Experience

• Art Director at LLC Mint Technologies

  Moscow, Russia

  June 2023 - Present

  Creating style guidelines, moodboards, project docs and narrative works.
  
  Managing 2D and 3D pipeline in casual games.
  
  Developing visual ideas, concepts, UI, promo art, polishing and overpainting final style of the project.
  
  Close work with producers, animators, game designers, and programmers.
  
  Working with Unity.

• Level Artist / Environment Artist at Level Up Labs

  Bryan, Texas

  February 2023 - October 2023

  Working on Defender's Quest 2: Mists of Ruin
  
  https://store.steampowered.com/app/252190/Defenders_Quest_2_Mists_of_Ruin/
  
  https://www.defendersquest2.com/
  
  Creating and polishing environment art (backgrounds, textures and props) based on concepts from the art department.
  
  Developing the composition and logic of filling levels based on schemes from the level designer.
  
  Creating levels in Tiled and integrating produced art into it.
  
  Optimization of maps in accordance with game situations and level design requirements.

• Lead of Art Department / Art Lead at Big Forge Games

  Dubai, Dubai Silicon Oasis, United Arab Emirates

  March 2022 - January 2023

  https://www.bigforgegames.com/
  
  Leading and building a team. Mentoring and managing.
  
  Creating concepts and developing visual ideas, polishing overpaintings, photobushing and feedbacks.
  
  Creating Style Guidelines, moodboards, Project Docs and narrative works.
  
  Managing 2D and 3D pipeline in casual and midcore games. Working with Unity and Unreal Engine.

• Head of Art department at MidHard Games

  Moscow, Russia

  June 2020 - August 2023

  https://midhard.com/
  
  Leading, managing, recruiting, interviewing and building team.
  
  Mentoring Artists and UI designers.
  
  Creating style guidelines, moodboards, project docs and narrative works.
  
  Managing 2D and 3D pipeline in hypercasual, casual and midcore games.
  
  Developing visual ideas and key concepts, UI, promo art, stickers, animations, polishing and overpainting final style of the project.
  
  Close work with producers, animators, game designers, programmers, narrative designers, and PR team.
  
  Working with Unity.

• Lead Artist at MidHard Games

  Moscow, Russia

  May 2019 - July 2020

  https://promo-games.com/
  
  https://promo-games.com/
  
  Recruiting and interviewing. Leading and building team. Mentoring Junior Artists and UI designers.
  
  Creating concepts, UI, web design, icons, objects, characters, environment, animations, promo art and developing visual ideas, style and team guidelines, project docs, delivering ideas, polishing.
  
  Close work with animators, game designers, programmers, narrative designers, and PR team.
  
  Working with Unity.

• 2D Artist at Freelance

  Ekaterinburg, Russia

  July 2012 - May 2019

  https://promo-games.com/
  
  Creating web and product design, characters, environment, hand crafted brooches.
  
  Working with private customers.