About
Me
I’m Jenn Padilla, a kind, curious, and overall smiley Game Designer.
I focus on storytelling as a Writer and Narrative Designer. I am also skilled in storyboards, character design, 2D art, and UX research.
There’s a rumor going around that I feed on the awe of the innocent. Supposedly I use my skills to witchcraft moments of magical feelings. Then once my entranced victim suspends their disbelief, I swoop in and steal their nose or something. You shouldn’t go believing any rumor you hear, though.
Making video games has not always been my career, but it has always been part of me. Either from making simple games in Gamemaker as a child or modding Sonic Adventure 2 so I can make pretty (or cursed) gardens for my baby chao. My senior film was going to be a video game, and I spent hours watching Game Maker’s Toolkit just for fun. Making video games has been a temptress throughout my life, and I can finally say we’re going steady.
There’s just something magical about video games. The way they talk and interact with their audience surpasses all other mediums. They leave an impression that’s unique to them. They’re the perfect vehicle for stealing noses.
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Resume
Projects
AC: New Murder
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
Director
Led the video game to completion with a small team, delegated all work, navigated limitations, ensured collaboration, and headed the project’s schedule.
Lead Writer
Wrote all in-game dialogue in ways that accentuated the character’s personalities and dynamics, created the game’s story, designed the narrative progression, and scripted boolean and integer variables in Sanity.
Lead Game Designer
Created the game's concept and the plans to bring it to life, designed the levels for both the 3D exploration and the visual-novel side, and planned and implemented the game's branching paths, mechanics, challenges, pacing, rules, and rewards
Lead Artist
Created all of the game's visual assets, illustrated 10-30 expressions for 11 different characters, redesigned pre-existing characters to fit in with the game's unique style, and prototyped the look of the UI.
UX Researcher
Gathered and managed testers for beta testing, collected and organized feedback, and implemented game changes based on feedback for an improved user experience.
Marketing Manager
Created unique posts for a social media campaign, Aligned content to different tones. From "professional" to "in character," and developed relationships for an influencer marketing campaign.
Dungeons & Dragons
Mar 2019 - Feb 2020
Dungeon Master
Scheduled, hosted, and led a team-based event that required immense team communication, creative problem-solving, and strict time management. The role required commitment, improvising, learning, writing, game designing, interactive storytelling, decision-making, conflict resolution, risk management, and probability planning. Most importantly, I designed and fostered a fun and inclusive game and environment.
Professional Experience
Freelance Artist
Self-Employed
Mar 2022 - Present
Mar 2018 - Aug 2021
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Animate, design, and storyboard clients’ requests for their Twitch/YouTube brands or animated pilots.
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Collaborated with the client and remained flexible to bring their ideas to fruition and expand upon them, often sparking new exciting ideas.
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Videos I have worked on have received millions of views.
Character Layout Artist
Warner Bros.
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
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Put all characters from "Animaniacs" and "Pinky & the Brain" on model in preparation for animation
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Used storyboarding and artistic skills to deliver appealing story/character-driven boards.
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Had a refined attention to detail and was quick to learn and adapt to the show’s unique voice.
Storyboard Artist
Swoozie
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
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Storyboard animation segments in 4–13 minute long, story-time YouTube videos.
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Work with the director, layout artist, and animators.
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Does Character Designs and Animation between storyboarding videos.
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The videos I worked on have received millions of views. Up to 5.8 million.
Color Designer
Spindlehorse Toonz
Jul 2019 - Jul 2020
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Pick out colors for various scenes in "Hazbin Hotel" 's pilot and the "Helluva Boss" series.
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Work with the director to find the desired tone of each scene and enhance those colors to create something unique.
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Go to person to make a musical number look magical.
Animator
Spindlehorse Toons
Dec 2018 - Dec 2019
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Inbetween and clean up rough animation on "Hazbin Hotel" 's and "Helluva Boss"’s pilots.
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As an Inbetween Animator, communicate with the Key Animator to stay true to their plan while adding enhancing subtleties.
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Clean up incredibly detailed characters in own and other animators' rough animations.
2D Artist
Mundo Lanugo
Sept - Dec 2017
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Storyboarded, animated, and composited three Spanish music videos.
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The music videos taught preschool children about the planets, Three King's day, and the months of the year.
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The music video I contributed to the most is one of their most popular videos, with 1.6 million views.
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Also aided the company with the images and captions, they posted on their social media accounts
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Animation
Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD)
Savannah, GA June 2017
Courses Include: Performance, Writing for Short Stories, Pitching Stories, and more.
Programs
Proficient
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Ren'Py
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Unreal Engine
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Unity
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Maya
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After Effects
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Premiere
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TVPaint
Advanced
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Photoshop
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Storyboard Pro
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Harmony