Who Is This Guy?

I'm a freelance illustrator, animator and designer available for hire. I'm currently developing a mobile game in my free time.

Recently, I've completed a storyboarding workshop conducted by storyboardguru.com's Jeff Errico. It was there where I honed my knowledge of sequential storytelling hands on.

I also graduated from of the Advanced Character Animation course from Animation Mentor, and attended Loyola Marymount University with a Graphic Design major and English minor.

During my 3 year tenure at Glu Mobile I learned general Unity engineering as part of their internal learning programs.

Additionally, I have extensive illustration and animation experience, most notably as an animation assistant with Treyarch games. It was there where I garnered knowledge of animation scripting in addition to using Motion Builder, and learning mo-cap direction at their Playa Del Rey capture studio.

Art influences and/or favorite artists: Moebius, Matt Wagner, Zoran Janetov, Ryoichi Ikegami, Katsuo Otomo, Howard Chaykin, Robert Williams, Carravagio, Rick Veitch, Bill Sinkeiwicz, Steve Rude, Eddie Biukevic, Frank Miller, Francis Bacon, Salvadore Dali, Jamie Hewlett, and Juan Gimenez.

Favorite writers (Comics and Novels): Alexandro Jodorosky, Matt Wagner, Mike Baron, Howard Chaykin, Don Delilo, Alan Moore, Thomas Pynchon, Neal Stephenson, Frank Miller, Richard Wright, Rick Veitch, Charles Bukowski, Eddie Campbell, Peter Milligan and Alan Martin.

Contact me at mel@hexallen.com