Visual Development Artist at Made in Paradise
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Visual Development Artist at Made in Paradise
- Past
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- Comic Book Penciller at Arcana Comics
- Sketch Artist at Marvel Comics
- Sketch Card Artist at New Line Cinema
- Sketch Artist for Indiana Jones at Lucasfilm
- Production Assistant/Intern at Made in Paradise
- Graphic Designer at Go Comi
- Character and Environmental Designer at Blue Dream Studios
- Education
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- Laguna College of Art and Design
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Karen Krajenbrink’s Summary
Need dogs designed? I'm your artist. Need flying pigs? Sure. FIFTY FOOT ROBOTS ATTACKING MARS?! Sure. I'm currently an art monkey for Made in Paradise, doing whatever tasks are needed to be done. I specialize in story, visual development, and general insanity. I normally juggle three jobs at once because I'm a workaholic, but I can't see myself doing anything else but being a creative kook.
Karen Krajenbrink’s Specialties:
character design, storyboard, visual development, environmental design, painting, comic book penciller
Karen Krajenbrink’s Experience
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Visual Development Artist
Made in Paradise
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Animation industry)
June 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Responsible for being an art monkey and answering to my art directors: Carol Police and Karen Keller. Currently working on an undisclosed feature length animated project for Universal Animation Studios.
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Comic Book Penciller
Arcana Comics
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Animation industry)
April 2008 — May 2008 (2 months)
Penciller for Clockwork Girl #4 under Arcana Comics. Answered to Art Director Kevin Hanna and Company Owner Sean O'Reilly. When their current penciller left in the middle of the project, I was asked to take over, emulating his style for the rest of the book. One of the best and most fun projects I've worked on to date.
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Sketch Artist
Marvel Comics
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; MVL; Publishing industry)
January 2008 — April 2008 (4 months)
Responsible for drawing sketches onto trading cards to be randomly inserted into packs of cards. Assigned 200 cards.
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Sketch Card Artist
New Line Cinema
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; TWX; Entertainment industry)
November 2007 — January 2008 (3 months)
Working also in association with Topps Trading Cards. Responsible for drawing 206 unique drawings based off the Lord of the Rings Trilogy of movies produced by New Line Cinema.
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Sketch Artist for Indiana Jones
Lucasfilm
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Entertainment industry)
December 2007 — January 2008 (2 months)
Responsible for creating sketches of the likenesses of the Indiana Jones movie trilogy to be randomly inserted and distributed in Topps Trading Cards' Indiana Jones Heritage Card Set.
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Production Assistant/Intern
Made in Paradise
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Animation industry)
June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)
Responsible for assisting art directors with tasks such as feature character design, backgrounds, storyboarding. Also responsible for file management, collection of reference materials, scanning, graphic design, and construction of pre-visual development books of past clientèle.
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Graphic Designer
Go Comi
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Graphic Design industry)
July 2005 — July 2005 (1 month)
Responsible for the graphic design of main and subsequent pages for www.gocomi.com, a comic publishing company. Worked closely with art directors and html programmer to create a clean coherent style from page to page.
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Character and Environmental Designer
Blue Dream Studios
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Animation industry)
December 2003 — June 2005 (1 year 7 months)
Responsible for creating 100+ character designs and a variety of environmental sketches for the project, the Dreamland Chronicles. Worked closely with the art director and modeller to create visually pleasing characters in the same style for a 3D comic book.
Karen Krajenbrink’s Education
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Laguna College of Art and Design
bachelors, Animation, 2004 — 2007
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Karen Krajenbrink’s Interests:
storyboarding, character design, visual development, cartoons, animation, film, comedians, hiking, biking, photography, my cat
Karen Krajenbrink’s Honors:
Best in Best Overall for Character Design: The White Rabbit - Juried Show at the Laguna College of Art and Design
Karen Krajenbrink’s Contact Settings
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