ABOUT ME

I'm Bill. I'm an artist.
I own and operate Artistik Assistance, Inc.

For the past 30+ years I've been offering Artistic Assistance to contract clients in the areas of;

Illustration, Animation, Corporate Identity/branding, Print graphic design, Web design, Game design and Logo design.

Under the name Artistik Assistance, I've been fortunate enough to have worked for and with some truely amazing clients, on a number of projects.

Past notable clients include:

Over the past few years the bulk of my work has been in the gaming industry, creating themed game concepts, 2D and 3D characters design, animations and special effects for: Digital Poker, Slot Machine and E-pull tab games.

for more about my work or to see samples
ARTISTIKASSISTANCE.com

SKILLS / EXPERIENCE

I'm a self-taught traditional and digital
illustrator with above-average talent.

I'm comfortable working in a number of
styles from photo-real to cartoon.

I've produced licensed products for several globally recognized clients and created
hundreds of original characters in a varity
of styles for numerous projects.

Traditional Art

• Pencil for layout sketching, roughs, concept approval, and story boarding.
• Watercolor, colored pencil and marker for final original art pieces.

Digital Art

• Photoshop, CorelDraw, Illustrator for illustrations, photo retouching, and photo manipulation.
• Photoshop, Acrobat, CorellDraw, Illustrator, Indesign, for page layout package design and print work.
• Lightwave 3D, Premiere, After Effects, Flash/Animate for animation and video production.
• Dreamweaver, html editing, CSS development for web design.

WORK HISTORY

Artistik Assistance, Inc.

1990-Present Creating visual arts products including: Illustration, Animation, Corporate Identity / Branding, Print graphics, Web design, 3D Modeling, Video Production and post-production with After Effect.

Suntime Enterprises

1996 - Designed Licensed sports watches for all Pro sports (NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, Nascar) and college teams, as well as Print ads, packaging and point of purchase material. I also designed the 30th anniversary limited edition STAR TREK watch and custom packaging for Paramount Pictures.

Gorilla Systems

1998 - Illustrate, design graphics and animations for Mattel Media's "Talk With Me Barbie" Web site and Illustrate 2D character animation for Disney's "My interactive Winni the Pooh”

2001 - Illustrate, design graphics & animation for Disney's “Girlfriends”. Program shockwave & Flash demo games “Girlfriends”, “Monsters Inc.” & “Tinker Bell”

2006 - Produce background art, animations, and special effect art, for Gameboy Advanced and Nintendo DS games created for Disney, Pixar and others.