Digital Magician Studios

Key Clients: Tiësto, Amazon Alexa, Popsockets, Dr. Squatch, Ralph Lauren, Perplexity Ai, Dr. Squatch

$5M in revenue for clients through organic and paid content, influencer campaigns, SEO, and paid ads marketing solutions across Instagram, Meta, Google, and TikTok.

Launched & Directed social media campaigns for Amazon Alexa, Ralph Lauren, Tiësto, PopSockets, and more. 
Managed teams, Creatives, & Influencers across dozens of campaigns.

Creative Strategist

Activision

GFX for Call of Duty: Mobile social media advertising

Produced over 300 thumb-stopping pieces of engaging content to introduce, tease, and inspire our community with news maps, gear, events and game modes. 

Provided valuable social media insight to help direct creative to maximum performance. Repeated record breaking organic social content performances surpassing millions of views in under a day.

Content Animator, Designer

Solve

Created GFX for over 100 crime solving episodes including interactive games, text animation, 3D renderings, and exploding heads.

Content Lead: VFX & GFX

Freelance VFX Editor

Digital Corps

Created videos and graphics for a wide range of internal and external clients both at Ball State and around the country.
Responsible for video production from on set interviews to post-production and other creative endeavors. Worked in various departments of production but specialize in Visual Effects and Motion Graphics. 

Spent the semester prior as a Video Apprentice training before being selected for a Specialist promotion.

Video Specialist / Motion Graphics 

Los York

Content/Editing Summer Intern

I'm the Head of Creative for Digital Magician Studios (DMS). A social media content marketing agency that specializes in Content Strategy & Content Creation for brands to build loyal communities and grow their businesses. I have a passion for helping brands create thumb-stopping content and grow online.

I've worked as a Content Strategist for over 6 years, a Content Creator for 10, and have a background in high end video editing, motion graphics, & visual effects (VFX). 

With +260 million organic views on Instagram & TikTok and $5 million in sales generated for our clients, I have proven experience in working with incredible brands like Amazon Alexa, Ferrari, Ralph Lauren, PopSockets, and more. I also have a background in digital marketing and content production for leading gaming companies like Activision and Snapchat, where I produced over 300 pieces of record breaking content for Call of Duty: Mobile and Solve. 

As an Adobe certified professional, I have expertise in video editing, graphic design, and animation, using tools like Premiere, Photoshop, and After Effects. I also have skills in content strategy, social media management, paid ads, and consulting. I am always learning and sharing my knowledge about marketing, business, mental health, and personal development on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and LinkedIn, where I have a combined following of over 170,000. 

My goal is to empower B2B, B2C, & DTC brands to connect with their audiences and grow their businesses through strategic and creative social media content. If you are interested in working with me or learning from me, you can view case studies on my website, email me, or follow me on social media. 

I would love to hear from you!

Denver McQuaid

Toft Designs and Concepts

President

Blind Squirrel Games

I spent 3 years + working with the wonderful people at Blind Squirrel. During that time I grew into a middle management role and helped build the QA department. Classified as a production testing outfit, we had to have high caliber testers and a team of Compliance specialists in order to meet project needs. I handled the interviewing and management of the teams, team assembly, departmental documentation, Employee reviews, career pathing and other duties.

Assistant Manager

Game Cafe Services (DBA NTTGame)

Managed and lead a project containing 170,000 lines of text.
(Established a localization process and organized systems and tools for the project.)
Worked with first translations and localized all game text.
Creative writing of game text (patching story holes) Web Content and editing.
Bug Reporting.
Forum moderation / community interaction
Event planning/creation
In-Game GM

Localization Lead, GM

Snail Games USA

-Game resource document creation.
-General Testing and GM command module testing.
-Assisting in Structuring the QA department.
-Hiring and training testers.
-Localization Testing and assisting Localization department.
-In-game player support/CS.
-Bot and Spam patrol/clean up.
-Localization of in-game text.

QA lead

Reflexive Entertainment

Level Designer - Learned their proprietary  2D map editor, built the entire 3rd act of Zax. 
I also helped fill in story line and created multiplayer games and rules as well as creating multiplayer maps.

Level Designer

Black ops Entertainment

I briefly worked as a production tester on The World is Not Enough.

Production Tester

I worked on many more titles than listed, but this outlines the titles I shipped with the positions I held:

Project lead on Tony Hawks Pro skater 1 
Project lead for Vigilante 8 2nd offense  for ps1
Production Tester for HeavyGear2 (created 2 maps for download) 
Production Tester for Soldier of fortune
Production Tester for Vampire

Tester, Senior Tester, Lead Tester, Production Tester

Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC

Tester on the team based tank game Tanarus

Tester

Interplay / VR Sports

Game Designer - VR Hockey  (never released)

Designer

Virgin Interactive Entertainment

SHIPPED TITLES :
Xcom2
WWE17 Switch
Trove Console Port
Xcom2 exp: War of the chosen
Sims 4 Concole Port
Bioshock: The Collection: Remaster
Kingdom: A Blood Pledge NTT Game
Age of Wushu Snail Games USA
Zax: Alien Hunter Reflexive Ent.
Blade (2000) Activision Inc.
Soldier of Fortune Activision, Inc.
Soldier of Fortune Gold Activision Inc.
Vampire: The Masquerade Redemption Activision Inc.
Heavy Gear II Activision Inc.
Tony Hawks Pro skater Activision Inc.
Space Invaders Activision Inc.
Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense Activision Inc.
Barrage Activision Inc.
Hexen II: Portal of Praevus Activision Publishing Inc.
Civilization 2 (ps1) Activision Inc.
Sin Activision Inc.
Interstate '76: Nitro Pack Activision Inc.
Interstate '76: Nitro Riders Activision Inc.
Interstate '82  Activision Inc.
Heavy Gear Activision Inc.
Heavy Gear 2 Activision Inc.
Zork: Grand Inquisitor Activision Inc.
Quake II Mission Pack: Ground Zero Activision Inc.
Quake II Mission Pack: The Reckoning Activision Inc.
NetStorm: Islands at War Activision Inc.
Tanarus Sony Interactive Studios America
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story Virgin Games Inc. 
Out of this World parts I and II Virgin Games Inc.
Links: The Challenge of Golf Virgin Games Inc.
Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate  Virgin Games Inc.
Iron Assault Virgin Games Inc.
Jungle Book Virgin Games Inc.
Lion King Virgin Games Inc.
Creature Shock Virgin Games Inc.
The 7th Guest Virgin Games Inc.
The 11th Hour Virgin Games Inc.
Lands of Lore Virgin Games Inc.
Conspiracy  Virgin Games Inc.
Beneath a Steel Sky Virgin Games Inc.
Dune (Sega gen.  Virgin Games Inc.
Sewer Shark Virgin Games Inc.
Terminator Vs. Robocop Virgin Games Inc.
Cool Spot Virgin Games Inc.
Cannon Fodder Virgin Games Inc.

                 

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