Artists

Grace Yang

I'm Grace Yang, and I'm currently a senior at Otis College of Art and Design, studying to be a visual development artist for animation and games. Other than drawing, I love sunny days and reading books, mostly fantasy or dystopian genres. My weakness are bunnies. I helped with character designs and prop designs for Social Clues.

Kellie Liang

Kellie Liang is a 2D and 3D character animator at Otis College of Art and Design. Raised in the Bay Area, she came to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the entertainment art industry. Her dream is to combine her art with education. Kellie contributed clean up work for Social Clues. More of her work can be found at http://www.kellieliang.com.

Amy Yamasaki

Amy Yamasaki is a character animator and artist. She is currently a senior in Digital Media at Otis College of Art and Design. For Social Clues, she contributed facial expressions and cleanup work. She has a passion for fun projects that are not only entertaining but educational, like Social Clues. Her 2D and 3D animation work can be found at http://amyyamasaki.com.

Andrew Sakata - Art Director

Andrew Sakata is an illustrator and animator attending Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. Andrew is an art director on Social Clues, doing things from visual development to animation and character design. Andrew specializes in cute adorable things, generally aimed at a younger audience, but with nuance and design that appeals to an older audience as well. His work can be found here: http://asakata.daportfolio.com/

Jun Baik

Hello, my name is Jun Baik, a 3rd year USC student studying Animation. I’ve been contributing a bunch of concept art for both characters and mini games alike for SocialClues, and I hope to draw more awesome things for the team in the future. As one might expect I enjoy playing video games whenever I find time, but I also read comics, draw comics, daydream about story ideas, cook, and participate in bunch of other creative distractions.

Camille Kanengiser

Camille Kanengiser is an undergraduate Animation student at USC's School of Cinematic Arts and is working on Social Clues as a 2D artist.

Alan Klug

Alan Klug is a visual development artist from Los Angeles, CA. He currently attends Otis College of Art and Design. He worked as a concept artist doing backgrounds, cleanups, as well as character designs for the Social Clues project. Alan is glad to have worked with such a great team. Link: Behance.net/alandklug.

Christina Lee

Hi! My name is Christina Lee, and I’m a junior majoring in Fine Arts, emphasis in Design, with a minor in Animation at the University of Southern California. I am a 2D artist on Social Clues and have designed minigames and some user interface elements that you see in the game, such as buttons, icons, and backgrounds. I love playing games, so it was only natural that I helped create one. I hope that in the future, I’ll be able to work on a project as a lead artist or art director.

Cathleen McAllister

I’m Cathleen! I’m from Seattle, but I now live in Westchester with my bearded dragon, Harry. I’m a sophomore at Otis College of Art and Design, majoring in Digital Media. I worked as a 2D character artist for Social Clues. I hope to be a character or environment concept artist for video games, because I love playing games!

Lauren Benavides - Art Director

Laure Benavides is a senior at Laguna College of Art and Design majoring in Animation. She is an art director on Social Clues and has worked towards setting the art style of the game's characters. She leads the art team in creating cute and appealing characters for the game as well as keeping the art consistent between artists. Lauren has a great passion for kids games and she is incredibly happy to be working on Social Clues.

2D Artists

Max Rubin

Max Rubin graduated in May of 2013 from the Animation and Digital Arts program of USC's Film School. 3D character animation and storytelling are his specialties, but he also enjoys many other disciplines of 3D film making. He is currently living and freelancing in Los Angeles, and you can email him at mlanskyrubin@gmail.com.

Yves Jacques Clement

Hello, my name is Yves Jacques Clement and I am an undergraduate student At Otis College of Art and Design in the Digital program. I am contributing to Social Clues as a modeler and texture Artist. I was born in Haiti and moved to the United States 10 years ago and I recently moved to California to pursue my career in art. My hobbies are drawing, photography, movies, filming, food and sports. I am very excited to be on this team and enjoy what I am doing.