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Sam Keiser
Sam Keiser
Concept Artist/ Illustrator - Looking for Work
Austin, United States

Summary

Looking for Work as an illustrator or Concept artist. I have industry experience working on animated shows such as Castlevania:Nocturne and RWBY. I have also done illustrations work for TTRPGS and Book Publishers like of D&D, Magic the Gathering and Penguin Random House. You can contact me at samuel.keiser@gmail.com.

Skills

Concept ArtIllustrationOil Painting3D Modeling

Software proficiency

Photoshop
Photoshop
Blender
Blender

Productions

    • TV Production
      Castlevania: Nocturne - Season 2
    • Year
      2024
    • Role
      Supervisor Background Supervisor/ Series Background Artist
    • Company
      Powerhouse Animation
    • TV Production
      Castlevania: Nocturne - Season 1
    • Year
      2023
    • Role
      Series Background Artist
    • Company
      Powerhouse Animation
    • TV Production
      gen:LOCK
    • Year
      2018
    • Role
      Background Painter
    • Company
      Rooster Teeth
    • TV Production
      Red vs. Blue
    • Year
      2018
    • Role
      Concept Artist
    • Company
      Rooster Teeth
    • TV Production
      RWBY vol. 6
    • Year
      2018
    • Role
      Concept Artist
    • Company
      Rooster Teeth

Experience

  • Illustrator at Freelance
    November 2010 - Present

    Clients Include:

    Dungeons and Dragons

    Magic the Gathering

    Penguin House Publishing

    Crunchy Roll

    Evolved Publishing

  • Series Background Supervisor at Powerhouse Animation
    Austin, US
    July 2023 - September 2024

    -Supervised for episodes 108 and 202 of Castlevania:Nocturne.

    -Worked with the Director to establish mood and style guide for the episode.

    -Gave assignments to BG team for layouts, colorscripts and Illustrations that would help guide pre-production and outsourcing.

    -Coordinated with the 3D modeling team to produce sets that helped with Storyboading, BG painting, and post-production.

    -Worked with outsourcing to ensure high quality backgrounds were being delivered.

    -Coordinated with the Compositing team and BG team in post-production to ensure final backgrounds were consistent throughout the episode.

  • Series Background Artist at Powerhouse Animation
    Austin, US
    July 2021 - July 2024

    Painting Backgrounds for the Netflix series Castlevania: Nocturne

  • Concept Artist at Rooster Teeth
    Austin
    October 2018 - September 2019

    Primarily painting environments for RWBY.

    Trying to fix problems and find solutions where I can.

  • Concept Artist at Archon Gaming
    Seattle WA, United States of America
    March 2017 - August 2017

    Illustrated and guided the visual content for the game Lords of Tylandis

  • Instructor at Georgetown Atelier
    Seattle WA, United States of America
    September 2016 - June 2017

    Digital Painting Instructor with a focus on combining a digital and traditional workflow

  • Concept Artist at Wizards of the Coast
    Seattle WA, United States of America
    February 2013 - May 2013

    Worked in-house assisting with the building of the world guide for Khans of Tarkir.