Art Director based in Lisbon with 8 years of professional experience and 10 years of official education in visual arts.

My focus area for the past few years has been:

• Marketing art (email marketing art, 3d, 2d, animation),
• Managing outsource teams,
• Mentoring junior artists.

Contacts

✉️ E-mail: [email protected]

🔷 Telegram: https://t.me/Olen1ch

🔗 Portfolio website: https://olenich.carrd.co/

Professional experience

Art Director, Fortyseven47

(January 2022- Present)

Achievements:

✅ 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 character 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 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.

Additional Responsibilities:

• To foresaw technical limitations and took into account the mechanics of the game when giving feedback.