Welcome to the portfolio page of Karsten Mehnert!
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).
- 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)
- 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