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As Digital Artists, Illustrator and Art Director I have over 10 years of experience in the film and computer games industry.

I’m very honored to have worked on such brands as “Command & Conquer Play4Free” from Electronic Arts, “DSA Drakensang” from Radon Labs

and the feature film “Jasper and the travel around the world” from ToonsNTales (Twenty Century Fox).

Areas of Expertise:

Art Direction (mobile game, mobile app, corporate design, online, print)
Concept Art (brand, character, environment, prob design, lighting)
Story Boarding (process illustration, story driven character development & film
UI & User Experience Design (browser, mobile, optimized used acquisition and flow)
3D Character Animation (gravity, weight, timing, spacing, lip-sync)
3D Environment Art (concept, level art, modeling, texturing, elevation and progress)

Management Skills:

Establish and maintain Creative Vision (art and development team)
Leading art teams & enhancing workflows; 5-20 art team (technical flows and creative skills)
Project Pitching (clients, publishers)

Software Skills:

Maya – Expert (10 years: polygonal modeling, shading, rendering and rigging)
ZBrush and Mudbox – Pro (5 years: human anatomy, animal anatomy, hard surface modeling)
Bodypaint – Pro (4 years: seamless painting, layering)
Photoshop – Expert (15 years: painting, retouching, vector illustration)
Excel, Powerpoint, Word & Outlook (10 years: scheduling, managing, presenting, writing)
After Effects (5 years: compositing, keying, animation and fx)
additional: Adobe Premiere

Game & Feature Film Experience: