Shana Vandercruysse

Principal Character Artist - Snowprint Studios

Berlin, Germany

Summary

Hi there!

I'm Shana, I'm a character artist, outsource manager, rigger, lighter, renderer and so much more, currently overseeing work on Tacticus, a Warhammer 40k mobile game at Snowprint Studios in Berlin.

Snowprint studios is a wonderful young game studio creating mid core turn based strategic mobile games; in other words not your average "play me in the bathroom/bored housewife" kinda games, but more "chess on steriods looking really awesome and challenging" kinda games... We have a high visual standard and focus a lot on player satisfaction, and that's basically why I love working there. I'm their principal character artist and art producer which means that on a day to day I get to do all the things I love doing! If you are an artist with some primo skills yourself, please hit me up, as I'm always keen on finding great people to work with :)

Before working with the lovely people at Snowprint I was a freelance Character artist for a few years, working on exciting well known projects such as Fortnite, but also exciting lesser known projects for advertisement, 3D print - toy industry, retail and more.

In what now seems a distant past I was also a lecturer at the globally renowned and award winning Digital arts and Entertainment for e few years, a university college in Belgium that delivers quality game dev students to the industry. There I was responsible for the Character art courses and rigging courses, next to teaching 3D intro courses, photoshop and standard industry knowledge.

Skills

Software proficiency

3ds Max

Keyshot

Maya

Photoshop

Marmoset Toolbag

ZBrush

Redshift

substance painter

Productions

- Mobile Game
  Tacticus Warhammer 40000
- Year
  2022
- Role
  Principal Character Artist
- Company
  Snowprint Studios
- Video Game
  Fortnite
- Year
  2017
- Role
  Character artist
- Company
  Airborn - Epic
- Video Game
  Divinity 1 - Original Sin
- Year
  2014
- Role
  Character artist, Rigging, Environment animator, character/creature animator,
- Company
  Larian Studios

Experience

Principal Character Artist at Snowprint Studios Berlin
Berlin, Germany
October 2018 - Present
As a principal character artist I oversee a wide variety of things, all concerning the characters in our game.

I establish the look of our characters, create highpoly render-models as well as lowpoly in-game models, oversee planning, manage outsourcing, take care of rigging, rendering and more.
Freelance Character Artist at Xiola
Hasselt, Belgium
January 2017 - January 2018
Xiola contacted me with the amazing opportunity to work on a nation wide courtesy campaign for the Belgian railway company. Up to this day my work is to be seen in all trains and station in Belgium on little plaques and large posters, telling people how to behave on and around the trains!
Freelance Character Artist at Airborn Studios
Berlin, Germany
March 2017 - September 2018
Through Airborn studios I was able to work on a handful of heads and skins for the characters in Fortnite by Epic. Some of them are still not present in my portfolio though :D
Freelance Character Artist at GlobeTrade
Kortrijk, Belgium
June 2016 - Present
GlobeTrade provided me with the awesome opportunity to sculpt and design toys and figurines for them! They work for many big licenses like Warner bros, Disney, Marvel and so on.
3D arts Lector at Howest University - Digital Arts and Entertainment
Kortrijk, Belgium
September 2012 - September 2016
Digital Arts and Entertainment (DAE) is one of the worlds best Game Art schools, located in Belgium. I was a teacher, community manager and study coach here for a couple of years; leading the Character art programs (3D basics, Zbrush and Rigging), organizing events and party's and taking care of the well being of my students.