Wellington, New Zealand
Established digital artist with a broad experience on multiple mediums and platforms from print, animation, web design, mobile and PC games. An artist with stern attention to detail, always looking for ways to improve and learn new skills and technologies. Specialties: Digital Illustration, Traditional Drawing and Painting, Pixel Art, Web Design using HTML and a bit of CSS, Intermediate Flash Skills with basic Action Scripts, Skilled in GUI usability and design. Proficient in the following applications: Photoshop Flash After Effects Particle illusion Premier Pro Dreamweaver ZBrush
I was in charge of overall art direction for the company's flagship game: Valiant Force. I lead a team of 15 people composed of 2D illustrators, 3D artists and animators, FX and UI artists. As one of the founding members of XII Braves, I worked closely with the CEO and COO to put together the art team and to streamline the art production pipeline. In the beginning, there were considerable challenges: getting our junior artists up to speed on the art direction, while doing that remotely, and to establish a solid art style of our first game. Both of which, I believe I have successfully accomplished, as Valiant Force was considered one of the most anticipated games of its genre in 2016. Valiant Force was picked up by our publisher - FunPlus in May 2016 and is now available in Europe, North and South America and the Southeast Asia Region, including Korea and Taiwan. For more info, visit: www.playvaliantforce.com or visit the iOS and Google play pages: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.diandian.valiantforce&hl=en https://itunes.apple.com/sg/app/valiant-force/id1106352070?mt=8
During my stay in Gumi Asia, I worked on several games doing different roles. Puzzle Trooper (2D Art Lead) - helped established the look and initial character designs during the pre-production stage. Worked on some 2D character animations during production while assisting and mentoring our junior UI artist. Slots Reel Frontier (UI and 2D Art Lead) - Came in at a time when the overall UI direction was not set. I helped locked the UI style and design while helping our AD guide and mentor our junior artists. Disney's Big Hero 6: Bot Fight (UI and 2D Art Lead) - Worked closely with the team of Disney Interactive in LA to help realize their vision for the game. I was primarily in charge of the overall UI and was instrumental in locking down the final look and feel of the game. Wakfu Raiders (UI and 2D Art Lead) : The last project I worked on. The intial UI was set by me but was later on revamped by the new UI artist. I left the company before the game was finished.
Worked on the following mobile games for iOS and Android: Monster Blade - Art Lead and UI artist for this strategic action slashing RPG. Was tasked to come up with the primary look and feel of the game thru UI Design. http://play.mob.org/game/monster_blade.html DemonBuster - Lead ui artist for this card-collecting RPG. Japan Life - 2D Artist working on 2d vector buildings using Adobe Illustrator for this popular City Building game based on Japanese culture. http://play.mob.org/game/japan_life.html
-User Experience designer for TableDB, A table management and online reservations system for hotels and restaurants on the iPad. -Front-end Designer for TableDB Business User Website, a business web utility for restaurants who are using the TableDB iPad Application. -Video editing and After Effects for some of TableDB’s video presentations on various conventions.