- Work with director and producer to translate creative visions into painted backgrounds, provide layout revisions, and produce fully rendered key backgrounds, visuals and imageboards.- Oversee pre-production and production process, compiling materials and mentoring artists to better achieve their career goals within the Japanese animation production pipeline.- Establish an in-studio BG team, recruit and train new members to learn the BG painting process.- Delegate work and supervise other BG artists to match internal project style.- Implement weekly work calls, facilitate production calls with clear tasks & milestone goals.

- Oversaw and coordinated with Producer to streamline tasks for individuals of different disciplines such as art, animation, coding, game design, testing, audio, and music.- Managed artists’ & animators’ workloads to meet milestone deadlines, determined task priorities, work scopes, and proactively communicated obstacles and issues to the team.- Scheduled and ran meetings, maintained clear task tracking and triaging with internal team playthroughs- Prepared in-game footage recordings and other files for publishers, composers, and internal use.- Facilitated clearer documentation for the team to use in better understanding workload and statuses of tasks between different disciplinary teams.

- Reproduced hyper-realistic 2D concept art into detailed 3D models complete with high and low-poly models via Autodesk Maya and Zbrush 4R7- Recreated high resolution textures via Adobe Photoshop