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1633 CRUISER LANE, ALAMEDA, CA, USA 94501
(510)-813-8663
LEECAO@LIVE.CA
LEE-ART.COM

LEE CAO

Drawing is my best method of communication. I drive visual design with concept art and benchmark art assets.

Skills

Photoshop, Blender, Unity, Spine, Illustrator, Agile

Experience

Love to Sing Books

July 2023 - Present

Co-Founder, Illustrator

  • Created a series of bilingual children’s sound books (www.lovetosingbooks.com)

  • Launched on Kickstarter, raised $15,000 in 14 days

PopReach -- Vancouver, BC
Feb 2021 - June 2023

Lead Artist

Smurfs Magic Match is a fun-filled match-3 game with over 1M downloads.

LBC Studios -- Vancouver, BC
Nov 2018 - Feb 2021

Senior Artist

 

airG Inc --  Vancouver, BC

Senior Artist - Big Barn World (http://airgames.airg.com/bbw.html) Jan 2015 – June 2018

  • Managed outsourced artists, up to five at a time.

  • Mentor to three other artists.


Senior Artist - Kitty Snatch (http://kittysnatch.com/) Dec 2015 – June 2018

  • Concept art, illustration, animation for characters, backgrounds, and UI.

  • Used Spine and Unity to develop a character creation system.

  • Saw production through from pre-greenlight to post-launch.

  • Additional marketing collateral design for web and print.


 

Artist -- Big Barn World Dec 2011 – Dec 2014

  • Designer for characters, backgrounds, and UI.

  • Character animation in Spine, Flash, and traditional.

  • Web banner design

 

Quality Assurance Feb 2009 – Nov 2011

  • QA Prime -- Games Development Team

  • Bugzilla and MySQL for issue tracking.

  • Automation Development with Java and Selenium 2.0

 

Propaganda Games -- Vancouver, BC
Apr 2007 – Mar 2008 

Development Support  -- Turok, Xbox 360 and PS3

  • Ad-hoc testing. Test script creation.  Regression testing.

  • Perforce. DevTrack. DevTest.

  • Multiplayer test coordinator

Education

The Art Institute of Vancouver - Burnaby
Sept 2004 - June 2006

Game Art & Design - Diploma

Level designer & world artist, Chase the Chicken (student project)

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