Lauren Taylor
Graphic Designer
laurenetay@gmail.com 801-635-6167
Shop Owner - Darling Custom Prints - darlingcustomprints.etsy.com
Jan 2015 - Present. 7,000+ sales, 800+ reviews maintaining a five star rating, 700+ shop followers as of October 2021. All illustrations are hand drawn and painted with watercolor, gouache, and ink, and then optimized and arranged in Photoshop. After that, fillable forms are added in Adobe Acrobat Pro so that customers can easily enter their own party information.
Featured Products | Mock-ups, Digital File Previews, and Customer Photos
Invitations
Food Tents
Cupcake Toppers
Centerpieces / Cake Toppers
Bag Toppers
Outsourcing Intern - Disney Interactive + Avalanche Software
"Disney Infinity 1.0"
Jun 2012 - Jan 2013. Coordinated between studio and external vendors to oversee the production of top quality game assets. Managed deadlines for asset production and reported to managers, producers, and department leads. Brainstormed artistic and creative solutions for the challenges of specific assets that became key parts of the game. Communicated remotely via video messages to relay art direction and critiques to external vendors across the globe.
Samples of Assets Managed During Internship
Animated Short Producer - Student Film, "Estefan"
Brigham Young University, Animation Program
Nov 2010 - Apr 2013.
Awarded First Place, Animation in the 34th College Television Awards (“Student Emmy’s”), Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, April 2013
Awarded Best Student Project, SIGGRAPH 2012, Electronic Theatre, August 2012
Established all deadlines in production, managing a hundred students total over two and a half years. Worked with the student director, department leads, and faculty to ensure the highest quality execution. Ran dailies during the entire production, and worked closely with industry mentors from DreamWorks Animation.
View Estefan Online at Vimeo.com | Click Below
Managing the production of our student film kept me very busy, but I loved it whenever I got a chance to contribute art to the project.
Concept Art Samples
3D Modeling and Texturing Samples, Autodesk Maya
Concept Art for Axe and Domed Dryer were Received from a Classmate
My Own Reference Materials for Axe Textures
Bump Map + Color Map + Spec Map for 3D Texturing
All the hard work of two and a half years was worth it. "Estefan" was awarded a Student Emmy from the College Television Awards. The award is always given to the project's producer, but it really is the result of amazing collaborative work of about one hundred students.
Illustrator - BYU Independent Study
Sep 2010 - Dec 2010. Illustrated digital artwork for online university courses. Pitched artistic concepts that fit the given course, to be approved by the supervisor and course designer. Artwork included headings for each course, chapters, as well as spot illustrations throughout.
Complete Course Sample
