine and redesign the game's UI for expansion from PC onto console gaming platforms. This task included: -Using Photoshop to mockup ideas for the screen redesigns -Collaborating with the design and engineering teams to ensure proper functionality and user experience -Redesigning the controls and functions of screens for ease of use with a controller while still maintaining playability and flow with a keyboard and mouse -Creating new UI assets and sprites to fit with the evolving aesthetics of the game -Enlarging text for readability and adding console specific button icon hints -Using Adobe Illustrator and TypeTool 3 to create console specific buttons to add to the text sheetsI've helped to design and create battleboards, which are the 3D playmats player's use within the game. I've created concept art for the boards as well as helped create some of the 3D assets and fully texturing everything within the scene.I also create animated card art, animated sleeves, and the animations for the landing page. I create masks, uv textures, and panning textures within Photoshop then use those in the shaders created by a coworker within Unity.Usual daily tasks include: -Collaborating with the design team to design new screens and create mockups for approval -Authoring new assets in photoshop -Laying out new screens and windows within Unity -Adding simple animations -Updating older screens that need a beauty pass

My self-driven and passionate creativity made me a perfect fit for the team and I was offered a full time job after my internship ended. Under the guidance of the senior artists I learned a wide array of new skills both 2D and 3D. Peer review and critique allowed me to refined my art process and pushed me to always seek improvement.-Designed a variety of 2D and 3D icons for various uses throughout the game-Painted concepts for battle boards, class crests, and other illustrative work-Textured full 3D scenes-Modeled simple 3D assets-Converted flat .psd illustrations into parallaxing 3D scenes-Helped to manage assets in the proprietary editor -Edited, touched up, and resized outsourced art to fit the style and fantasy of Hex

Working as a QA lead has helped me to refine my time management skills. I have successfully led two projects at once with a high percentage of first pass submissions. My responsibilities included:-Managing Mantis, the bug-tracking database -Tracking high priority issues which may keep the game from releasing on time-Organizing my team to effectively cover all areas of functionality, standards compliance, regressions, and localization-Keeping my team motivated and on task-Answering any questions a tester may have about standards-Facilitating communication between the QA team and the project producers Additional tasks include:-Helping the customer service team with any questions they may have about the games-Assisting the marketing team by taking screen-shots and capturing game-play footage, as well as helping to crop, touch-up, and edit said screen-shotsProjects:Direct Lead:Winx- DS, 3DSPlanes 2- 3DS, Wii, Wii UPenguins- 3DS, Wii, Wii UAssisting Lead:Adventure Time- 3DS, PS3, Xbox 360, PS Vita, PCFalling Skies: The Game: PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, PC

I excelled at writing clear and concise bug reports with strong attention to detail. This job taught me how to communicate effectively with a team and work together to nail down hard to reproduce bugs. I am self-directed and highly motivated to help produce high quality games free of major issues. I learned to recognize standards on a variety of consoles including Nintendo Wii, Wii U, DS, 3DS, Xbox 360, and PS3. Projects:Barbie Dreamhouse Party- WiiU, Wii, 3DS, DS, PCMonster High: 13 Wishes- WiiU, Wii, 3DS, DSYoung Justice- Xbox 360, Playstation 3, 3DS, PCFalling Skies: Planetary Warfare- iOS, AndroidHex- PCHow to Train Your Dragon 2- WiiU, Wii, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, 3DS

This internship exposed me to a variety of new artists and styles. Through them I was taught a better understanding of form, value, and silhouette. I learned to look critically at an illustration and ask myself, “What makes this a successful piece? What hinders it from being better?” My daily tasks included:Touching up and resizing card artOrganizing and renaming files as per the company naming conventionsHelping to manage assets in the proprietary editorCutting out flattened elements and separatting them into layers in .psd files

Bachelor'S Degree, Game Art And Design

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