About Us
Ken is a seasoned concept and production artist, specializing in characters but with a generalist's skillset as well. His areas of expertise include 2D concept and design, 3D modeling, texturing, animation, lighting, look dev, and pre-vis. He earned a BFA in Illustration from BYU and has over 25 years of experience in the entertainment industry. His work has been published in over 20 game titles, as well as TV series, films, advertising, music videos, and in numerous magazines and books. Ken has been an active member of the Visual Effects Society since 2011.
Ken spent six years working at Electronic Arts Los Angeles as a Character Artist, Lead Character Artist, and Character Art Director. He started focusing exclusively on freelance work in late 2008. Since that time he has been designing characters and 3D modeling for the likes of A52/Elastic, The Mill, Scholar, Psyop, Ant Farm, Zoic, Yu+Co, Nike, Microsoft, Skechers, Activision, and Electronic Arts, as well as indie game studios.
He has created concept art, book illustrations, and done digital character work for numerous episodic shows, videogames, music videos, and commercials. He created box art for Disney Infinity products as well as for their E3 Expo booth (including 'Big Hero' BayMax, Marvel, and Star Wars characters!).
He has created creatures, characters, and digi-doubles for the episodic series' Hanna, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, The Good Place, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Powerless, Scandal, Arrow, Future Man, V, Once Upon a Time, and Steven Spielberg's series Falling Skies.
For videogames Apex Legends, RIOT Games, Adrift, Command and Conquer, Titanfall, FIFA, Medal of Honor, Strider, the Saboteur, Transformers, Clash of Clans, Hot Wheels, and many, many others!)
Plus show titles for 5 Came Back, Luke Cage, The Young Pope, as well as commercial projects for clients including Nike, Doritos, Meta, Activision/Blizzard, RIOT games, Samsung, Lexus, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Coke, SmartWater, Honda, Nascar, Skechers, and the NFL. He also designed the alien creature featured in the first VOID VR experience.
In his spare time he enjoys training brazilian jiu jitsu and being outdoors playing beach volleyball or surfing. He also designs and creates 3D printed jewelry and other products in collaboration with his wife.
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