Christie Shinn

Current

Concept Artist at Seven
Concept Artist at Red Alert 3: Southern Rising
Production Assistant at Ethereal Muse Studios Inc. (Sole Proprietorship)

Concept Artist and Graphic Designer at Workout On The Go
Graphic Designer at Olive Jane
Graphic Design at List Caddy

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Past

Album Concept Artist at Forever A Movement
Website Tutor at Gloster Biomedical
Concept Artist at Kast and Krew

Graphic Designer at One Lil' Snap
Character Concept at Workout On the Go
Character Concept Artist at ArcNovo, Inc.
Freelance Flash Designer at IMS Barter.com
Assistant at MPOGD/lvlupcommunications
Production Artist at Potential Energies
Production Artist at Mind Factory

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Education

ITT Technical Institute-Oxnard
University of California, Santa Barbara

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Industry

Computer Games

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Christie Shinn’s Summary

I currently am working freelance with a few projects at the moment, but would love to get a permanent, full-time or part time position in doing what I love.

Currently, I am working on Moddb with Seven-- a Half Life 2 and Red Alert 3: Southern Rising as a concept artist with both mods.

My continuing clients are with: Olive Jane with release paperwork and mailers as well as patterns for their women's clothing line- Retro Resort 2008 as well as assisting them with their website. I also work with List Caddy for graphic design for print packaging as well as original designs to be published ON their products. Currently, I am in the process in Workout On the Go's product design for a fitness show targeted for children in their concept and design department. I am also a Production Assistant with Ethereal Muse for their upcoming game, Encore.

I have done Character Concepts with ArcNovo, Inc. for their upcoming children's animation as well as designed Flash Ad banners for IMS Barter's ad campaign for Forbes.com. I have just completed SON's hip-hop album cover for Kingdom.

I am currently looking for something that will constantly challenge me and to grow bigger and better as an artist and as a person. I know I have the skills to implement it, but I hunger for the knowledge to acquire more. I do not mind if it is a long-term position or a freelance. Every bit helps.

Christie Shinn’s Specialties:

Production art: character concept, environment concept with Photoshop and Illustrator. 3D modeling using 3DS Max. I have also have experience in Flash animation and other forms of classical 2D animation. I have done texturing as well.

Oh yeah, for the admins in you, I also have expertise in Excel and the rest of Microsoft Office as well.

Fashion: Textile and pattern design, line and color swatch sheets, logo, and web graphics work and update.

Christie Shinn’s Experience

Concept Artist

Seven

(Computer Games industry)

March 2009 — Present (5 months)

Working with the fellow concept artist/co-leader and the other leader to release the art assets for landscape, creature, and weapon concept for their Half-Life mod: Seven:Episodes.
Concept Artist

Red Alert 3: Southern Rising

(Computer Games industry)

March 2009 — Present (5 months)

I am currently in production and concept art for character and creature concept for the Red Alert mod, advertised on MODDB.
Production Assistant
Ethereal Muse Studios Inc. (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Animation industry)

December 2008 — Present (8 months)

I assist with art assets in concepts for both characters and environments in pre-production. I did work as an Illustration Intern with creature and character "think tanks" where we brainstormed and drew environments and new characters in the game.

**The Xbox version of the game is due to be released later this month! Will update on status!
Concept Artist and Graphic Designer

Workout On The Go

(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

September 2008 — Present (11 months)

I'm currently working on a DVD promo cover for Workout On the Go. I also did Character Designs for proposal purposes.
Graphic Designer

Olive Jane

(Apparel & Fashion industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year)

Designed line sheets, color cards, cataloge pages for distribution, assisted with embroidery pattern design, website, print, and trade show graphics.
Graphic Design

List Caddy

(Consumer Goods industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year)

I create designs, clean up graphics for web, product, and packaging.
Album Concept Artist

Forever A Movement

(Music industry)

January 2009 — March 2009 (3 months)

Doing concept art for Son, a hip-hop artist. Check them out!
Website Tutor

Gloster Biomedical

(Biotechnology industry)

November 2008 — February 2009 (4 months)

Tutored client in Dreamweaver, Photoshop, HTML and CSS basics so that they could be self-sufficient in building and maintaining their website.
Concept Artist

Kast and Krew

(Entertainment industry)

October 2008 — December 2008 (3 months)

Working on a few concepts for film humor to put on neat things like t-shirts, mugs, mousepads, and possibly elephants.

Just kidding on the elephants.
Graphic Designer

One Lil' Snap

(Apparel & Fashion industry)

September 2008 — September 2008 (1 month)

Worked on website graphics and designed a logo for an online shop for One Lil' Snap.
Character Concept

Workout On the Go

(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

September 2008 — September 2008 (1 month)

Did characters for Workout On The Go's new fitness program.
Character Concept Artist

ArcNovo, Inc.

(Animation industry)

June 2008 — August 2008 (3 months)

I am currently working on Character Concept Design for an upcoming children's animation project.
Freelance Flash Designer

IMS Barter.com

(Internet industry)

June 2008 — August 2008 (3 months)

Worked on animated Flash ad banners for their upcoming Forbes.com campaign.
Assistant

MPOGD/lvlupcommunications

(Computer Games industry)

April 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 5 months)

I currently put together media packets for MPOGD.com and lvlupcommunications.com--both representatives for game teams and advertisers for games themselves. I also do the same for other companies that are contracted through MPOGD and lvlupcommunications--as well as press kits and other miscellaneous graphics as well for both the client and the home company.

I also assist in handling interviews, connecting with potential clients as a liason, proposals, and other forms of written communication.

http://www.mpogd.com
Production Artist

Potential Energies

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

August 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 1 month)

I did character concept art and environment concept art in order to set the feel and look of the game. I had to keep in mind that this was a game geared towards the younger crowd and more of an RPG feel.

I used Photoshop and Illustrator as well as a traditional background in design in order to create a feel that the character and environment fit the playful and strange setting of the story and characters themselves. Essentially, bring the game to life. I also counseled other artists in terms of technique and critique.

http://www.potential-energies.com
Production Artist

Mind Factory

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)

January 2006 — March 2007 (1 year 3 months)

- did character concept as well as environmental concept work to create the look and feel of each scene of the commercial. I had to do extensive research on the items themselves, considering they involved technology-based models. I had to go for a present-futuristic feel to the scene. Photoshop and Illustrator were used as well as traditional media (pencil, pen, etc.).

Using 3Ds Max, I also modeled environmental assets for city (garbage cans, gas stations, light poles, cars, etc.) to country (shrubs, trees, rocks, etc.) settings for the entire commercial in all scenes.

Christie Shinn’s Education

ITT Technical Institute-Oxnard

BS , Digital Entertainment and Game Design , 2004 — 2007
University of California, Santa Barbara

BS , Film Studies, Art Studio [Double Major] , 1994 — 2002

I have classical core art training as well as analytical art theory. I have experience with live drawing as well as gestures.

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Christie Shinn’s Interests:

Shooting at ranges, art theory and artists, random computer hardware stuff, video games, blogging, writing, drawing, cartoons, movies, technology, gadgets, internet, comics, traveling to see new things, and taking neat photos of little things that interest me.