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Maria Red

Senior

Traditional Art
Proactive
Oil Painting

Hello there! My name is Maria Red, I'm a multidisciplinary Visual Development / Concept Artist, Background/Layout Artist, Illustrator and a WIZARD working for Animation, Videogames and Illustration.

Biography

I've worked in the entertainment industry since 2015 on different roles, projects and companies; Visual Development/Color Script Artist for the 3D TV Animated Series Treasure Trekkers (B-Water Studios), Layout Artist for The Cuphead Show!, Lighthouse Studios (NETFLIX) and Lead Layout Artist on Rick&Morty S7/S8 by Green Portal Productions (Adult Swim), Concept Artist for Lightbox Animation Studios, Freelance Illustrator for 'Call of Cthulhu' and 'Lords of the Middle Sea' RPG by publisher Chaosium.Inc, and Senior Concept Artist at Arxlight Pictures working on the Feature Monstrous MIA among other projects.

I've had the opportunity to work with clients such as Amazon, NETFLIX, Apple TV or Green Portal Productions.

Originally from Spain, but currently I'm based in beautiful Kilkenny, Ireland, where I work as a Freelance Artist, In-House and remotely.

Always open to work in new exciting projects and adventures. If you are in need of a creative with my set of skills or you have any ideas for a potential creative collaboration, please feel free to send me a word and I would be happy to discuss them.

You can reach me anytime here: [email protected]

Namarië

Skills

Roles

  • Advanced
  • Advanced
  • Basic
  • Basic
  • Basic

Technical Skills

  • Mastery
  • Mastery

Other Skills

  • Mastery
  • Advanced
  • Intermediate
  • Intermediate
  • Basic

Work Experience

2024 – Present day

LEAD 2D LAYOUT ARTIST

LIGHTHOUSE STUDIOS (Ireland)
• Designing complex layouts, teaching and managing the team, tasks organization for Rick & Morty S8

2023 – 2024

Illustrator (Freelance)

CHAOSIUM (Remote)
• Illustrations for an upcoming Call of Cthulhu role-playing game. • Art commission for Lords of the Middle Sea RPG book.

2023 – 2024

SENIOR CONCEPT / VISUAL DEVELOPMENT ARTIST

ARXLIGHT PICTURES ( Remote)
• Sets & Props Designer and Visual Development for the upcoming feature film Monstrous Mia.

2023 – 2023

Illustrator (Freelance)

LIGHTBOX ANIMATION STUDIOS (Remote)
• Helping the team to make a Pitchbook for a future project

2023 – 2023

SENIOR 2D LAYOUT ARTIST

LIGHTHOUSE STUDIOS (Ireland)
• Designing layouts on TBA project for Apple TV • Designing layouts for Rick&Morty S7

2022 – 2022

Background Designer (Freelance)

SOURCE POINT PRESS (Remote)
• Designing, cleaning and painting the backgrounds for "Good Boy" trailer

2019 – 2021

Layout Artist

Lighthouse Studios (Kilkenny, Ireland)
2D Layout Artist for the "THE CUPHEAD SHOW" TV Series by NETFLIX.

2019 – 2019

Layout Artist

Lighthouse Studios (Kilkenny, Ireland)
2D Layout Artist for the "Give a Mouse a Cookie" TV Series in collaboration with AMAZON.

2018 – 2019

Visual Development Artist

B-water animation studios (Tenerife, Spain)
Worked with director Thierry Marchand and the Art Director José Maria Guadalupe as Visual Development Artist, Location Designer and Color Script Artist for their TV Series "Treasure Trekkers".

2017 – 2017

Concept Artist (Freelance)

Party Llama Games (United Kingdom)
Helped the talented team of Pandora the Videogame to develop the look of characters, props and environments of their video game PANDORA: CHAINS OF CHAOS.

2015 – 2017

Vis Dev, Color Script, Layout and BG Artist

Angry Metal Studios (Spain)
Visual Dev Artist, Color Script Artist and Location Designer for the movie in collaboration with the producer Adi Shankar and Disney Maker Studios.

Education

2024 – Present day

Online Course

SAM CARR

3d

BLENDER FOR 2D ARTISTS

2023 – 2023

Online Course

ZACRETZ - Online

Color

6 WEEKS PAINTING CLASS

2005 – 2010

Graphic Design

ESAPA

Design