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2021-Present
Instructor @ CG Master Academy
- Create Curriculum and teaching Material
- Create promotional video
- Teach a course called “Mobile Game Art 1: Building & Props” to students all over the
world with different backgrounds
- Do hands-on demos and record feedback for students
2016- 2021
Art Tutor + Mentor
- Tutor and teach a variety of art subjects such as painting, sketching, drawing, anime,
comic drawing to various students
- Helping with school entrance portfolio both for art high school and colleges
- Successfully mentor a student to build up product design skills, create a product design
portfolio, and get admitted into Art Center College of Design Industrial design track
2021- 2024
Art Director @ Jam City (formerly SGN)
Bubble Shooter: Panda Pop! (iOS, Android, Amazon, Facebook, PC game)
- Lead art development for Panda Pop, ensuring high-quality content, features, VFX,
animation, and UI across platforms.
- Create and update a centralized Art Style Guide to maintain consistency in style, theme,
and branding.
- Conduct performance reviews, set goals, and guide the art team in achieving
departmental and divisional objectives.
- Collaborate with the Game Director and other leads to enhance content architecture,
features, and thematic updates while working with stakeholders on impactful features
and reskinning.
- Monitor art expenditure, control budgets, ensure quality, and report progress and
strategic goals to the divisional art director.
Cookie Jam (iOS, Android, Amazon, Facebook, PC game)
- Set and maintain visual art direction for Cookie Jam, including map art style guide, for
various platforms.
- Provide comprehensive art feedback to ensure consistency and high quality for assets
like event illustrations, UI, characters, and social media posts.
- Manage, schedule, and assign tasks to both internal and external artists, ensuring
deadlines are met.
- Motivate and mentor the art team to foster a positive, professional, and collaborative
work environment.
- Review game builds for accurate art representation and resolve visual issues.
- Create concept and production art assets to inspire and guide the team.
- Collaborate with Division Art Director, Production, Product Management, Tech Art,
Marketing, and Engineering to address visual needs and maintain game quality.
- Polish art submissions for style consistency and quality, and implement Unity art assets
as required.
ISAAK LIEN
ART DIRECTOR | CONCEPT ARTIST
| INSTRUCTOR
626.592.0697
isaaklien@gmail.com
www.isaaklien.com
About Me
Work Experience
I am a passionate, creative, and artistically minded individual who has worked in the mobile game industry for
over 12 years and helped shipped over 10 titles as a game Production and Concept Artist, Outsourcing Art
Manager, and Art Director. I love working with the team to create art that excites and moves the heart of the
player. For me, it is all about pulling various visual levers to get the perfect synergy between art and core
gameplay to create that mind-blowing visual experience that sends the player to a mesmerizing world. Other
than that I get ecstatic about taking leaps of faith in innovative game ideas or features,concepting ideas, and
developing the look of new games. Lastly, I love mentoring, teaching, and inspire students to uncover their art
potentials.
E D U C A T I O N
ILLUSTRATION +
ENTERTAINMENT DESIGN
Art Center College of Design
2004-2008
S O F T W A R E S K I L L
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Animate
Adobe Illustrator
Unity
Spine
Zbrush
Maya
Trello
Jira
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Work Experience
2017- 2021
Outsourcing Art Manager @ Jam City (formerly SGN)
- Manage Cookie Jam external art pipeline which includes finding and testing the right
teams and artists, negotiating prices, train teams and artists, establishing visual style
and form language and creating concept rendering style guides, provide art direction
and feedback, scheduling, task assignment, polishing, and tech prepping
2014- 2017
Senior Artist @ Jam City (formerly SGN)
- Create and develop concept and production art assets such as game maps, icons, and
etc. for Cookie Jam (iOS, Android, Amazon, Facebook, PC game)
- Research, concept, create prompts for art orders and provide feedback for outsourcing
art submissions such as game maps, VFX, and GUI
2013- 2014
Production Artist @ Jam City (formerly SGN)
- Create and develop concepts and production game assets for characters, maps, and
GUI for Cookie Jam(available on iOS, Google Play, and Facebook)
- Guide and assign asset tasks to the external art team
2016
Game Artist @ A Happi Place
- Concept and render 2D game assets such as characters, game pieces, backgrounds, UI
art, etc.
2012-2013
Concept and Production Game Artist @ Kung Fu Factory (part of
Netmarble)
- Create and develop visual styles, concepts, characters, and production game assets.
- Prepare 2d characters for animation, develop sprites for 2D animation, and design
props for SpongeBob Moves In (available iOS)
- Concept, develop and redesign art assets for Konami’s Slot Revolution (available on iOS
and Google Play)
- Design Halloween costume concepts for Domo in Xbox Live Avatar Store
- Create mocks for various IP and non IP game pitches
2012-2013
2D Game Artist @ Mega Rock, LLC
- Create production art for characters, background, and UI for A Bike Race of Ninja
Temple- a top 10 free game on iOS app store in 2013 (available on iOS)
- Create production art for Ancient Surf (available on iOS)
- Create production art for all game art assets including characters, icons, UI, and
backgrounds for Aces Casino Lucky Jewels & Gems Slots Pro (iOS)
- Concept and create production level characters with sprite animation using Adobe
Flash
- Create all graphic user interfaces as well as background using Adobe Flash and
Photoshop
(iOS, Android, Amazon, Facebook, PC game)
P U B L I S H E D W O R K
BUBBLE SHOOTER: PANDA
POP!
(iOS, Android, Amazon, Facebook,
PC game) Top Bubble Shooter
COOKIE JAM
(iOS, Android, Amazon, Facebook,
PC game) Top 20s in Apple Top
Grossing
A BIKE RACE OF NINJA
TEMPLE
(iOS) - Top 10 in Apple app store
free app category ranking
COOKIE JAM BLAST
(iOS, Android, Amazon, Facebook,
PC game)
A NINJA ZOMBIE KNIGHT
SPACE RACER
(iOS)
ACES CASINO LUCKY SLOTS
OF THRONES PRO
(iOS)
ATTACK OVER OZ
(iOS)
ALIEN KNIGHT SPEED
RACER
(iOS)
SPONGEBOB MOVES IN
(iOS, Android)
ATTACK OVER OZ
(iOS)
SLOT REVOLUTION
(iOS, Android)
ANCIENT SURF
(iOS)
“MY GIRL” IN EXPOSE 7
Ballistic Publishing
READING IS FUN! IMAGINE
THAT!: BOOK ONE
(Educational Storybook)