Yauheni Kruk Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:- Collaborating with Senior Art Direction, Project Leadership and Art Leads to deliver a cohesive, aligned art direction that best supports the game experience.- Managing, coaching, and developing the Art team, ensuring their growth as a unit and as individuals while allowing them to receive, distil, and act on feedback.- Overseeing the Art team’s pipelines and processes, helping the team achieve quality by using efficient workflows and best practices.-… Show more Responsibilities:- Collaborating with Senior Art Direction, Project Leadership and Art Leads to deliver a cohesive, aligned art direction that best supports the game experience.- Managing, coaching, and developing the Art team, ensuring their growth as a unit and as individuals while allowing them to receive, distil, and act on feedback.- Overseeing the Art team’s pipelines and processes, helping the team achieve quality by using efficient workflows and best practices.- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define business needs and drive mutual vision and goals.- Planning and prioritising the project’s Art deliverables, determining the best development strategies, and sanity-checking the Art Scope.Achievements:- Successfully delivered art content through multiple project gates within strict time and headcount limitations.- Re-evaluated the project's content plan: engaged with the game stakeholders (Narrative, Design, Production, Tech) and introduced a more feasible scope for the given timeline, business goals and resources.- Established new effective art production pipelines for internal teams and external partners. Show less

Responsibilities:- Defining visual targets for art content that can be executable in given technical constraints, team capacity and timeline.- Recruiting, managing and mentoring a multidisciplinary team of 3D and 2D artists (a fully remote multinational team).- Establishing production pipelines and processes within the art teams and external stakeholders.- Working closely with Product, Design and Tech teams to align on a vision of cross-discipline features.Achievements:-… Show more Responsibilities:- Defining visual targets for art content that can be executable in given technical constraints, team capacity and timeline.- Recruiting, managing and mentoring a multidisciplinary team of 3D and 2D artists (a fully remote multinational team).- Establishing production pipelines and processes within the art teams and external stakeholders.- Working closely with Product, Design and Tech teams to align on a vision of cross-discipline features.Achievements:- Built one of the best-looking video game art on a mobile platform.- Created a set of artistic guidelines that unified the artistic style of the project and reduced the number of content reworks.- Developed and implemented technical optimisation guidelines that boosted rendering performance by 10% for low-end devices without significant visual downgrade.- Created and integrated new art pipelines that reduced production time by 30%, significantly improved production flexibility and increased stakeholder transparency.- Integrated a point-based task complexity system that significantly reduced miscalculations in planning and scheduling.- Successfully implemented knowledge-sharing practices in the team. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:- Full ownership of the art content for the entire product: in-game 3D art, UI, and Play Store marketing materials.- Recruiting, managing and mentoring a multidisciplinary team of 3D, 2D and Tech artists.- Part of the game leadership/executive team.Achievements:- Successfully delivered the project that got over 30 mission downloads on the Google Play Store.- Produced complete game content within a tight startup budget and timeline.- Successfully… Show more Responsibilities:- Full ownership of the art content for the entire product: in-game 3D art, UI, and Play Store marketing materials.- Recruiting, managing and mentoring a multidisciplinary team of 3D, 2D and Tech artists.- Part of the game leadership/executive team.Achievements:- Successfully delivered the project that got over 30 mission downloads on the Google Play Store.- Produced complete game content within a tight startup budget and timeline.- Successfully created and AB-tested marketing art materials that increased download conversion by over 50% and significantly contributed to the game’s success.- Recruited full-scope art team within a tight startup budget and timeline- Pushed multiple data-driven decisions (tutorial improvements, game levels adaption for beginners, bots implementation) that more than twice improved first-day user retention Show less

Responsibilities:- Modelling, texturing, in-engine assembling and optimisation of complete game levels.Achievements:- Owned and successfully delivered seven game levels following the project's artistic direction and deadlines.