Shay Casey

About Shay Casey

HIGHLIGHTS / • 12 Illustration + Design Awards / HOW Magazine and cgHub • 31 Years of Experience / Leading Creative Projects for National Consumer Brands • 16 Games Developed / 3 Console Titles, 3 iPhone Games, 10+ Web Games • Expert Skill Level / Unreal, Flash, Scaleform GFx, Photoshop, Illustrator, Unity • Advanced Skill Level / After Effects, Logic, Audacity, ActionScript, UnityScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL • 2 National Trends Started / Surfing Industry, 1990 and Car Audio Industry, 1997 PARTIAL CLIENT LIST BY INDUSTRY / Entertainment - MTV, ESPN.com, ESPN The Magazine, X Games, Harmonix, SEGA, Konami, 2K Games, Crystal Dynamics, Epic Records, TNT, Paramount Pictures, Chillingo/EA Food and Beverage - PEPSI, Budweiser, Heineken, Dos Equis, Doritios, Hershey\'s, Tic Tac, Hot Tamales Hendrick’s Gin Car Audio and Electronics - Rockford Fosgate, Lightning Audio, Command Start, Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association Miscellaneous – MLB, Volkswagen, GMC, Hummer, Home Depot, Allstate, Nationwide, Hasboro EDUCATION / A.A. w/honors in Visual Communication, Collins College, Tempe, AZ 1994 Silver Medal Portfolio 1994 Specialties: Graphic Design, User Interface, Youth Culture Consumer Design + Organized Chaos

Experience

1. Associate Art Director

   Bend Studio

   Aug 2021 — Present · Bend, OR, US

   As associate Art Director (Brand/Marketing) I have worked on a wide range of creative tasks within the studio.• Website Design - Designed the full Bend Studio website and all page content• Creative Direction, Writing, Editing and Motion Graphics - Created the entire Bend Studio Launch Video for the new website and YouTube channel.• Logo Development - Created the new Bend Studio logo as a flexible system that can use the wordmark or icon together or separately to allow for playful and expressive applications of our style that can be modified over time without breaking any of the identity\'s rules.• Identity Design - Created a full set of sample content, rules and documents for the new studio brand including a full corporate Brand Guide and more experimental Style Guide.• Marketing Asset Design - Designed and animated a ton of brand launch materials for social media helping our team deliver huge returns in reach and engagement.• Content Design - Designed and animated numerous external marketing pieces.• Creative Direction - Pitched three original IP ideas, each with art direction, gameplay and finished high-level pitch decks as well as assisting other internal teams with art and design support for their final presentations.• Creative Direction - Lead an internal team to finalize one of these pitch decks (a top contender) to be presented to external producers and Sony executives. Full pitch included a 2 minute, action-packed video trailer and final IP presentation decks with branding, art direction and overall design direction.• Visual Development - Worked with new Creative Director to establish internal original IP direction including theme, style and tone including numerous vis dev experiments and final documentation.• Visual Development - Worked with new Creative Director to establish overall IP Art Direction goals including ideas for overall themes and visual style, including characters, vehicles, props, environments and more.