Yu Ming Y. Email & Phone Number

United States

San Francisco, California, Us

SHIPPED MOBILE GAME TITLESCore Game Division:Game of Thrones™: LegendsUnannounced Project (CURRENT)Social Casino Slots Division:Game Of Thrones SlotsResponsibilities: - Generate different game & feature ideas with a 5~6 people prototype team. - Design UI wireframe, layout & quick interactive demo to show UX flow.- Working with PMs and game designers to draft in-game feature specs. Helping them visualize the preliminary UI layout and UX flow; also identify & resolve possible UX problems at the early ideation phase. - Participate in user testing session; observe and analyze player's feedback on our interactive demo build. Iterate on the UI/UX design based on key takeaways on internal UX research team's report. - Explore and define UI visual style for the prototype with the Art Director.- Create polished UI assets and implement them in Unity. - Create UI hand-off documentation for engineers.- Create art instruction packages for art outsourcing; provide feedback on WIPs to external vendors based on the guideline set by the Art Director.- Create storyboards for UI/ in-game animation.

San Francisco, California, Us

SHIPPED MOBILE GAME TITLESSocial Casino Slots Division:Spin it Rich! Slots mobileHit It Rich! Slots mobileThe Wizard of Oz SlotsRiches of Olympus SlotsReal Money Gambling (RMG):Zynga Plus Poker Zynga Plus CasinoResponsibilities: - Create 2D artworks with licensed IPs; including characters, props, environment background paintings, UI assets and marketing materials. - Support feature prototype teams on visual development for new games for green-light review Meeting. - Create rough effect animation / graphics motion for ideation.- Work as outsourcing manager, create art instruction packages for outsourcing, including art direction, compositional sketches, reference photos, psd file templates and instructional docs. Oversee the art production from rough color sketches to polished final artworks and provide feedback on WIPs to external vendors. Also, manage the vendor's art production to match with our internal production needs and schedule.

San Francisco, California, Us

CastleVille- Create concept for art assets and characters.- Create in-game promotional illustrations.

San Francisco, California, Us

Mobile Division:Canceled Project -Working closely with the Art Director to create stylized, detailed and appealing art assets. Mainly focus on designing decor items. BattlestoneCreate pre-viz concepts (characters and environments) and marketing materials under art director's instruction. Dream ZooWorking closely with the Art Director and art team to create stylized, fun and appealing art assets, including decor items, habitats and animals.

San Francisco, California, Us

Cafe World- Manage a small team of 3 production artists/ Create art assets, such as, decors and UI elements./ Provide guidance/feedback for my team on design and style consistency./ Manage artists' production schedules with the art producer. - Manage outsourcing. Work with several vendors in China./ Work as a quality gatekeeper./ Provide style guides and feedbacks for the vendors./ Prioritizing schedules of several simultaneous outsourced art tasks./ - Help prototyping new game features with the art team for in-house pitching.- sit-in game design spec review meetings./ Provide artistic suggestions and solutions if needed.

San Francisco, California, Us

Cafe World- Working with Art Lead to create cute and fun decor items. - Animate art decor assets in Adobe Flash.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Organized CrimeJun 2009 - Aug 2009The Legend of SpireholdAug 2009 - Dec 2009Hi5 Network Virtual Gift StoreJune 2009 - Dec 2009Working with the Art Director to create digital assets and illustrations for Hi5 gift store and games.

Bfa, Animation / Illustration

Aa, Art