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Montreal, Canada Area

Montreal, Canada Area

- Working closely with the production team, and the Lead Artist, as well as the animation department.- Creating high fidelity character concepts belonging to established IPs (Charmed, Riverdale, Ghostbusters).- Creating concepts from existing references or from scratch.- Creating reference mood boards to define the starting point for each task.- Adapting.

Montreal, Canada Area

- Working closely with Art Director to produce final, stylized background images used in an animated TV series.- Carefully following the established pipeline and maintaining a clean structure in the Photoshop file layers to prepare the assets for compositing.- Using fundamental knowledge of natural and artificial light to produce multiple versions of the.

- Worked on animated short film featured in the third season of The Magicians (SyFy Channel).- Developed Concept Art and Key Frames to determine the art direction of the short film.- Worked closely with the Art Director to develop the Concept Art behind all of the characters, as well as the set pieces.- Developed the storyboard that was used for the.

- Created digital illustrations to be used in the book covers for The Harmatia Cycle, a trilogy by Madeleine Vaughan.- Worked closely with the book's author to bring her vision of the covers to life.- Used Photoshop and Illustrator to create the full look of the jacket, including the digital painting, the logo, and copywriting.- Ensured the files were.

Costa Rica

- Created concept designs for a series of character portraits featured in the GuildMaster game.- Used reference materials provided by the Art director to concept character designs and to render them to a highly-polished production-ready phase.- Worked with the Art Director and a team of two other artists.- Adapted and ensured consistency to the game's art.

- Conceptualized and illustrated artwork used for print campaigns.- Managed brand identity of clients such as Coca Cola, Play-Doh, and many more brands for their marketing campaigns on both print and digital media.- Worked with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator everyday for the creation of said materials.