Visual Development Artist
rachelfritzw@gmail.com rachelfritzw.artstation.com insta: rachelfritzw_art
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Skills
Background Design
Background Painting
Prop Design
Character Design
Color Styling
Concept Art
Digital Painting + Sketching
Traditional Painting + Sketching
Photo Editing
3D Modeling
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Corel Painter
Blender 3D
Autodesk Maya
Zbrush
Unity
Unreal Engine
Professional Experience
Titmouse, Los Angeles CA 06/2022 - 09/2022
Color Script Artist (Scavenger's Reign)
Established colors and lighting in key scenes for reference in BG Paint.
Titmouse, Los Angeles CA 02/2022 - 09/2022
Background Painter (Scavenger's Reign)
Painted rough and clean backgrounds, giving variations on color and lighting. Worked with color keys as well as independently establishing scene colors and lighting.
Titmouse, Los Angeles CA 06/2020 - 03/2021
Background Designer & 3D Specialist (Chicago Party Aunt)
Established key locations with rough and clean background designs, built 3D models for storyboard and layout use, helped to develop 3D to 2D pipeline for production
Titmouse, Los Angeles CA 01/2021 - 02/2022
Background Painter (Pantheon)
Painted rough and clean backgrounds, giving variations on color and lighting. Worked with color keys as well as independently establishing scene colors and lighting.
Nickelodeon, Burbank CA 05/2020 - 06/2020
Freelance Visual Development Artist (Middlemost Post)
Deva Studios, Santa Monica CA 04/2020 - 06/2020
Freelance Illustrator (Jungle Cruise)
Titmouse Inc, Los Angeles CA 03/2020 - 06/2020
Background Painter (Arlo the Alligator Boy)
Painting key backgrounds, adjusting visual development pieces, and interpreting color scripts
Titmouse Inc, Los Angeles CA 01/2020 - 03/2020
Background Designer (Ghosting)
Assisted in early development, designed all key backgrounds, cleaned final layouts, assisted in directing clean up artists on style execution
Bento Box Entertainment, Burbank CA 02/2019 - 12/2019
Background Designer (Central Park)
Designing background sets to establish the key locations and overall look of the show,
designing rough layouts and finished clean backgrounds
ShadowMachine, Los Angeles CA 01/2019 - 02/2019
Background Designer (Human Discoveries)
Designed rough background layouts and finished clean background design line work
Titmouse Inc, Los Angeles CA, 01/2018 - 04/2018
Production Art Intern (Tigtone)
Assisted in motion capture record, motion capture tracking, put together art packets, assembled asset kits for artist
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA 01/2016 - 04/2019
Illustration and Entertainment Design
Education
Palomar College, San Marcos, CA . 01/2013 - 04/2015
Associate of Arts Degree: Illustration
Salt water fishing
Hiking and backpacking
Reading Fantasy romance novels
Videogames (cozy)
Nurturing my lizard (Smaug - bearded dragon)
Interests