Karen Krajenbrink

Current

Artist at Meteor Games LLC
Character Designer at Blue Dream Studios
Visual Development Artist at Made in Paradise

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Past

Character Designer at The Walt Disney Company
Comic Book Penciller at Arcana Comics
Sketch Artist at Marvel Comics

Sketch Artist for Indiana Jones at Lucasfilm
Sketch Card Artist at New Line Cinema
Production Assistant/Intern at Made in Paradise
Graphic Designer at Go Comi
Character and Environmental Designer at Blue Dream Studios

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Education

Laguna College of Art and Design

Recommended

3 people have recommended Karen

Connections

71 connections

Industry

Animation

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Karen Krajenbrink’s Summary

While I didn't envision myself as a concept/character designer... here I am! I've found my storyboard training has really helped me set up layouts and shape my characters. Odd but true.

I'm currently an art monkey for Made in Paradise, doing whatever tasks are needed to be done for our projects where we specialize in pre-production for feature films. 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:

orthographics for 3D, character design, storyboard, visual development, environmental design, painting, comic book penciller

Karen Krajenbrink’s Experience

Artist

Meteor Games LLC

(Privately Held; Entertainment industry)

November 2009 — Present (1 month)

Art monkey extraordinaire.
Character Designer

Blue Dream Studios

(Animation industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Designed 70+ characters for use in the 3D comic: The Dreamland Chronicles. Responsible for creating designs of incidental and main characters. This is a continuation of the original position as I left on an academic hiatus.
Visual Development Artist

Made in Paradise

(Animation industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Responsible for being an art monkey and answering to my art directors: Carol Police and Karen Keller. Currently working on a second undisclosed feature length animated project for Universal Animation Studios.
Character Designer

The Walt Disney Company

(Public Company; DIS; Entertainment industry)

November 2008 — December 2008 (2 months)

Responsible for creating characters on incredibly tight deadlines from rough to finished with a plethora of accessories. Worked closely with art director Kevin Hanna to keep on the style of the project, and to clearly illustrate whatever assets were needed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.