Experience

• Associate Art Director at Scopely

  Barcelona, Spain

  March 2021 - Present

  Currently co-guiding the visuals of Scrabble® GO and managing the production from the art side, aligning our multidisciplinary team of 16 artists with other project leads and stakeholders.

  • Championing and enforcing the game art style, striving for a strong creative vision.
  
  • Collaborating closely with Product and Performance to help visualize our roadmap through development.
  
  • Ensuring production quality by reviewing assets and overseeing the art pipeline.

• Art Lead / Manager at Scopely

  Barcelona, Spain

  March 2019 - March 2021

  Planning the game production for our internal art team and collaborating with our partner studio in Los Angeles. My focus was to lead our efforts on scheduling and delivering high quality artwork on new features and LiveOps events.

  • Maintaining and optimizing art workflows to get the best possible results at the right pace.
  
  • Assisting on the art direction, helping on developing a shared artistic mindset among the team.
  
  • Creating a solid relationship with outsourcing and contractors, providing guidelines and feedback.

• Senior UI Artist at Scopely

  Barcelona, Spain

  November 2017 - January 2019

  First member of the Barcelona Game Studio. Since day one I balanced my hands-on duties with helping on building the necessary bridges between BCN and LA, hiring new art team members and identifying areas of improvement in the game development pipeline.

  • Working closely with product and design to collaborate on our global vision.
  
  • Creating in-game mockups and assets for key areas of the game.
  
  • Assisting new and junior team members in our internal processes.

• UI Artist at King

  Barcelona, Spain

  September 2015 - October 2000

  I started working on the Experimentation Group, where we were trying new ideas and mechanics on old games to extrapolate our learnings on hits like Candy Crush. After my run there, I moved to their first independent studio focused on mid-core games.

  • Conceptualizing and implementing new features for our live games.
  
  • Working on 2D art and interfaces for new casual puzzle prototypes.
  
  • Co-driving the UI art direction of their first action-RPG project.

• UI Artist at Social Point

  Barcelona, Spain

  December 2012 - May 2015

  First dedicated User Interface Artist in the company. I worked autonomously on almost every single game, jumping as needed between projects for both Facebook and mobile.

  • Providing the UI art vision of new games and prototypes.
  
  • Keeping a close communication with producers, designers and engineers
  
  • Helping on transitioning projects to other artists, when the UI art direction was stablished and the game ready to go.

• Production Artist at Robot Media

  Barcelona, Spain

  September 2011 - December 2012

  Producing interactive children’s books and comic books for tablets and mobiles, including content for publishers such as HarperCollins or Random House. Leading the creation of illustrations, animations and product design.

• Multimedia Designer at Neosono

  Barcelona, Spain

  May 2010 - September 2011

  Creating UI graphics for different iOS and Android apps. Coordinating with developers and marketing teams, I also designed and managed mobile websites for the Vodafone Live! online portal in Spain.

• Graphic Designer at 36Oº Creative

  Barcelona, Spain

  April 2009 - July 2009

  Carrying out graphic design projects for companies from a very varied fields, such as Paramount or Vueling, producing brand design, brochures, ads, banners, web materials and so on.

• Illustrator and Graphic Designer at Gorgone

  Barcelona, Spain

  September 2007 - September 2008

  Designing promotional packaging for Nutrexpa, one of the largest groups of the food industry in my country, creating appealing illustrations for packs, posters, displays and other point-of-sale materials.

• Creative Designer at Imago

  Barcelona, Spain

  April 2006 - October 2007

  Illustrations, magazine layout design and marketing art for upcoming film and video game releases on product co-branding actions for kids.