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Dijana Rajakovic
Adobe Photoshop
Digital Illustration
Painting

Hi! I'm Dijana! I'm a 2D artist/generalist with 6 years of gamedev experience, and 3 years of management experience. I love painting portraits, characters and fantasy illustrations.

Biography

I attended the Art Academy in Split where I got my MA in Fine Art and Art Education. After graduating, while working on developing my skills, personal projects, and working on private commissions, I started applying to game studios. My first job was as a prop artist on PC and mobile games. Within a year and a half, I was promoted to an Art Lead position, and then again to an Art Team Lead position two years after that. I also spent a year freelancing as an illustrator on mobile apps. I have experience doing both stylized and realistic 2D art for games. In my free time, I love painting portraits, annoying my 14 year old cat (it's mutual), playing Overwatch 2 or Civ6, and reading fantasy books. Dream projects would be a visually updated HOMM3 game, or Civilisation 7.

Skills

Roles

  • Mastery
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  • Advanced
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  • Advanced
  • Advanced
  • Basic

Technical Skills

  • Mastery
  • Mastery

Software

  • Mastery
  • Basic

Soft Skills

  • Advanced
  • Intermediate
  • Intermediate
  • Intermediate

Work Experience

2021 – 2023

Freelance Artist

- (Zagreb, Croatia)
Working as a freelance concept artist and illustrator on book covers and mobile apps.

2020 – 2021

Art Lead

Playrix Croatia (Zagreb, Croatia)
Working across departments on priorities, planning, organizing, distributing tasks and assignments in the art department. Optimizing processes. Participating in hiring and onboarding new team members.

2019 – 2020

Art Lead

Playrix Croatia (Zagreb, Croatia)
Working onboarding, new technologies, setting up new pipelines and documentation, preparing tasks and timelines for the art department, working on concept art for a new project/company.

2018 – 2019

Art Lead

Cateia Games (Zagreb, Croatia)
Overseeing internal and freelance artists, collaborating with narrative designers and programmers in the conception, production and implementation of items for HOG games.

2016 – 2018

2D Artist

Cateia Games (Zagreb, Croatia)
Concepting, polishing, preparing 2D game assets for implementation. Texturing 3D models in PS. Preparing feedback for outsourcers with the help of our Art Director.

Education

2019 – 2015

MA

Art Academy in Split

Fine Art and Art Education

Traditional fine art skills (life drawing, figure drawing, sculpture, graphical art techniques), contemportary art, art history, educational skills, psychology, psychiatry, art therapy.