EMAIL: yurimnkim@gmail.com
OBJECTIVE
Aiming to provide my skills, experience, and personal drive for a team of highly creative, hardworking individuals, to collaborate and produce quality content
EXPERIENCE
2D ILLUSTRATOR, Freelance
2015 - 2017 // 2020 - Present
• Create character designs for individual clients, book illustrations, animated shorts, and video game assets
• Work with authors to develop fully rendered characters and background environments for children’s books
• Produce illustrations for single commissions as well as larger studio projects
• Storyboarded and animated character driven sequences for client
• Clearly communicate project details with clients through every step of the job
STORY / CHARACTER ARTIST, Taco Pizza Cat Games
2020 - 2023
• Create art assets ranging from story sequences, characters, UI elements, backgrounds, and props that are in keeping with the projects visual style
• Involved in creative process of initial concept to finalized asset
• Collaborate with game lead to maintain project quality while managing time constraints
• Keep organized catalogue of created art assets that can be easily referenced
• Familiar with product development including workflow, tools, character turnarounds, marketing materials, and graphic design
DESIGN INTERN, Media General FX
2014
• Create monitor graphics for local news stations along the east coast
• Capture map imagery and animations in the map building software VizTrio
• Design and animate a pre-production package which included an opening, stinger, looping background, lower third title, and monitor graphics
EDUCATION
STORYBOARD COURSE, CG Master Academy
2023
• Learned and practiced all aspects of storyboarding for animation which include beat boards, thumbnailing from a script, balancing a composition, scenes with multiple characters, camera movement, and utilizing Storyboard Pro
• Received direct critique and advice from professional industry level story artist
BFA ANIMATION, Virginia Commonwealth University
2011 - 2015
• Studied all aspects of animation fundamentals including timing, posing, weight, and performance
• Pursued different animation mediums such as traditional frame-by-frame, 3D character, and stop motion
SKILLS
• Highly proficient in boarding and animating through Storyboard Pro
• Expert knowledge in illustrating in both Photoshop and Clip Studio
• In-depth understanding of how to utilize Blender to speed up scene layout
• Experienced in all aspects of pre-production process for 2D animation
• Proficient in various 3D software such as Maya, Mudbox, and Blender
ACHIEVEMENTS
2025 STORY ARTIST FINALIST, Nickelodeon Artist Program