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4+ years in game development, 7+ years in commercial art

looking for remote contract/ part time/ freelance job

Illustration | Marina Evlanova

Throughout my career, I have consistently produced high-quality illustrations, game concepts, character designs, and comics. I was shortlisted in the Book Illustration Competition in 2019 for my Howl's Moving Castle series, and I also have several published comics as artist and author - “The Greatest Fraud”, “Have you seen my glases?”, “Glint” and 1 released PC game - “Know by Heart” (1 more is in progress - “the Epic”). I have experience in the production, presentation and sale of my own comics and apparently this also gave me a lot of experience for being a project manager. I enjoy creating engaging visual narrative art that evokes emotions in viewers, I love projects that pretend to be 2D or have their own unique visual style and would love to make more of them!

Hard skills:

• Concept art
• Hand drawing, sketching
• Composition and coloring
• Frame-to-frame animation
• Graphic design
• Modeling and visualization
• Art history/ trends knowledge
• UI design

Soft skills:

• Creativity
• Communication
• Leadership
• Time Management
• Project Management
• Good learning ability

Software:

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Indesign
• Adobe Illustrator
• Procreate
• Figma
• UE5
• Blender
• Zbrush

Education:

• ***PMclub courses: “Project management 101”, and “How to manage remote team”***
• Netology course: “How to build an indie game (business processes)”
• Moscow State University of Printed Arts (2015 - 2020) - ended by specialist degree as an artist and graphic designer. Diploma: https://www.marinaevlanova.com/orientir

Employment:

Far-Far Games studio — Art Director

https://farfargames.com

(may 2022 - apr 2024)

• I made the core “The Epic” project vision
• Managed all in-studio artists and outsource creative specialists
• I brainstormed with studio executives and drew key artworks for new locations and bosses.
• UI/UX developing: I prototyped and drew main assets and elements
• I wrote and maintained all the art design documentation and guidelines
• Invented and developed 2D frame-to-frame VFX (fire, wind, trails, impacts, etc.)
• Created 2D animated cutscenes (sketched storyboards, painted backgrounds and managed the processes in common with 2 artists and a motion designer)
• I have supervised other studio projects
• I worked closely with other departments: 3D and level designers, programmers, game-designers and script writers

Ice-Pick Lodge studio — 2D Generalist

https://ice-pick.com/en/

(feb 2020 - feb 2022)