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Hello! I'm Randy Glusac, a cartoonist, illustrator, graphic artist and animator with more than thirty years of experience, spanning book illustration, television and film animation, and on-screen game graphics. I’ve collaborated with major studios and publishers, and I enjoy creating visually engaging art across styles from realistic to broad cartoon, while mentoring teams and shaping the look and feel of projects. After a career break to travel and explore overseas work options to return to develop my first love—cartoon illustration. I am happy to pursue new opportunities in a dynamic, creative environment. I thrive under pressure to deliver high-quality work on tight deadlines, I am comfortable collaborating with technical engineers, designers and producers across international teams. If you’re looking for a versatile artist with a deep background in animation, illustration and graphic design for gaming, entertainment or publishing, I’d love to contribute to your next project.…Hello! I'm Randy Glusac, a cartoonist, illustrator, graphic artist and animator with more than thirty years of experience, spanning book illustration, television and film animation, and on-screen game graphics. I’ve collaborated with major studios and publishers, and I enjoy creating visually engaging art across styles from realistic to broad cartoon, while mentoring teams and shaping the look and feel of projects. After a career break to travel and explore overseas work options to return to develop my first love—cartoon illustration. I am happy to pursue new opportunities in a dynamic, creative environment. I thrive under pressure to deliver high-quality work on tight deadlines, I am comfortable collaborating with technical engineers, designers and producers across international teams. If you’re looking for a versatile artist with a deep background in animation, illustration and graphic design for gaming, entertainment or publishing, I’d love to contribute to your next project.

Randy Glusac

Children’s Book Illustrator, Comic Illustrator, Animator, +4

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Hello! I'm Randy Glusac, a cartoonist, illustrator, graphic artist and animator with more than thirty years of experience, spanning book illustration, television and film animation, and on-screen game graphics. I’ve collaborated with major studios and publishers, and I enjoy creating visually engaging art across styles from realistic to broad cartoon, while mentoring teams and shaping the look and feel of projects. After a career break to travel and explore overseas work options to return to develop my first love—cartoon illustration. I am happy to pursue new opportunities in a dynamic, creative environment. I thrive under pressure to deliver high-quality work on tight deadlines, I am comfortable collaborating with technical engineers, designers and producers across international teams. If you’re looking for a versatile artist with a deep background in animation, illustration and graphic design for gaming, entertainment or publishing, I’d love to contribute to your next project.…Hello! I'm Randy Glusac, a cartoonist, illustrator, graphic artist and animator with more than thirty years of experience, spanning book illustration, television and film animation, and on-screen game graphics. I’ve collaborated with major studios and publishers, and I enjoy creating visually engaging art across styles from realistic to broad cartoon, while mentoring teams and shaping the look and feel of projects. After a career break to travel and explore overseas work options to return to develop my first love—cartoon illustration. I am happy to pursue new opportunities in a dynamic, creative environment. I thrive under pressure to deliver high-quality work on tight deadlines, I am comfortable collaborating with technical engineers, designers and producers across international teams. If you’re looking for a versatile artist with a deep background in animation, illustration and graphic design for gaming, entertainment or publishing, I’d love to contribute to your next project.

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Hello! I’m Randy Glusac, a cartoonist, illustrator, graphic artist and animator with more than thirty years of experience, spanning book illustration, television and film animation, and on-screen game graphics. I’ve collaborated with major studios and publishers, and I enjoy creating visually engaging art across styles from realistic to broad cartoon, while mentoring teams and shaping the look and feel of projects. After a career break to travel and explore overseas work options to return to develop my first love—cartoon illustration. I am happy to pursue new opportunities in a dynamic, creative environment.

I thrive under pressure to deliver high-quality work on tight deadlines, I am comfortable collaborating with technical engineers, designers and producers across international teams. If you’re looking for a versatile artist with a deep background in animation, illustration and graphic design for gaming, entertainment or publishing, I’d love to contribute to your next project.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Childrens Book Illustration

Expert

Illustration

Expert

Animation

Expert

Language

English

Fluent

Work Experience

Graphic artist and illustrator at Career break and travel

May 21, 2026 - Present

From animating at Walt Disney to adapting to Adobe Creative Suite for gaming companies, I have taken time reset and return to cartoon art.

Freelance Illustrator and Designer at Freelance Illustrator and Designer

January 1, 1978 - December 31, 1991

Illustrating and design for book interiors and covers, interior layouts for a wide range of young adult and children’s books, including educational publications, plays and fiction. Publishers included Penguin Books, Longman Cheshire, Thomas Nelson, Macmillan, William Heinemann. Commissioned to illustrate news articles and editorials for The Nation Review (1978-79) and The Albury Border Morning Mail (1989-90). Guest Lecturer in illustration and design at the Phillip Institute of Technology (1981-82). Role included preparing and delivering lectures, creating programs and assignments, assessing student progress, motivating, inspiring and teaching students at first, second and third year levels.

Animator at Walt Disney Animation Australia

August 1, 1991 - May 31, 2003

Responsible for creating animation sequences in television, video and featurette productions. Part of a dedicated and creative team required to study and interpret the action and acting of one or more characters (animal and/or human) in a particular scene in collaboration with the director of the production. Along with creating the animation, the role required the ability to choreograph multi-character sequences, often utilising comic timing, acting and/or complex action. Attention to detail such as overlapping secondary action and differing weights depicted in motion was essential. Character animation included Kovu and Kiara as cubs and lions (Lion King 2, Hakuna Matata family of projects).

Senior Graphic Artist at Konami Gaming Australia

July 1, 2003 - September 30, 2007

Talent spotted to train digital artists in traditional illustration and animation, whilst transferring skills to the digital space. The brief was to create new visual concepts for poker machines and revamp and improve old games for Australian and international markets. Responsibilities included developing all aspects of illustration, decoration, animation and design, from messaging and text to banners, for on-screen video graphics. Also designed and produced poster art, including illustration, logo titles and layouts for information panels. Edited 3D video segments for promotional plasma screen presentation. Collaborated and liaised with Japanese department heads, maths designers, software engineers and graphic designers; mentored junior artists.

Senior Graphic Artist and Animator at Ainsworth Gaming Technology

September 1, 2011 - September 30, 2020

Tasked with creating new visual concepts for poker machines in the Australian, Asian, European and American markets. Responsible for developing pictorial symbols, decoration, backgrounds, animation, logos, typographical banner information and messaging for all aspects of on screen graphics. Required collaborating and liaising on a daily basis with software engineers, math designers and the game design management team.

Principal Artist at WMS Gaming Australia (now Light & Wonder)

October 1, 2007 - July 31, 2011

As principal artist, role involved creating new concepts for poker machines in the American market, ranging from symbols, decoration, backgrounds, animation, logos, typographical banner information and messaging for all aspects of on-screen graphics. In March 2009, promoted to lead a dedicated creative team, while also individually producing all elements of video graphics from concept to finished art. Required collaborating and liaising on a daily basis with company’s CEO, Chicago head office department heads, producers, software engineers, math designers and a team of graphic designers.

Lead Artist at AUS GMTC Pty Ltd

September 1, 2020 - June 30, 2024

Responsible for art direction and creating key graphic art, illustrations and animation for every aspect of the gaming graphics of the company, Reelweb, a division of Playtech.

Career Break at Self/Travel & Exploration

July 1, 2024 - May 31, 2026

Took a long-delayed career break to travel extensively and explore options for living and working from an overseas base, taking time out to return to exploring my first love, cartoon illustration.