Full name
Jill Q
Title
Game Artist
Location
San Francisco Bay Area
Blurb
A multi-talented game artist ranging from brand development, game art, original illustrations, character design, and graphic design.
Biography
I have been a creative artist for social and mobile gaming for over 10 years with a wide range of creative skills and knowledge of various production applications. I've been a long time user of Adobe Creative Suite as well as other similar apps including: Serif's Affinity Creative Suite, Clip Studio Paint, and Figma. I also have some knowledge of 3D including Blender, Maya, and Marmoset.
I have been a long time gamer starting with the Commodore 64 that I've played at my cousins until I owned a second hand Atari and eventually a gift from my parents with the first Nintendo. Since then I've been gaming with so many different platforms. Probably not so much now but what I loved the most about video games that has always been the catchy visuals of art brought to life through games.
Besides games, I enjoy creating with my hands such as knitting, crochet and the latest thing I got myself into is sewing. I’m also an avid cyclist.
Experience
Concept and Graphic Artist
The Shepherds Stuiods
Curated a variety of fictional branding and character/prop concept art and merchandise for sci-fi thriller, Scepter.
Marketing Graphic Designer
nWay Inc.
Crafted marketing materials, prepared NFT pins (Olympics), deck slides, and concept art for nWay’s games as a cross-functioning creative between marketing and art teams for some of their popular titles: Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, Olympic Games Jam, and Wreck League.
Marketing Art Coordinator
Nifty Games Inc
-Developed marketing materials for two of their largely well known franchise collaborations with the NFL and NBA for their Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit accounts: NFL Clash and NBA Clash.
-UI design, in-game material design, graphic design, character NPC design mockups, localization marketing and in-game currency design and retouching.
-Hundreds of carefully crafted cut-outs and photo color enhancements of professional NFL and NBA players used for in-game and marketing material.
Creative Lead (Freelance)
Craftbelly Delights Inc
Spearheaded the designs and illustrations of over 30+ characters for the fictional fantasy world of Crafterra. Some characters were used as mascots for the keto-friendly ice cream startup.
Senior 2D Artist
IGG
-Organized a massive variety of marketing materials for IGG’s library of mobile games: App icons, art retouching, social media profiles, banner ads, environmental ads, app carousels and story boarding for ad videos.
-Marketing materials for games worked on: Lords Mobile, Castle Clash, Deck Heroes, Mobile Royale, Clash of Lords, Casino Deluxe, and Sugar Shuffle.
Game Artist
JamCity (formerly TinyCo)
Fabricated game materials for Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff in an isometric style gameplay space for a variety of the game’s change of events such as holidays, collaborations, and themes (high fantasy and sci-fi): buildings, vehicles, stationary environmental props, and interactive environment props to thousands of monthly active users.
Associate Production Artist
Kabam Inc
-Designed marketing materials for Kabam’s extensive library of mobile games: App icons, art retouching, social media profiles, banner ads, app carousels and promotional physical products to reach out to 60 million users.
-Marketing materials for games worked on: Kingdoms of Camelot, Marvel Contest of Champions, Dragons of Atlantis, Heroes of Camelot, Underworld Empire, Star Wars: Uprising, Spirit Lords, The Hunger Games: Panem Rising, Fast & Furious Legacy, Creature Academy, Metal Skies, This Means War, Puzzle Trooper, and Moonrise.
Artist
Gaia Interactive
-Interactive Environment Game Artist, Character Illustrator, and Custom Avatar Designer for over 1,000+ unique forum users.
-Designed virtual products and custom interactive environment spaces for the world of GaiaOnline as well as a variety of intellectual properties and brands to market to GaiaOnline’s audience.
-Popular brands collaborated with: Skittles, Sour Patch Kids, Macy’s, Coca-Cola, Fanta, Adventure Time, Naruto, Kung Fu Panda, Christian Siriano.
Education
BFA - Animation, Visual Effects
Academy of Art University
-Studied foundations art
-Focus on 3D modeling and texturing for games
Awards
| 2013 | Bicycle Commuter of the Year , Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition |
Specialties
Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, Adobe Illustrator, Clip Studio Paint, Affinity Designer, Procreate, Figma, Maya, Marmoset
Skills
Visual Design, Illustration, Isometric Illustration, Marketing Art, Branding Development, Social Media Marketing, 3D low poly modeling, Graphic Design