Sam Chon Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles County, California, United States

BG Layout Artist for the 2D animated TV series, Invincible.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Past clients include: Riot Games, Lex & Otis Animation, The Jim Henson Company, Darewise Entertainment, Future House Studios, SAG-AFTRA.
• Outsourced by Riot Games through Lex & Otis as a Senior concept artist for 2 trailers; Valorant: Spark and Valorant: Revelation. Conceptualized multiple props, motorcycle design; interior and exterior design of a.
• Storyboarded and sketched for SAG-AFTRA unannounced project. Showcasing different cutaways and cut-to establishing shots.
• Art consultation for Taggart LLC; style-guides and research with pre-vis block meshes in Blender.
• Conceptualized VR mood paintings, supplying 3D environment builds with final 2D explorations in terms of lighting, mood, and theme. Understanding VR pipelines, dependencies, and overall scope of the project. Projects.
• World building from established book series The Witchlands, by Susan Dennard; research and development of different locations and cultures; illustrating massive environment designs; character costumes and human.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• 4+ Accredited classes from beginner to advanced courses in visual storytelling and mentorships.
• Educated, mentored, and led 120+ students for 4+ semesters and 2 workshops.
• Introduced and set in place Blender and PureRef software in the college.
• Designed and implemented detailed curriculums using Excel, Word, G Suite, and Outlook.
• Providing guidance and inspiring countless students with detailed critiques, paint overs, and best professional practices.
• Industry standard techniques and workflow practices through the use of digital and traditional mediums such as but not limited to: drawing, Blender, Photoshop, Maya, Unreal, and Procreate.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Visual Development Artist and Matte Painter for Jurassic World: Chaos Theory and Mood Painter and Designer for Unannounced project; creating inspirational environments to be used in pitch deck for green lighting new.
• Designed modern sets of exterior and interiors through strong communication with Animators, Story, Lighters, Production, Executives and Directors.
• Built customizable and comprehensive vehicle designs from sketch to 3D to be used across multiple episodes and seasons. Attention to detail for mechanical parts, materials, and scale; extreme breakdowns of suspension.
• Architecture and industrial designs; maintaining simplicity by creating visually stunning modular environments and re-usable pieces.
• Asset organization and tracking through JIRA and Shot Grid.
• Utilized Maya for importing and exporting assets, sets, and props from previous and current projects.

France

• Concept Artist and Marketing Artist for Life Beyond; creating mood paintings, creature designs, characters and marketing illustrations.
• Presenting and developed high vision concept art for multiple biomes and areas of interest.
• Explorations in creature anatomy; functions and purpose; world building ecosystems for creatures and their biomes.
• Sci-Fi ship designs. Near future and minimalistic colony ships. Design language to be used in architecture.
• Communicated effectively with Art Director and Executive to compile multiple marketing paintings to be used in promotions of the Metaverse video game.
• Interpersonal skills in understanding culture of out of state studio and best practices.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Background Painter and Designer for Ark: the Animated Series. Visual Development Artist for RAID: Call of the Arbiter.
• Painted and designed over 80+ backgrounds for Ark: The Animated Series.
• Sci-fi and fantasy designs, exploring different styles and production requirements.
• Advanced foundational skills in color theory, materials, 2D textures; multiple lighting scenarios; time of day; identifying mood and theme; separating layers for parallax animations and VFX artists.
• Designed high quality inspirational paintings with callouts for RAID: Call of the Arbiter.
• Designing and painting medieval designs and fantasy themed locations.

• Art lead for Groove Jones LED Volumetric Holodeck and VR Experience for Aurea Softwareat the Mobile World Congress.
• Led a 10-member cross functional on project scope, aesthetic, while converting conceptualideas into immersive virtual reality content in Unreal Engine.
• Creating UI elements to be used for Holodeck VR. Near future designs with animating sliders and widgets.
• Industrial interior concepts made in Modo for Unreal; Concepting layouts and spaces for rotoscoped actors to be able to interact with the environment.
• Coordinating with Groove Jones and Directors for quality assurance in VR venue; assuring designs meet production standards; constantly adapting to technology restraints/improvements for a fully immersive, LED laid.
• Concept Artist for Wave XR's Justin Bieber - An Interactive Virtual Experience.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• AAA titles Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
• Conceptualized visual support materials, including 3D block-ins, renders, production callouts, Styleguides, and environment paintings to assist the development team.
• Environment Concept art, illustrations, mood paintings, and high quality prop asset designs for multiple maps and locations.
• Prepared documents, reference boards, style-guides for design briefs.
• Delivered immersive and next gen visuals for remastered MP map, Launch.
• Blender and Modo build; Russian influenced salvaging ship for MP map Armada, along with a submarine attachment. Breakdown includes detailed functionality callouts, sectioned pieces, cover elements, gameplay.

• Created environment mood paintings for "The Witchlands: TV Series" in collaboration with Film Director Alice Waddington and Art Directors, encompassing initial sketches, characters and detailed environmental.
• Prepared style guides and detailed breakdowns of realistic locations, people, culture, environment, and aesthetics.
• Illustrated a vast amount of establishing shots, setting the mood and tone for a location.
• Established character designs, props, and scenes through color scripts and keyframes.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Outsourced by Riot Games, Vicarious Visions, Sony Santa Monica, and Treyarch studios.
• Shipped mobile game title RIVAL: Crimson X Chaos.
• Outsourced by WMASG - Airsoft & Guns. Designed a near future military tactical helmet.
• Illustrated matte paintings to be used for battle arenas.
• Tower designs for individual arenas, maintaining design language of the environment.
• Icons and graphic elements for menus.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Introduced a range of visual assets, from storyboards and thumbnails to final production illustrations.
• Character turnarounds, mood paintings, and pitch deck illustrations.
• 3 month internship as a student.

Jacksonville, North Carolina Area

• Ensured mission success for passengers, cargo, weapon systems and fuel on the CH53E-Super Stallion helicopters. Squadron HMH-464.
• Advanced training in leadership qualities, coordination between teams, public speaking, and organization.
• Multiple qualifications in mechanical spreadsheets, mechanic troubleshooting publications, hydraulic systems, fuselage, turbo jet engine specs, weapon configurations and quality assurance.
• Mastery in written and verbal skills for effective communication under extreme pressure.
• Mastery in time management, adhering to schedules and deadlines for innumerable amount of assignments. Flexibility to sudden changes and able to adapt/learn quickly.
• Worked within a team structure with multiple backgrounds, departments, and cultures. Contributing to a collective effort for low and high pressured tasks.