I love contributing to action-packed, story-driven, family-friendly media featuring fantastic creatures, characters, monsters, and environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WB Games | Avalanche, SLC, UT, Jan 2018 – present
Concept Artist
Creates and designs drawing and paintings to serve as inspiration, concepts, and direction to outsources teams.
Collaborates with Creative Directors, Art Directors, Producers, Designers, Team Leads, Principle Artists, and other artists from many different teams to solidify designs for props, creatures, environments, level design, and marketing/promotional imagery.

Animal Jam | Wildworks, SLC, UT, Sept 2016-May 2017
Illustrator
• Created Promotional and Marketing material for Animal Jam and Animal Jam: Play Wild
• Illustrated various cartoon animals in various settings to promote seasonal events
• Designed animal avatars to celebrate the promotion of significant players (Jambassadors) in the game

Disney Interactive | Avalanche Software, SLC, UT, June 2014-July 2016
Concept Artist | Marketing Artist
• Created Concepts and Marketing material for Disney Infinity 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 (4.0 unreleased)
• Created conceptual artwork for characters, environments, vehicles, creatures, etc
• Provided final polish on all Infinity figurine marketing imagery

Poptropica, Oct. 2010-June 2014
Concept Artist | Game Designer
• Created and designed characters, environments, games and animations
• Designed gameplay for story episodes and mini-games

American Legacy Publishing, Lindon, UT, Oct. 2009-Sept. 2010
Illustrator
• Created cartoons and realistic illustrations for Math, Social Studies, and Science publications

Sensory Sweep, West Valley, UT, July 2007-Jan. 2009
Concept Artist
• Credited in published game: The Tale of Despereaux
• Designed sketches and Illustrations for The Tale of Despereaux cut scenes
• Designed creatures, characters, environments, vehicles, and also imagery for game pitches

Waterford Research Institute, SLC, UT, Feb. 2002-May 2007
Concept Artist | Multi-media Artist
• Created entertaining illustrations, animations, and interactive educational games to help teach math, reading, and science

SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe After Effects
Maya
Blender