Erin Fusco

About Erin Fusco

Hello! I love making new connections; please shoot me a message and introduce yourself!Producer specializing in creative services. Versatile artist, illustrator, and graphic designer with 15+ years of entertainment industry experience. Currently overseeing concept art and outsourcing art teams on Blizzard\'s high-anticipated DIABLO IV. Former showrunner/producer of TITANIC (inspired by the James Cameron film) on the app STORYSCAPE, launched Oct 2019. In addition to many years in social and mobile games, has done work for television, casino gaming, apparel, and children\'s toys and products. Clients include Sugar Inc, The Walt Disney Company, NBC/Universal, and Endemol USA. MANAGEMENT SKILLS: Art direction, art team ramp-up, training and leadership, 2D & 3D vendor hiring/management (domestic and international), daily feedback, asset pipeline set up and scheduling for small and large teams both in-house and overseas, contract negotiation, budgeting, billing, invoice filing, cross-team communication and solutions with company leaders, business development and marketing teamsART SKILLS: Character design, concept art and development, prop design, game asset creation, animation, marketing, storyboarding, boarding, style guides, human anatomy, clean-up, perspective, comics, UI, product, illustration, layout, graphic design, 3D pipeline/asset familiarity, mac \'n cheese enhancement

Experience

1. Game Producer

   Blizzard Entertainment

   May 2020 — Present · Irvine, CA, US

   Game Producer on Diablo IV, overseeing internal concept art and art outsourcing teams. Responsibilities include- Communication with cross-discipline leads and stakeholders to ensure team and project needs are met- Overseeing and maintaining schedules for various art teams- Works collaboratively with leadership to ideate and integrate on process and pipeline improvements/best practices- Checks in regularly with artists and team members to ensure needs and job satisfactions are met- Engages with, negotiates, and executes legal documentation (including NDAs, statements of work) and processes invoices for vendors and contract artists.Additional duties include collaborative work with consumer products and marketing teams, including merchandise design, feedback, and execution.

Education

• Laguna College of Art and Design

  Animation

  2004 — 2005

Skills

• Game Art
• Product Design
• Drawing
• Adobe Illustrator
• Art Direction
• Advertising
• Background Design
• User Interface Design
• Concept Art
• Prop Design
• Storyboarding
• Digital Marketing
• Conceptual Art
• Caricatures
• Marketing
• Backgrounds
• Casual Games
• Jira
• Art
• Characters
• Concept Design
• Digital Art
• Illustration
• Background
• Graphic Design
• Photoshop
• Comics
• Social Games
• Creative Direction
• Vector Illustration
• Flash
• Cartoons
• Animation
• Product Development
• Unity
• Digital Painting
• Adobe Photoshop
• Video Games
• Logo Design
• Character Design