Work
Shire Post Mint
Designer - January 2016-May 2018
Worked for a small, family-run coin mint. Created marketing materials, design and packaging for licensed fantasy coins.
Developed workflows to better efficiency in writing copy, printing, and product photography. Researched fantasy worlds in-depth to create coin concepts and designs.
Managed successful Kickstarter that made 1200% of goal, wrote updates and provided support to 1,700+ backers.
Researched fantasy worlds in-depth to create coin concepts and illustrate designs.
Tesseract Center - University of Arkansas
3D Artist - October 2012-September 2016
Tesseract is a game development and visualization studio housed at the University of Arkansas. Worked as an undergrad and after graduation creating immersive 3D games for educational courses in the Unity engine.
Worked closely with a team of about fifteen other artists, designers, and programmers creating 3D art for involved, multi-year projects.
Responsible for self-learning professional game art techniques.
Developed Tesseract name, identity, and branding. Helped create and establish the Tesseract Center at the university.
New Student and Family Programs
Graphic Design Intern - July 2011
Worked closely with administrators and project managers to execute creative re-branding efforts for programs at the University of Arkansas.
Concepted events and illustrated t-shirts, posters and other promotional materials for those events.
Education
University of Arkansas (2009 - 2014)
BA in Fine Art (Visual Design)
BA in Computer Science
Classes
Branding internship - One of four students in class learning brand and identity creation on premises at DOXA design.
Typography - Learned how words and letters are made most readable, and how people process written information.
Graphics - Learned the basics of the computer graphics pipeline from a computer science perspective.
Projects
Completely rebuilt the Shire Post Mint website using the Shopify platform and used data processing to automatically build HTML entries for hundreds of products.
Created a semi-automatic workflow for Shire Post Mint to quickly photograph coins at real size and remove backgrounds.
Used existing online tools to build a web interface for managing inventory flow and recording product details during all stages of production.
Software & Skills
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
Premiere
Unity 3D
Maya
ZBrush