Ziwei Duanmu

• Planned, prepared, and delivered instructional activities related to various art mediums, including acrylics, watercolors, sumi ink, pastels, collage, and clay work.
• Organized field trips to museums or galleries to expose students to different styles of art.
• Created displays of student artwork for exhibitions at local venues.
• Created age-appropriate lesson plans to meet the diverse learning needs of children through individual and collaborative projects.
• Encouraged children to explore creativity through thoughtfully designed curricula and classroom environments.
• Collaborated with parents to support students' artistic interests.
• Prepared progress reports to evaluate student performance and growth in knowledge and aesthetic understandings.

• 2D Artist | Yotta Games

Created artwork for various mobile games, including characters, backgrounds and user interfaces.

• Illustrator | Xueersi Online School

Created detailed illustrations for K-12 online educational materials based on client briefs, capturing the imagination of young readers and complementing narrative content.

• Digital Painter | Alex Israel

Collaborated with American multimedia artist, writer, and designer Alex Israel to create highly detailed, uniquely styled scenes for his installation art, based on his specific requirements, drawing inspiration from real-life landmarks in the LA area.

• Visual Designer | Swapsy. Inc

Produced web design, user interface design, and comprehensive graphic design works, including logos, icons, flyers, brochures, and other visuals for print or web.

• Designed scenes and props for English educational animation.
• Collaborated with the director to develop art designs that align with curriculum needs and conveyed the director's vision to outsourcing teams through visual references.
• Provided clear feedback and guidance to outsourcing companies and adjusted submitted paintings to ensure consistency with the overall style of the animation.

• Animation Background Artist | Walt Disney Television

Contributed to the production of interstitial animation advertisements for basketball and baseball games commissioned by Disney, creating animation backgrounds in the classic Mickey Mouse cartoon style.

• Animation Background Artist | Walt Disney Animation Studios

Created background paintings for the Disney animated short film 101 Dalmatians: The Further Adventures of Thunderbolt.

• Developed digital backgrounds to be used in animation sequences based on storyboard and production guidance.
• Generated color keys to indicate the mood of a scene or sequence.
• Collaborated with directors and other artists to ensure design elements were consistent throughout production.
• Composed complex compositions incorporating multiple layers of imagery into single shots for animation projects.