Designer, Illustrator, Game Maker, and Agile Project Manager
(716)930-3649 || estherabosch@gmail.com ||Eugene, OR
Education
UCLA // 2015-2019
B.A., Design Media Arts
Minor in Asian Languages (with a focus in Japanese)
3.9 GPA
Tsuru University 都留文科大学 // August-December 2018
Study Abroad, Japanese Language, Culture, and History
Fountain Valley High School // 2012-2015
High School Diploma
4.6 GPA
Experience
Game Designer
Pipeworks Studios
September 2019 – Now // Manages a team of artists and engineers and defines product roadmaps for proprietary game projects.
Game Design Teaching Assistant
UCLA Game Lab / UCLA Department of Design Media Arts
June – August 2019 // Assisted instructor and led workshops on animation, interaction, and design in analogue and Unity games.
Game Design Fellow
UCLA Game Lab
Jan 2019 – June 2019 // Created a game as part of the UCLA Game Lab Fellowship program.
Design Lead
Double Major
Feb 2017 – now // Works with clients to create promotional material for events, including animated projections, digital displays, social media banners, print materials, and videos.
English Teaching Assistant
Tsuru University, Tsuru High School
October – December 2018 // Created lessons, directed conversations in English, and assisted teachers at Tsuru High School in Tsuru-shi, Yamanashi-ken, Japan.
Design Intern
18th Street Arts Center
July-September 2016 // Created promotional material for 18th Street Art Center’s various fundraising events as well as the artists-in-residence.
Web Design / Programming Certification
California Regional Occupational Program
Organizations
UCLA Game Lab
December 2018 – now // A member of and current research fellow at UCLA’s Game Lab, a student group that fosters the creation of games and puts on various events/lectures throughout the year, including the biannual Game Arts Festival at the Hammer Museum in Westwood.
Fountain Valley Art Club
September 2014 – June 2015 // Founder and President of Fountain Valley High School’s Art Club, which met to further various student projects and create murals on school grounds.
Skills
Proficient In:
- Blender
- C#
- HTML
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Autodesk Maya
- Unity
- Japanese
Esther Abosch 