Experience

• Art Director at BreakoutBit

  Lynnwood, WA, United States of America

  March 2018 - Present

  Responsible for multiple graphic novels and illustrated book projects for a mobile publishing platform.
  
  ● Directed, inspired and mentored a team of 17 artists, 3 graphic designers from the ground up.
  
  ● Oversaw production workflow - both internal team and external vendors on a daily basis.
  
  ● Directed various art styles and workable pipelines for individual story project based on target
  
  audience’s interests, company’s interests, and market researches.
  
  ● Contributed to storytelling, storyboarding, mood design, color scripting, character/environmental
  
  designs, layout/composition designs, coloring/shading, and final compositing.
  
  ● Strong cross-discipline collaboration with Creative director and the marketing team.

• Art Director/Founding Partner at Qubit Games

  Taipei, Taiwan

  October 2013 - October 2017

  Responsible for multiple new IPs on mobile and PC platforms using in-house voxel game engine.
  
  ● Directed and mentored team of 12 developers - including art, design, programming, and marketing.
  
  ● Oversaw product developments - both internal team and external development partners.
  
  ● Responsible and executed content creation on 2D/3D assets ranging from: concepting, modeling,
  
  texturing, rigging, animating, lighting, SFX, HUD/UI, video editing for in-game, and marketing assets.
  
  ● Worked with the programming team on building in-house voxel based tools, performance tuning.
  
  ● Direct collaboration with publisher, worked and supported the Operation team on deliver bi-weekly
  
  updates and in-game events assets.
  
  Experiences on business development side:
  
  ● Established business planning and company strategies.
  
  ● Sought for co-development opportunities, external partnership discovery.
  
  ● Pitch presentations to major Japanese developers and publishers.
  
  ● Game creation consulting for indie game developers and students.

• Senior Character Artist at WB Games/Monolith

  Kirkland, WA, United States of America

  September 2009 - February 2012

  Worked closely with Art Director on visual creation/direction to characters for a multiplayer shooter game,
  
  based on DC comic by using updated Fear Engine.
  
  ● Helped to create initial character art style, workflow for internal and external development partners.
  
  ● Worked closely with the outsourcing manager on external development.
  
  ● Contributed character design, sculpting, modeling, texturing, rigging, posing and rendering.

• Lead Character Artist at SCEA/Santa Monica Studios

  Santa Monica, CA, United States of America

  April 2004 - June 2009

  Established foundational visual direction, elements, and concepts for God of War character art style.
  
  ● Established and maintained visual-bar quality art on character related assets throughout the franchise.
  
  ● Contributed concepting, modeling, texturing, skinning to major characters, weapons, and world objects.
  
  ● Developed several solutions at the time have never been done before, made dramatically visual quality
  
  improvements while maintained the same game performance.
  
  ● Worked very closely with various departments to maintain visual quality while supporting the needs and
  
  goals of their disciplines.