Experience

• Interactive Environment Artist at Disney Interactive

  Kelowna, Canada

  December 2011 - April 2015

  At Disney's Club Penguin I concepted, illustrated, and constructed interactive sets for an ever changing Online World built with Kids in mind.

  Responsibilities included:
  
  · Participated in large all-day brainstorms, planning game events every month
  
  · Gathered references and researched IP material
  
  · Discussed look and feel for events and worked with mood boards
  
  · Drew up rough thumbnails and quick concepts for environment elements for events in Photoshop
  
  · Incorporated role-play elements and interactive functionality for environments
  
  · As part of the production stage, inked and coloured assets in Flash
  
  · Submitted through approval process when working with other IPs
  
  · Participated in frequent peer reviews to ensure the best results, as well as worked closely with the
  
  team for consistency
  
  · Prototyped and scripted interactive experiences in the environments to be handed off to a developer
  
  · Set up necessary functionality for translation
  
  · Submit final assets through pipeline for Web, iOS, and Android
  
  · Document final assets and functionality on in-house wiki
  
  · Worked in a tight re-occurring monthly schedule broken up into sprints using JIRA tickets

  Projects: Monthly re-occuring Club Penguin events including partnerships with Disney's Frozen, Star Wars, Marvel, The Muppets, Pixar's Monsters University, Teen Beach Movie, and Disney Records

• Comic Artist at Wayward Ink (Self Publish)

  KELOWNA, Canada

  October 2015 - Present

  http://bounty.wayward.ink
  
  "Bounty" is a webcomic about two friends, Hazel and Jun, who turn to bounty hunting to find, reclaim and
  
  return what they owe to a truly terrifying debt collector.
  
  · Creating the comic "Bounty", a webcomic which updates once a week on Tuesdays.
  
  · Attending/Tabling occasional Comic Conventions to represent, advertise, and sell Bounty Comics

• Freelance Card Game Illustrator at TBD Card Game Company

  KELOWNA, Canada

  August 2016 - Present

  Creating an all-ages card game, tasks included:
  
  · Brainstormed humourous card illustrations
  
  · Concepted the look of the characters involved in the game
  
  · Concepted, illustrated, coloured cards
  
  · Devised layout and fonts for cards

• Instructor at Centre for Arts and Technology Kelowna

  Kelowna, BC, Canada

  October 2015 - Present

  Taught several DRAW 101 classes on Drawing and Perspective for Animation on several contracts.
  
  · Prepared lessons from a detailed curriculum
  
  · Marked assignments based on a rubric
  
  · Provided instructional art demonstrations
  
  · Related personal industry experience