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Tiago Pimentel
Digital Painting
Traditional Painting
Drawing

Biography

Tiago Lobo Pimentel is an independent illustrator, concept artist, painter and teacher. He has created conceptual and illustration work professionally for diverse range of projects in the video game, advertising and publishing industries. He's passionate about teaching and helping aspiring artists to begin their careers, and splits his time between freelance work and being the course leader of the concept art course and concept art teacher at the videogames course, both at the ETIC multimedia school. Tiago currently lives, works and teaches in Lisbon, Portugal. And when he's not battling deadlines and working on top secret projects that he can't talk about, you'll find him sketching outside, drinking a good cappuccino, and playing one of the latest video games.

Skills

Technical Skills

  • Mastery
  • Mastery

Other Skills

  • Mastery
  • Intermediate

Work Experience

2019 – Present day

Course Leader

ETIC (Portugal)
Course Leader of the concept art course.

2017 – Present day

Teacher

ETIC (Portugal)
Digital Painting Teacher

2010 – Present day

Freelancer

Freelancer (Everywhere)
- Key framing and storyboarding art for client pitch - Advertising pre-production - Character development - Art direction - Book cover design and illustration

2009 – 2010

2D Artist and concept artist

Blitpop (Portugal)
- Gameplay design - Visual definition of several games - Character development - UI and HUD design

2005 – 2006

Lead - Concept Artist

R.T.S. - Real time solutions (Portugal)
- Team lead - Visual definition of several games - Gameplay design - Character and environment development

2005 – 2005

Concept Artist

Eworks (Portugal)
- Gameplay design - Character development - UI and HUD design - 2D animation and Pixel art

Education

2001 – 2005

IADE

Graphic Design