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Dan Taylor

Technical artist, animator, illustrator

Colorado Springs, United States

Summary

I'm Dan. I work as an industry tech artist, illustrator, designer, programmer, and self-dev. I use innovative techniques to immerse others in colorful and exciting new ways. +15 years of art development experience, 10 years in independent game development.

Currently working for Direwolf Digital

Projects:
Freedom Planet 2 (artist)
Animal Insurgent Mercenaries (technical artist, concept art, animation)
Dune Imperium (Illustrator, technical artist)
Cascadia Digital (full-stack art development)
Root Digital (character animator)

Bachelor's Degree in Game Design and Development with an emphasis on C# programming and game production, project management, and beyond.

Skills

Software proficiency

3ds Max

After Effects

AutoCAD

Blender

Photoshop

Unity

Flash

Premiere

PaintTool SAI

CLIP STUDIO PAINT

Godot

XNA

Reel

Productions

- Video Game
  Everdell (Steam)
- Year
  2026
- Role
  Character Modeler, Animator
- Company
  Direwolf Digital
- Video Game
  Clank! (Steam)
- Year
  2025
- Role
  Concept Artist, 3d Environment Artist
- Company
  Direwolf Digital
- Video Game
  Cascadia (Steam)
- Year
  2025
- Role
  Full Stack art-development, Illustrator, Technical Artist, Marketing, Mobile Platform Conversion
- Company
  Direwolf Digital
- Video Game
  Isle of Cats (Steam)
- Year
  2024
- Role
  UI Designer, Technical Artist, Illustrator
- Company
  Direwolf Digital
- Video Game
  Root (Steam)
- Year
  2023
- Role
  Character Animator, 3d Environment Artist
- Company
  Direwolf Digital
- Video Game
  Dune Imperium (Steam)
- Year
  2023
- Role
  Technical Artist , Illustrator
- Company
  Direwolf Digital
- Board & Card Games
  Dune Imperium (Immortality, Uprising)
- Year
  2023
- Role
  Illustrator
- Company
  Direwolf Digital
- Video Game
  Freedom Planet 2
- Year
  2022
- Role
  Animator, Background Artist, Environment Concept Art
- Company
  Galaxytrail Games
- Mobile Game
  Tilelands
- Year
  2017
- Role
  Creator
- Company
  Dansyron Interactive
- Video Game
  Dwindle
- Year
  2018
- Role
  2D artist, User Interface Designer
- Company
  Rabid Troll Studios

Experience

Artist at Direwolf Digital
Denver, United States
February 2022 - Present
General artist, illustrator, visdev
Tilelands at Dansyron Interactive
Colorado Springs
January 2017 - May 2017
Self-produced Tilelands, a mobile procedural puzzle game involving the creation of Island Chains. Was responsible for all areas of game development from programming to artwork to publishing. Game was successfully launched to the Appstore and Google Play for iOS and Android in May 2017.

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