Thursday, March 26, 2009

Paintings

Here are a few of my paintings I hope you like them.



Wednesday, March 18, 2009

college animations

Here are a few more animations I created while attending The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.




Monday, March 16, 2009

I love to draw and create, so even though I have been working as a full time artist, I also work on my own independent projects when I get home. Here are a few samples of the comic book I have been working on.







Here is a link to an animation I created while still in college. It is all hand drawn 2-D animation.

I worked for Horseland.com for over two years.

I used my artistic skill and keen instincts to help bring the site from a text based game into an interactive, flash based world.

Here is a list of duties I preformed while working at Horseland LLC

Casual Games
- Created original artwork for casual games (characters, gameplay and graphics)
- Designed interface for casual games

World
- Designed layout and environments of virtual worlds.

Character Design
- Prototyped different character and horse style concepts
- Refined styles based on group and user feedback to designed the final style which is seen today on Horseland

Game Assets
- Designed and created XX pieces of clothing, and XX pieces of horse tack and over XX number facial features for customizable avatars
- Designed and created objects and backgrounds and for the immserive virtual world (including World objects, 3D Show objects)

Other
- Graphic design for html pages in website
- Icon creation (buttons, icons, clipart)
- Storyboarding - Interactive menu and interface creation (mini-games, create your own avatar page, shop, horse market, dress avatar, ride page in jr game)

Jr. Game
- Mimicked existing art style (from cartoon) for new assets needed in the website.

Technical Skills
- 3d: 3dsmax (basic level)
- 2d: Adobe Photoshop and Flash (advanced)
- Other software skills you had from school/home projects
- XML (basic)

Quality Assurance
- Tested interactive games, located errors and documented how to recreate them.
Here are some graphics I created for the website horseland.com

Horseland.com fansite graphics

I created graphics, backgrounds, icons and animations for users to put on their Horseland Fansites

Here are some more Images I created for game backgrounds and embellishment art.







Here are a few of the web pages I designed while working for Horseland LLC