Christy Sawyer - Game Artist - NY, NY

Education
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Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 2001
BFA, Major: Art w/specialization in Electronic Time Based Media & equivalent to a minor in Art History

Computer Skills
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Mac & PC experience - Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe Illustrator CS5, Adobe Image Ready, Art Rage 2, Painter, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Office, Tortoise SVN, PuTTY, Pageant, a variety of Nintendo's Nitro Tools and proprietary software for NDS art/level creation/art optimization, & basic HTML. Familiarity with Flash CS5, Director, Premiere, InDesign, Quark Xpress, Alice, & Maya.

Work Experience
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Powerhead Games - Lead Artist, New York, NY
April 2005- present
-Overseeing general art direction within licensor & publisher guidelines & expectations
-Creation of 2-D art (original illustration & from source art)
-Graphics optimization for Game Boy Advance & Nintendo DS
-Menu creation w/use of Powerhead Games' Menu Tool
-Concept art for proposals & preproducton
-Level design for Winx Club QftC: GBA
-Light print design

Published titles:
-Trollz: Hair Affair (GBA) (Oct 2005 - published by Ubisoft)
-Winx Club: Quest for the Codex (GBA) (Nov 2006 - published by Konami)
-Winx Club: Quest for the Codex (DS) (Nov 2006 - published by Konami)
-Catz (DS) (Nov 2006 - published by Ubisoft)
-Petz: Catz 2 (DS) (Nov 2007 - published by Ubisoft)
-Winx Club: Mission Enchantix (DS) (Nov 2008 - published by Konami)
-Winx Club: Your Magic Universe (DS) (Oct 2009 - published by Konami)
-Glow Artisan (DSi) (Dec 2009 - published via DSiWare by Powerhead Games)
-Glow Artisan (Windows Phone 7) (TBA)

Self Employed - freelance artist, New York, NY
November 2002-April 2005
- Design & creation of webpages
- Web graphics creation & editing
- Original illustration
- Logo design

Croog Inc - 2D & 3D artist, New York, NY
May 2003- July 2004
-Maya modeling, texturing, & animation
-Inkworks texturing
-Character sketches, environment sketches
-Assorted 2-D drawing
-ToonBoom Studio coloring
-Print & layout design for promo books & magazines
-Website design

GURL.com & Seventeen.com, design internship, New York, NY
June 2002 - September 2002
- Design & creation of page layouts for gURL.com
- Web graphics creation & editing
- Photo retouching
- Photo manipulation w/illustration

Bantu Corp, design internship, Washington D.C.
June 1999 - October 1999
- Produced web graphics for corporate website
- Designed web interfaces for Bantu Instant Messenger
- Created graphics & icons for Bantu Instant Messenger & cobrands

References upon request.