APRIL 2024
WHERE'S YOUR CV?:
TL;DR:
- miles (any pronouns)
- based in london
- eligible to work in the united kingdom, the united states, russia
- fluent english, conversational spanish and russian
- 3+ years of experience at studios like firesprite games and story juice
SOFTWARE:
- the adobe suite, particularly photoshop, illustrator, after effects, and XD
- UX tools like figma, axure, and framer
- game engines like unreal 5 and unity
- 2D & 3D like procreate, maya, blender, zbrush, substance painter
- agile production systems like jira and trello
writing an about page is weird. my gut instinct is to tell you about the cool projects i've worked on or my years of experience or the small-time awards i've won, but i've got a cv and that feels kinda like sticking an unsubstantive shiny sticker on a product to tell you that someone somewhere you've never met has given it a vague stamp of approval.
here's what i would rather tell you:
i care about story telling and accessibility and kindness.
my biggest goal is to work on the kind of user interface that people bring up when they hear you're a ui artist -- the kind that people cosplay at conventions and write university dissertations analysing.
i use too many em-dashes.
at university i wrote a three thousand word essay on disco elysium's politics.
i know too much about espresso and tattoos and plants and piercings.
i helped kickstart the accessibility champions group on my last project and i was a member of firesprite's d&i group.
i want to write another three thousand word essay on why video games are a revolutionary medium that the industry has yet to realise the full potential of. above all, whether it's ui art or ux design, i always, always, always put the player first.
thank you for dropping by. srodyakin@protonmail.com
