Biography
Online Portfolio
Dominique Duran has been a Game Senior Art Director for 4 years for hit indie game, UNTIL THEN by Polychroma Games and Co-Creator of much-anticipated graphic novel, CHAMPION OF THE ROSE, to be published by VIZ Media. She has illustrated for print media, digital media, game animations, music videos, book covers and comics, been nominated for awards, and has served international clientele with her illustrations.
Dominique Duran has been a Game Senior Art Director for 4 years for hit indie game, UNTIL THEN by Polychroma Games and Co-Creator of much-anticipated graphic novel, CHAMPION OF THE ROSE, to be published by VIZ Media. She has illustrated for print media, digital media, game animations, music videos, book covers and comics, been nominated for awards, and has served international clientele with her illustrations.
Experience
Senior Artist
Brand New Company
Sep 2023 to Present
Establishing the visual direction and crafting graphics and illustrations for clients and our in-house IP's. This includes, but isn't limited to:
- Advertising and marketing assets,
- YouTube stream assets,
- Music video assets, and
- Branding material
Game Senior Art Director
Polychroma Games
May 2020 to June 2023
May 2020 to June 2023
- Conceptualizing and establishing the art direction for indie game, Until Then
- Leading a team of artists and animators to create assets as needed by the game director and developers.
- Training artists on the software we use for the game, as well as the work pipeline
- Communicating with all departments to streamline their needs into scheduled job orders
- Establishing and communicating the lead time needed to accomplish job orders
- Storyboarding and animating cutscenes within the game
- Level designing certain levels
- Animating character sprites
- Conceptualizing character art
- Creating background art assets
Co-Creator
Champion of the Rose under VIZ Media
July 2020 to Present
Co-creating the much-anticipated graphic novel Champion of the Rose alongside Cat Aquino since July of 2020.
July 2020 to Present
Co-creating the much-anticipated graphic novel Champion of the Rose alongside Cat Aquino since July of 2020.
- Conceptualizing and establishing the art direction for graphic novel
- Conceptualizing characters and settings by researching relevant historical data and modernizing it
- Crafting a pitch deck that landed us representation under Einstein Literary Management and landed us a publishing deal with VIZ Media under VIZ Originals
- Co-creating characters, plotlines and a fictional history alongside Cat Aquino
- Storyboarding and illustrating the graphic novel pages, book cover and additional marketing material
Graphic Design Intern
Vgrafiks
June 2017 to July 2017
Assisting the team in creating
June 2017 to July 2017
Assisting the team in creating
- marketing material for clients
- branding material for clients
- event proposals for pitches
Skills
Adobe PhotoshopAdobe IllustratorAdobe InDesign
- Other
- Quezon City, Metro Manila
- Joined on Apr 2024