Collaboration & Communication
Experience as a creative incubator. From leading small teams on rapid prototypes, to coordinating multi-disciplinary teams, to guiding over sixty students on their own game project teams. Clear communication, documentation, deep knowledge of a team’s strengths to align with stakeholder expectations are keys to success.
Example of Style Guide
Embrace Iterative Workflow
Worked in different production styles including agile, waterfall, and kanban. Create sketches, mockups, and fail quickly to get the best ideas out quickly and clearly.
Value Clarity
Technical excellence. Broad knowledge of art creation pipelines and always learning more as the landscape of the industry changes.
Hone Visual Lens
I believe it is imperative to draw from the root of what inspires any artwork without judgement, whether that’s in my in personal practice or in guiding the growth of individual artists and projects. They key is finding beauty in many things, which inevitably leads to working in a wide variety of styles, polishing their best aspects, and ensuring that they all achieve their greatest potential.
The Medium is the Message
I have worked in a variety of mediums and industries including film, animation, video games, comics/webtoon, board game, printed book, app development, and merchandising. With each medium, comes knowledge of its strengths and weaknesses and how they ultimately influence how we connect to our audience.
Connection is Everything
The foundation of life is connection. Art is one channel in which we create meaning through story and imagination. My philosophy on approaching art creation: