The WhyKingz 

Achievements:

✅ Developed seven effective tools for optimizing the work of art-department and related departments. 

✅ Wrote documentation from zero for the art department: on stylistics, work standards, file organization, and on certain typical tasks. To increase the autonomy of employees.

✅ Developed employees in the team to the level of independent performance of typical tasks.

✅ Conducted a statistical study of art performance and increased the CTOR conversion in email newsletters by 6% compared to the previous one. Monitored the implementation by a team the 9 criteria that positively affect the conversion.

Key Responsibilities:

- Creation of 2D graphics in Photoshop. 3D graphics in Blender. Animations in AfterEffects.
- Performance management of the team of 7 artists. Making sure they meet deadlines, styles, quality standards. Using Jira, Slack, Confluence.
- Developmet-focused feedback. By discussing strengths, areas of development. And setting personal development plans for employees.
- Critical feedback. By discussing with the employee the facts that indicate responsibility. Agreeing on a plan for correcting issues and preventing future violations.
- Keeping order and organizing the cloud file system.
- Cooperation with other departments involved in the development.

Lead Artist

Achievements:

✅ Did analisis and improved the style of one of the projects. Got approved by CEO. Created style guide for a team.

✅ Created animated e-mail illustrations instead of static images. Was the first who used 3d character animation for email illustrations. with the same deadlines as for static images.

✅ Conducted a study based on the statistics of our email marketing. Manually assessed 30 features of each of the 200+ illustrations in our emails. Found 9 key factors correlated with conversion.

Key Responsibilities:

- Creation of 2D graphics in Photoshop in 5 different styles.
- Creation of multi-figure dynamic promotional illustrations for the main web pages of projects.
- Creation of entertaining illustrations for E-mail marketing.
- Creation of 3D graphics in Blender and MagicaVoxel.
- Creating 2D Animations in AfterEffects.And 3D animations in Blender.
- Creation of Collages from existing assets.
- Creation of packages of resizes of existing illustrations for different needs. Using Photoshop automation tools and batch processing.

2D/3D Artist

Here I led the development of art for a creative marketing campaign - a mobile game "The Chick Game" to promote buying APF's eggs in Latvia's grocery stores. 

I was responsible for 2d art branding, concepts, logo design, website assets design, character design, NFT-like skin system for 2d characters,  and Game UI graphics. 

Consulted, offered optimal solutions to art problems, hired suitable art performers, and reduced risks.

Freelance Art Director

FortySeven Software Professionals

✅  In less than a month, I assembled an art team of 12 permanent freelancers, which allowed the client not to delay the development of the game and receive graphics in large volumes with the quality supervised by me.

✅ My team created 114 mid-core characters and spell illustrations. For fantasy CCG. For terms 2-3 times faster than allocated in similar projects. And, accordingly, it is more effective for the project budget.

✅ Developed a pipeline based on the narrow specialization of each of the involved artists. This is how we managed to get synergy and high final quality without hiring more experienced and expensive middle+ level artists. Which also saved the client's budget.

✅ The company was satisfied and has invited to work with an important external client. To develop art for a mobile casual game as part of a marketing campaign for the largest egg producer in the Baltic States. There I also led the development of art, consulted, offered optimal solutions to art problems, selected performers and reduced risks.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Determining the needs and expectations of the client during Google Meet calls. The direction and consultation of every involved person, taking this information into account.
- Consulting and suggesting options for solving art problems.
- Finding, selecting and hiring freelancers who are suitable for tasks and budget.
- Formed and tracked tasks according to the Agile principle (Kanban boards in Trello) and in GoogleSheets.
- Monitoring the execution of tasks on time and with consistent production quality of the art.
- Ensuring consistent style across artists by writing guides in GoogleDocs and by recording video demos (OBS).
- Resolving and preventing dissatisfaction and conflicts through nonviolent communication and creating a trusting atmosphere in the team.
-To foresee technical limitations and took into account the mechanics of the game when giving feedback.
-Preparing and optimizing files for use by developers in Unity.

Art Outsource Manager

Fiverr

Achievements:

✅ 479+ completed orders. 0 negative reviews. 5 stars rating.

✅ Produced an animated music video with a duration of 3.5 minutes. Consisting of 40 animated scenes. In Photoshop + After Effects.

✅ Colored 600+ pages of Sci-fi action comics. 3-5 frames per page.

✅ Illustrated and prepared for printing a 100-page fantasy DnD book.

Responsibilities:

- Drawing illustrations using Photoshop. For book covers and music albums.
- Lineart rendering as a comic colorist in SAI and Photoshop. Convey mood and atmosphere through color and lighting.
- Creating animations in After Effects.
- Advanced photo manipulation in Photoshop. Photobash, realistic addition of objects to a photo, change of objects.

Freelance Digital Artist

Watch This!

I am going to massively grow my brand as an Artist on LinkedIn and then on all other platforms. To go from invisible to unignorable. What? 

Why I am so confident? 

in July I've spent 2 salaries on Founder OS Program where I met my mentor Matt Gray - a content marketing genius, one of the best in the world in this area. 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattgray1/
He teaches me everything he condensed from his 14+ years of building $5M+/year content-fueled brands.

I already have a clear strategy and amazing results applying his knowledge.

And I am going to take everything I learned from Matt Gray on his program and during mentorship and adapt it specifically to the artists' world. So Artists could build art-fueled monetized brands using proven step-by-step systems.

That's what I am sharing in my posts here on LinkedIn and in my weekly newsletter.

My track record consists of:

• 479+ FREELANCE ORDERS
• 5 YEARS AS CORPORATE
• HIGH-CONVERTING ART 
• EFFECTIVE WORKFLOWS
• OWN OUTSOURCE TEAM
• 17 YEARS IN ARTS

I've extracted the best of both Art and Content Business worlds to finally provide you with a roadmap of how to build your own projects and brand as an Artist.

I believe in our age people who can create visual content (artists) should be rich. And I have a vision of how to make it happen.

Follow and Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to dive deeper into it:
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If you'd like to connect or ask something - my DM's are open too.

LinkedIn: Who else relates in their #JobSearch?

You acquire relevant job skills, but when you start applying?

They say you should have started working since before WiFi existed 😂

Very frustrating.

So how do you find employers truly hiring for entry-level roles?
💡Go to job boards and look for roles; let’s use LinkedIn jobs as an example
💡Search "University Grad" + industry you’re interested in rather than doing the entry-level filters
💡Search your years of experience + industry you’re interested in (Example: No experience + sales)

Now you’ll find TRUE entry-level roles (And if you need tools to help your job search: https://bit.ly/45hHZ5G)

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Ok, so please don't tell anyone, but I came across a time machine the other day, and I might have put the space-time continuum at risk by bringing you this material, but it's too cool not to share..

I visited this world-building collective in the future, where artists and storytellers built worlds for their audience or just for fun. And I managed to sneak out this low-resolution recording. It's quite noisy and no match for the real experience which was in full, immersive 360 VR.

The crazy thing (outside of the time machine and all that) was that they were literally able to conjure objects out of thin air, using gestures with their hands combined with futuristic tools that allowed them to manipulate digital and AI-generated matter at free will.

#ai #art

There is such a particular joy in sharing your art with others.

#Animation #Meme #Entertainment

It's been 2,718 days since I left a 15 year career in #videogames behind forever to live in a beach house by the sea in the middle of nowhere to paint and write. And each day is better than the last. 

Since then, I've painted hundreds of paintings and published dozens of books, and my #writing and #art have earned over $1,000,000 on #Kickstarter. If I had believed in myself earlier, and had taken that leap earlier, I would have been happier, far sooner. 

Every day is spending time with my children and wife, painting and writing, walking the beach and nothing else besides. No emails. No meetings. No Scrum or Jira. No endless games of intellectual capture-the-flag in a bid to outmaneuver the money people to make a viable product. 

I just make what I love.

If you are an artist working for a large corporation, please know it is their job to take your ideas, profit from them, and cut you out when you demand your fair share. That's why the company is THERE. 

The only real path to success as an artist is self-made. Love what you make. Own your work. Believe in what you do. Know that success is never guaranteed, but even if you fail, you will have the joy of having worked on something you love instead of selling your gift piecemeal to be exploited.

And please know, if I can do this, you can too. 

I'm a dumbass.

Art Director who helps to find art clients and job | also looking for INTJ - dm me

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#PortfolioDay Here is my Hearthstone art, thank you for following.
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#Hearthstone #Blizzard

Story related to hidden job market from Roisin O'Neill
Hidden job market means 80% of all existing jobs are never publicly posted. 

(by US labour statistics) 

By building online presence you can access x5 more job opportunities as an artist. And plus to that - freelance market. 

Please just let it sink in. 

More in comments. 

Priority line to art job exists.

While It takes 1-2 weeks to prepare official job posting. Manager immediately asks Team of Artists if they know someone suitable.

Be the suitable artist they saw on socials.
Be the first in line.

To be referred and hired for an Art Job - people must know what you are great for. Obvious for you? It's not always obvious to them. ⬇️

And seeing your artwork can be not enough. 
Because the same portfolio piece can be evaluated as strong or weak - depending on what task you attempted to solve. 

And people don’t know what exactly you want to solve. 

Unless you tell them.
So tell them.
Give them the key. 

The key to appreciation of your portfolio and skills.

To tell what jobs you are great for...
Write an introduction title line that includes specific things you work with.
Or things you aim to work with. From tasks to genre and style of projects.

But to tell what jobs you are great for you need to understand it yourself first.

To help you with short Intro creation I developed an assessment quiz.
It takes 15 minutes and gives you a perfect introduction title at the end.
Please test and give me your feedback in the comments.

Free test: https://lnkd.in/dvkA3YjA

Reshare to save it for later. And feel free to ask questions in the comments - I'll help.

🧨 For everyone screaming about AI and Industry Layoffs being the only reasons they don't get hired in the industry, I have bad news for You…

Yes, AI and Layoffs suck, but there is The Truth:

🚫 Most of you would have not gotten hired without AI/Industry Layoffs either...

You want to know why?

❌ Your portfolio shows you absolutely don't understand what is required from you in production...

Here is what I see every single day in the portfolios of people blaming AI, Layoffs, and whatever event outside of their control as the sole reason for their struggles…

- Keyframe only portfolios
- Kitbashing the main elements
- Lack of Fundamentals
- No design skills, only shapes
- No reference usage
- Last of us 2 fan Art
- Your portfolio looks like a collection of Gumroad tutorials
- Student work scattered all over the place
- No iteration
- ...etc

Blame whatever you want to blame, think as collectively and abstract as you want about big "problems", all the elements listed above are IN YOUR CONTROL and MUST be fixed if you want to have a chance at getting hired.

If you don't do it, throwing a tantrum online about you not finding a job will just add salt to your injury.

You want to fix these issues, level up and finally craft a portfolio that matches Industry's expectations?

👉 Go watch this video, it's totally free, no email required.
https://lnkd.in/d27ebEEb

Hidden Job Market: exists.
Artists: "I've been applying since 30.000 b.c. and still no answer"

According to a report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately 70% of job openings are never advertised.

Add freelance market to this.

Access up to x5 bigger pool of opportunities by being known online.

Sources:
https://lnkd.in/d_z8APAh

To start getting seen, referred, and hired as an Artist.
4 Steps from dead LinkedIn page to grow your reputation online. 

To help you with Step 1 I developed questionaire.

It takes 15 minutes and gives you perfect introduction title in the end.
Please test and give me your feedback in the comments.

https://lnkd.in/dvkA3YjA

Feel free to ask questions I'll help you. 

It must be such a meditative thing to draw like that 😯... 
And a lot of creative control is still there. 

3D artist exploring new frontiers of storytelling. VR, AI, rapid prototyping using state of the art tools.

As a photobashing tool this is insane..

Krea AI running as an overlay over my Photoshop canvas as I'm painting. I'm using a tool called Windowtop for that.

#art #ai

Stop lying to yourself. Artists suffer when no one cares about their art.

The purpose of art is to share your vision.
Every great artist had a vision they wanted to share.
Sharing a vision is influence.

Every artist wants to become influential.

Back then no one would believe this is not a joke feature.

Everything started with someone deciding "ok, let's say it's possible, how? "

And thanks to that initial faith we have "impossible" now. 

Let's be less sceptical and more curious. 

AI | Tech | Marketing | +8 Million Followers and +1 Billion Views 👉 I will help you scale your brand and community 🏆📈

Adobe just introduced Generative AI for Premiere Pro.
Video editing will change forever! 

Features:

Generative Extend: Lets you seamlessly add frames to your clips, making them longer without affecting quality.

Object Addition: Allows you to insert new elements into your footage using just text prompts.

Object Removal: Makes removing unwanted objects from your videos a breeze. 

Text-Based Editing: Quickly create rough cuts by highlighting text and automatically adding clips to your timeline.

AI Audio Category Tagging: Automatically identifies audio types (music, dialogue, etc.) and adds relevant tools for easy editing.

Speech to Text: Automatically generates accurate transcripts in multiple languages, distinguishes speakers, and creates captions matching video speech patterns.

Enhance Speech: Removes background noise and improves dialogue quality for a professional sound.

Scene Edit Detection: Automatically detects scene changes, saving you time when splitting longer videos.

Auto Color: Applies basic color corrections (exposure, contrast, white balance) with just a few clicks.

Morph Cut: Creates smooth transitions between clips using face tracking and optical flow.

Color Match: Instantly matches colors between different video clips for a unified look.

Remix: Automatically retimes music to match the pace of your video.

Auto Ducking: Lowers background audio during dialogue and raises it back up when speaking stops.

Auto Reframe: Automatically adjusts the focal point when changing aspect ratios (e.g., from wide to vertical).

This takes video editing to a whole new level.

Imagine how easy it's going to be to edit videos in the future with these powerful AI tools at your fingertips!

Follow Endrit Restelica to stay up to date with AI.

#ai #tech #aitools

The pain of figuring out who your target niche is, what they need and keeping up with them... 😩😂

With illustration hits much deeper. 

Please notice how big amount of information and meaning you read from those simple slides. Via visuals. 

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These eye-opening visuals will transform the way you "think'. Visualisation adds value to everything.

Look at things not as they are but as they can be. 

On that note: A big thinker always visualises what can be done in the future. He isn't stuck with the present.

Focus on the big game!

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Visuals that will TRANSFORM your life

Are you an Artist with a passion for storytelling? So was Walt Disney...

Everything started with a passion for storytelling and entertainment.
Mission to bring joy to families via innovation.

Here is what The Walt Disney Company owns now:

Someone skinny... with round glasses, green eyes, black hair and... ⚡️-shaped scar on the forehead.

It's an unbreakable character design. 

You can draw it in any style or configuration and it will stay iconic.

Sometimes you can design characters using words only. 
Words paint an image in our imagination. 
It's all about a set of symbols.

I would say Harry Potter is a lot about unique aesthetics.

J.K. Rowling is not just a writer but also has an artistic vision that inspired millions of people around the world and created a new aesthetic.
The seven-volume series sold over 600 million copies. 

She was the first billionaire author solely through writing!

I personally don't think the story is groundbreaking. But the aesthetics of the world is. I think her aesthetic vision is a big part of her success.
She is almost like a remarkable art director who created a new style. 

Artists, please understand how much power you have through aesthetics.

Hello, artists. How many years have you spend on education and training to now struggle to find a job? 

My answer in comments. 

The Art Of Focus is available now on Amazon. Building the future of the creator economy with Kortex.

If you can spend 4 years getting a degree to do something you don’t care about you can spend 1 year reeducating yourself to build your own thing. Stop quitting after 2 weeks.

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