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I’m a passionate Visual Development Artist with a zeal for tackling design challenges and collaborating with teams to push projects forward. I excel at drafting and iterating storyboards and designs to precise specifications, value feedback, and leverage Maya and ZBrush to streamline workflows and deliver polished visuals.…

Tom Emms

Concept Artist, Illustrator, Animator, +2

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I’m a passionate Visual Development Artist with a zeal for tackling design challenges and collaborating with teams to push projects forward. I excel at drafting and iterating storyboards and designs to precise specifications, value feedback, and leverage Maya and ZBrush to streamline workflows and deliver polished visuals.…

Available to hire

I’m a passionate Visual Development Artist with a zeal for tackling design challenges and collaborating with teams to push projects forward.

I excel at drafting and iterating storyboards and designs to precise specifications, value feedback, and leverage Maya and ZBrush to streamline workflows and deliver polished visuals.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

Work Experience

Visual Development Artist at Space Bound Studios

May 1, 2023 - November 27, 2025

Developing and creating immersive concepts, storyboards/animatics, colour keys, props, characters and environments.

Visual Development Artist at Candy Castle Animation

September 1, 2022 - November 27, 2025

Creating immersive and cinematic atmosphere for various IPs; establishing character and environmental tone, mood and colour palettes ensuring elements live within the project’s storylines and genre.

Background and Layout Artist at YouTube anime series

January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2022

Working closely with the pre-visualization/ animation team to develop and paint backgrounds, iterate compositions, colour key and work with camera layouts for an anime YouTube series.

Freelance Concept Artist at Scruffy Dog Group LTD

August 1, 2019 - November 27, 2025

Finding and solving visual and practical problems; developing and sketching ideas for props, characters and environments; working toward storyboards to illustrate ideas and initial illustration compositions.

Concept Artist at Sony Pop

April 1, 2019 - April 1, 2019

Prop design for Sony TV Channel 'Pop' Easter advertisement.

Concept Artist at SMA Studios

June 1, 2020 - June 1, 2020

Visual Development. Establishing character shape language, Environmental tone, mood and colour palettes.

Background Artist at Elixir Productions

March 1, 2018 - March 1, 2018

I worked closely with the story artist helping with compositions and backgrounds for Cisco Films.