KATE BURGESS

Berkeley CA

Burgess.kate1@gmail.com

-Concept Artist with 15 years experience in the entertainment industry.

-Highly creative and skilled environment and character designer. 

-Many years of experience with the feedback/iteration cycle and all accompanying vagaries. 

SOFTWARE AND SKILLS

-Digital painting pro, skilled at painstaking pencil rendering.

-Traditional skills like perspective, composition, lighting, character and environment design.

-Photoshop and Flash expert, with an intimate understanding of what 3D artists require.

-5 years light-touch leadership experience, with emphasis on art directing small teams and managing small groups or individual outsourcers. 

EXPERIENCE

-Principal Artist - Fogbank/ Storyscape 2017-2020- I did environment, color, and character design for a variety of games. I worked mostly on the original IP products Eternal City, Ageless, and Fairytale.

-Visual Development Artist/ Art Director - Arden's Wake - Penrose studios - 2017 I joined the team as the sole VisDev artist but took over as art director when the production designer left.  Designed all characters, sets, posters, and did the pre-production designs for Penrose's next unannounced project.  

-Principal Artist – KABAM 2014 – 2016-  Mostly I designed characters for really interesting unlaunched games, but I also worked on Star Wars: Uprising, the Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle earth, the Godfather, Kingdoms of Camelot, and a whole suite of other games.  I generally assist the art director by providing second opinions on everything from Character and environment design, stylistic direction, and snack quality.

-Creative director, - KABAM – Publishing Department, 2014 – I worked to improve creative and art direction on a variety of foreign games to improve suitability for the western market.  This included spreadsheets, copy editing, painting, and art direction.

-Creative Lead – 2 canned ios games - KABAM – 2012-2013 – I lead the creative side of two ios games to prototype phase, both of which were cancelled due to factors beyond our control. 

-Art Lead and Story Steward – KABAM, Dragons of Atlantis – 2010-2011  –Art lead of initial launch team, responsible for creative content and art during first year of game development.  Advisor for the mobile version.

Awards and nominations for Dragons of Atlantis

Nominee - GDC 2011 Best Visual Arts Award - GDC Online - August 2011

Nominee - GDC 2011 Best Social Network Game Award - GDC Online - August 2011

Silver Medal, Character Concept Art - Playillustration.com international Game Art Contest- September 2011

-Art Lead – Wonderhill suite of games – 2009 -2010

In my first role as a lead, I art directed several family friendly games for facebook.

THE BEFORETIME

2008 – Visual Development instructor -Academy of Art University

Storyboard Artist, National Film Board of Canada

2007- Prop Designer – Viva Pinata, TV series

Background Designer – Edgar and Ellen (TV Series)

Background Designer – Chaotic (TV Series)

2002-2006 - Layout Artist – Space Chimps (Feature Film)

Animator – Pucca World(TV series)

Animator – Family Values (TV series)

Animator – Mucha Lucha Seasons 1 and 2 (TV series)

Animator – Exhibit Design Firm

Artist – Electronic Arts MVP Baseball 2003 (Sports game)

INTERESTS – Hiking, Biking, Reading, Science. 

EDUCATION – Bachelor of Media Art, Animation Major, Emily Carr University 2002

                  - 3D Animation and Visual Effects, Vancouver Film School, 2005