EMAIL: yurimnkim@gmail.com
OBJECTIVE
Dedicated professional interested in working with a team of highly creative, hardworking individuals who focus on producing quality work. Aiming to provide my skills, experience, and personal drive to help maintain and expand the company’s goal for excellence.
EXPERIENCE
STORY / CHARACTER ARTIST, Taco Pizza Cat Games
2020 - 2023
• Create art assets ranging from story sequences, characters, UI elements, backgrounds, and props that are in keeping with the projects visual style
• Involved in creative process of initial concept to finalized asset
• Collaborate with game lead to maintain project quality while managing time constraints
• Keep organized catalogue of created art assets that can be easily referenced
• Familiar with product development including workflow, tools, character turnarounds, marketing materials, and graphic design
2D ILLUSTRATOR, Freelance
2015 - 2023
• Create character designs for individual clients, book illustrations, animated shorts, and video game assets
• Work with authors to develop fully rendered characters and background environments for children’s books
• Produce illustrations for single commissions as well as larger studio projects
• Storyboarded and animated character driven sequences for client
• Clearly communicate project details with clients through every step of the job
DESIGN INTERN, Media General FX
2014
• Create monitor graphics for local news stations along the east coast
• Capture map imagery and animations in the map building software VizTrio
• Design and animate a pre-production package which included an opening, stinger, looping background, lower third title, and monitor graphics
EDUCATION
STORYBOARD COURSE, CG Master Academy
2023
• Learned and practiced all aspects of storyboarding for animation which include beat boards, thumbnailing from a script, balancing a composition, scenes with multiple characters, camera movement, and utilizing Storyboard Pro
• Received direct critique and advice from professional industry level story artist
BFA ANIMATION, Virginia Commonwealth University
2011 - 2015
• Studied all aspects of animation fundamentals including timing, posing, weight, and performance
• Pursued different animation mediums such as traditional frame-by-frame, 3D character, and stop motion
SKILLS
• Highly proficient in illustrating in both Adobe Photoshop and Clip Studio
• Detailed understanding in animating and navigating within Storyboard Pro
• In-depth knowledge of how to utilize Blender to speed up scene layout
• Experienced in all aspects of pre-production process for 2D animation
• Ability to match a variety of different art styles depending on what is needed
• Proficient in various 3D software such as Maya, Mudbox, and Blender