Summary
Promotional & marketing art, matte paintings, illustrations, and concepts for such games as Armored Warfare, Warface, Skyforge, Archeage, Dragon Nest and others.
CG LAB - my online school offering professional 2D&3D courses for game dev with mentorship from industry experts: digital painting and character illustration, game graphics, UI, matte painting, photobashing, 3D, human anatomy.
Founded in 2018, language: Russian.
https://cglab.pro/
https://www.artstation.com/cglab
Skills
Software proficiency
Experience
- CEO at CG LAB SchoolMoscowJanuary 2018 - Present
I am the founder of the online digital painting school CG LAB. https://cglab.pro/
There are a lot of courses, and I am the author and teacher at "Environment Concept Art, Matte Painting and 3D for 2D" and "Digital Painting: Basics".
In this first course, I teach students how to draw landscape sketches, apply tone, light, color, and how to use matte painting and 3D packages in their workflow. They can also learn how to draw simple objects from zero to hero in Photoshop in the second course.
You can check my students' results from these courses here: https://www.artstation.com/linasidorova/collections/749186 - Art Teacher at Scream SchoolMoscow, RussiaOctober 2014 - Present
I teach students on my personal offline course "Matte Painting" how to make landscape sketches, apply tone, light, color, and how to use Matte Painting in their workflow.
- Senior 2D Artist at Mail.Ru GroupMoscow, RussiaNovember 2011 - July 2015
I worked at Mail.Ru Group HQ in Games Marketing Department and was responsible for the creation of cover art, promotional & marketing art, matte paintings, illustrations, and concepts for such games as:
Armored Warfare (Obsidian & Mail.Ru, promo art)
Warface (Crytek & Mail.Ru, key art, promo art)
World of Speed (Slightly Mad Studios & Mail.Ru, key art, promo art)
Perfect World (Perfect World Entertainment & Mail.Ru, marketing art, matte painting for TV advertisement)
Skyforge (Obsidian & Mail.Ru, promo art)
Archeage (XL Games & Mail.Ru, promo art)
Strife (S2 Games & Mail.Ru, promo art)
Allods Online (Mail.Ru, promo art)
Dragon Nest (Eyedenity Games & Mail.Ru, promo art)
Juggernaut (Mail.Ru, promo art)
- Senior 2D Artist at DrimmiMoscow, RussiaJune 2011 - November 2011
I was responsible for in-game art (environments, characters, UI), promo art and art quality control during my work on "Gone Fishing" game.
- 2D Artist at PlayFlockMoscow, RussiaAugust 2010 - January 2011
I produced a lot of in-game art for different browser/social games.
- Concept Artist at Digital Worlds J.S.C.Moscow, RussiaApril 2010 - June 2010
I created some concepts and UI art for Alvegia Online MMO.
- Freelance Artist at Trading Card Game BerserkMoscow, RussiaJune 2009 - January 2010