ETHAN KARNOPP

CONCEPT ARTIST/ILLUSTRATOR

ekarnopp@Gmail.com

(920) 716 - 4021

www.GreatBrush.com

Profile

A 2D artist with ambitions of aiding visualization of virtual worlds in preproduction.

Skills

Pictorial Understanding

Years of studying from life, professionals, and masters present a core understanding of fundamental aspects of design.

Ideation Communication

Concentrating on communication and collaboration with both peers and superiors to ensure the initial vision stated in a brief is achieved throughout the design process.

Perseverant Drive

Provided by years of strive spawns the vehement desire to take even the most mundane subject matter and crafting something of visual interest from that from start to finish.

Technical

  • Adobe Photoshop (proficient)
  • Google SketchUp (proficient)
  • Traditional Drawing (proficient)
  • Corel Painter (experienced)
  • Pixologic Zbrush (experienced)
  • Adobe Flash (experienced)
  • Orthographic Illustration
  • Isometric Illustration
  • Linear Layouts

Experience

Lukewarm Media

Concept Artist

2009

As a part of the concept team, objectives were to create mood paintings for visual reference for modelers with direction under the game designer and lead artist for the upcoming DINO title.

Mega Motorworks

Auto Detailer

2008

When managing the inventory of used cars, the main concern was in the refurbishing of heavily-used cars to present them for resale using various cleaning chemicals and techniques to restore the aesthetics of a car back to appear new.

Arbys

Crew Trainer

2007-2008

Duties include setting up the store every day but Sunday for lunch-hour rush and training new employees in multiple positions as well as maintaining multiple positions personally throughout the day.

Fazolis

Service Leader

2006-2007

Directly communicated with customers cashiering from the moment they arrived until they left the store in order to ensure customer satisfaction.

Ethan Karnopp — www.GreatBrush.com — ekarnopp@gmail.com — (920) - 716 - 4021