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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Participated in the creation of “Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy”, “Lego Pixar: BrickToons”, “Lego Marvel Avengers: Code Red”, “Lego Jurassic Park: The Unofficial Retelling”, and multiple upcoming Lego animations.
• Collaborated with the art director to design environments, props, vehicles, and character sheets.
• Made extensive use of Photoshop, photobashing, Blender, and other 3D tools to achieve realistic visuals that successfully met the quality standards of clients like Lucasfilm, Pixar, and Marvel.
• Helped coach new artists and created tutorials for new onboarding team members.
• Developed innovative design templates and managed asset libraries in a way that benefited and increased the whole team's efficiency.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Developed an extensive lineup of characters and props for the CG show “Princess Power”.
• Designed key poses, turnarounds, wardrobe explorations, hairstyle charts, expression sheets, anatomytemplates, colour studies, and conducted extensive research to help shape the show’s design language.
• Created multifunctional gadgets, colour scripts, set dressing, material callouts, 2D graphics and FX.
• Produced character design layouts and turnaround templates for the whole team, increasing efficiency and helping to keep the show’s style consistent between the artists.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Revised and designed expression sheets for the main cast of the 2D show Young Love.

Vancouver, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Designed props, environments, graphics, FX, and costume variations for the CG show “Mighty Express”.
• Created material callouts for surfacing and design notes that were easily translatable into 3D assets.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Created concept art and traditional 2D frame animations for an upcoming indie action game;
• Designed characters through silhouette studies, colour exploration, and outfit variations;
• Planned pose breakdowns, created traditional 2D animation frames and polished character designs to be used as in-game models;
• Helped with worldbuilding by designing landmarks, structures, FX, and graphics.

Vancouver, Canada

Participated in the creation of a design package for the academic project BORKSPEL, a VR game developed by VFS Game Design students in collaboration with the Concept Art course.

Animation Concept Art

Graduated with honours

Bachelor'S Degree, Graphic Design