Experience

• Freelance Artist, Designer, Concept Artist, Sales at Freelance

  Vancouver, Canada

  January 2008 - Present

  • Performs freelance and commission work: artwork, designs, graphics and animation.
  
  • Demonstrates great interpersonal communication skills, along with consistency, reliability and a stellar work ethic. Works well with others on a team and is self driven when solo.
  
  • Strong comic arts, character design, and promotional art background; regularly takes on commissions to design event merchandise - Specializes in the following areas: Logo design, Character Art, Illustrations for Pins, Prints, Stickers, T-shirts among other apparel or promo Designs.
  
  • Extensive experience in character design and illustration, able to quickly conceptualize & draft scenes as well as design unique, quirky characters, silhouettes & model sheets from scratch and on the fly.
  
  • Extensive experience using industry standard digital art & animation programs (both 2D & 3D) such as the Adobe CC Suite: Photoshop, Animate, InDesign, Illustrator. As well as Toon Boom and Storyboard Pro. Blender and some Maya. - Uses Adobe Animate/Flash on an especially constant basis.
  
  • Experience Modelling characters, props and scenes in 3D, using Blender. Optimized for animated use in Unity games and for use with 3d Printing.
  
  • Experience Designing/Modelling characters & props for 2D cut out animation, as well as rigging characters for use in both Animate and Toonboom Harmony.
  
  • Experience creating quick thumbnails for comics, storyboards for animation.
  
  • Passionate about traditional mediums & experienced in frame by frame techniques as well.

• Character Design + Illustration. at Faerie Fire, a 5e supplemental. – Springen Folk - Astrolago Press

  Vancouver, Canada

  March 2018 - March 2018

  Faerie Fire, a 5e supplemental: "A stylish, glamorous fey bestiary and setting inspired by the 80s and 90s, for use with 5e tabletop campaigns."
  
  - Sams artistic contribution was a Kickstarter Stretch Goal at $48,000!
  
  - Designed a Grasshopper Folk, known as the "Springenfolk"
  
  - Provided character concept art, as well as the final illustration for the printed book.

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  January 2021 - January 2021

  https://www.linkedin.com/in/samkalensky/