
Rohan Jake
Concept Artist
Designing the look and feel of worlds and characters
Concept artist with eight years designing characters, environments and props for games and animation studios in Bangalore. Translates a brief or story into the visual language of a project — exploring designs, painting concepts, and setting the look that the whole production builds from. Designed the visual world and key characters for a shipped game praised for its art direction. Works across character, creature, environment and prop design, in digital painting, 3D blockouts and photobashing, and iterates fast on art-direction feedback. Strong on both the imagination and design thinking and the craft to render ideas convincingly. Collaborative and quick to explore many directions. Looking for a concept-artist or visual-development role at a games, film or animation studio doing visually ambitious work.
Bangalore Game Studios - Bangalore, India
Concept Artist
Designed the visual world and the key characters for a shipped game praised for its art direction.
Explore the designs and paint up the concepts that the whole production then builds from.
Work across the digital painting, 3D blockouts and photobashing on all the design tasks daily.
Iterate fast on all the art-direction feedback to hit exactly the intended look and feel.
Collaborate closely with the art directors, the modellers and the animators right across the pipeline.
South India Animation Studio - Bangalore, India
Junior Concept / Production Artist
Supported the senior artists on the character and the environment design work.
Built the design and painting skills and a much stronger portfolio.
Gained the concept-art certification and then moved into a concept-artist role.
Self-Employed - Bangalore, India
Freelance Illustrator
Built up the painting craft and a portfolio across many different styles.
Learned to take direction and deliver to a brief on deadline.
Then earned the move into a junior concept and production-art role.
Srishti Institute of Art, Bangalore
BA in Fine Arts & Digital Design
CGMA / Industry Training
Concept Art & Visual Development Certification
English
Full Professional ProficiencyHindi
Native or Bilingual ProficiencyKannada
Professional Working ProficiencyConcept Art & Visual Development
CGMA / Industry Training (June 2017 to Present)
Character Design & Environment Painting
CGMA (April 2019 to Present)
Praised art direction
Fast, broad exploration
Personal IP Concept Series
Concept Artist (January 2020 to June 2021)
Game Art-Direction Pitch
Concept Artist (January 2020 to May 2020)
- Character Design
- Environment Design
- Prop & Creature Design
- Digital Painting
- Visual Development
- Composition
- Photobashing
- 3D Blockouts
- Colour & Light
- Art Direction Feedback
- Imagination
- Artistic Eye
- Creativity
- Collaboration
- Adaptability