Full name
Xingwen Shi (Sisi)
Title
Illustrator / Concept Artist/ Visual Development Artist/ Graphic Designer
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Blurb
10 years of professional experience as an illustrator, visual development artist and graphic designer. Advanced skills in Photoshop and Illustrator.
Skills
Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Painter, CorelDraw, AutoCAD, Maya, After Effect, line Drawing, 3D modeling, post production, photography, visual Development
Experience
- Developed concepts and storyboards for directing celebrity shots with sketching and painting skills, mirroring different characteristic for Meta’s chat Agents.
- Worked alongside the project producer and the product manager designing and creating images in Meta’s chat themes and backgrounds.
- Coordinate with other artists to successfully design and create prolific images suitable for Meta’s chat Agent profile images.
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2D Artist/CONCEPT ARTIST
Studio Toroshi
Eureka, CA 2015-2022
- Transformed ideas into high-quality look development designs of characters, environments, props and finished illustrations to fulfill client requests.
- Used Photoshop to design and paint illustrations in a variety of styles.
- Generated prototypes to pitch to art departments for new video games, apps, websites, books and animations based on existing IP.
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Graphic Designer/ILLUSTRATOR
Plaza Printing
Creating graphics for business communications services.
Visual Development Artist / Post-Production Artist
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CONCEPT ARTIST
SHANGHAI MEDIA GROUP
Creating graphics and animation for Shanghai TV Channel and Dragon TV Channel.
- Worked alongside television directors, editors and producers to create unique designs to translate artistic vision into visual medium. Improved proficiency of illustration/ design Projects by 50% according to supervisor. Provided first-rate animation for television and cinematic.
- Collaborated with 3D department to paint textures.
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Contract Illustrator
Zhejiang Daily Press Group
Creating illustrations, caricatures and graphics for newspapers and magazines.
- Collaborated with editors to create high-quality hand-drawn images and digital illustrations to enhance publications and presentations.
- Created cartoon series for magazines and newspapers regularly for years.
Education
Awards
| 2010 | Most Outstanding Student , Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts |
| 2010 | Nomination Award, Best Creativity Award , Shanghai University Student TV Festival |
| 2007-2009 | First-Class Scholarship for 3 years in a row , Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts |
| 2004-2015 | The Best Reporter in Zhejiang Daily Press Group , Zhejiang Daily Press Group |
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