RESUME

YVONNE MOJICA

CREATIVE DIRECTOR, DESIGNER & ILLUSTRATOR

YM_Work@Yahoo.com  |  www.YvonneMojica.com

Designer of Successful Creative Concepts for Use in Media & Sales

Creative leader with a versatile skill set in a variety of artistic and technical disciplines. Extensive experience developing winning creative content for employers and their clients. I am a collaborative and highly productive team member, who loves to work with others to solve creative challenges. I’m very comfortable working as a member of a creative group or as a lone individual to support a remote team, to achieve my employers’ objectives and visions.

KEY SKILLS

  • Identifying and Initiating Creative Solutions
  • Strategic Business Development
  • Strategic Content Development
  • Offering and Following Creative Direction

KEY CREATIVE SKILLS

  • Photo-Realistic Concept Mockups
  • Sketch Renderings / Realistic Illustration
  • Celebrity Caricature and Cartooning
  • Artistic Photoshopping, High Fashion Photo Re-Touching and Photo Editing
  • Branding Design
  • Package Design and Production
  • Logo / Signage Design and Production
  • Copy Writing, Article Authoring,  Screenwriting and Music Composition

WORK EXPERIENCE

Lead Computer Artist / Designer | New York, NY | June 2016 – April 2022

CBS – BULL TV Series

  • Set Design & Set Decoration
  • Photo-Realistic Renderings of Set Designs
  • Creating Production Work-Flow Guidelines for Crew to Follow
  • Logo Design
  • Signage Design and Production
  • Package Design and Production
  • Graphic Design for Post Production
  • Photo-Realistic Renderings of Set Destruction for Post Production

Lead Computer Artist / Graphic Designer | New York, NY | 2015 – 2016

NETFLIX – UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT TV Series

  • Creative and Realistic Photoshopping
  • Parody Graphics, Parody Logos & Humorous Package Design
  • Cartooning, Celebrity Caricatures and Multi-Media Illustration
  • Animation (Using Aftereffects & Flash)
  • Animation Design for Post Production

Lead Graphic Designer & Animator | New York, NY | Oct. 2006 – January 2016

NBC – 30 ROCK TV Series

  • Corporate Parody Design, Illustration & Animation for all departments
  • Creative and Realistic Photoshopping
  • Animation and Animation Design for Post Production

Lead Graphic Designer | New York, NY | 2006 – 2011

Various Major Motion Pictures & Independent Films

  • Graphic Design and Production for Set Dressing, Props and Post Production

Supporting Graphic Designer | New York, NY | 2000 – 2022

Various Network Television Shows – ABC, NBC, HBO, MTV and More

  • Featured Graphic Design and Production for Graphic-Driven Hero Storylines

Web Designer, Content Producer and Writer | New York, NY | July 2001 – Nov 2004

Lagardere & Hachette Filipacchi Media

  • Design Programming Concepts and Creative for key A&M and Sales Objectives
  • Client Communications in development of creative strategic partnerships
  • Development of creative for the U.S. Television Expansion of Lagardere Brands 
  • Photo editing and photo optimization for ELLE.com
  • Initiated Mentorship of Print Photo Editor to empower her with Web Skills to improve quality and productivity for ELLE.com to achieve Fashion Week content delivery and traffic goals.
  • Copywriting and article authoring for editorial content for Premiere.com, ELLE.com ELLEgirl.com, CarandDriver.com and WomansDay.com
  • Developed printable character-driven games and craft projects and launched the first online Printables Business Model on WomansDay.com. 
  • Further developed Printables as a creative sales concept in partnership with Pepperidge Farms that greatly increased interactivity on the client’s site as well and inspired a generation of women to become printable designers themselves. Today countless women use and sell Printables as a way to stay organized and to generate incomes for their families.

Graphic Designer | New York, NY | 2000 – 2001

Comedy Central – The Upright Citizens’s Brigade TV Series

  • Graphic, Logo and Package Design for Props, Set Dressing and Costumes
  • Animation Design for use in Post Production

Creative Director – Lead Web Designer | New York, NY | August 1997 – Fall 2000

Cybergrrl, Webgrrls, Femina

  • Produced and Illustrated the Adventures of Cybergrrl, the very first interactive comic strip created for and published on the Internet
  • Established and managed the creative direction of key web design and community features 
  • Design of Programming Concepts and Creative Content for key A&M and Sales Objectives
  • Curated editorial content internally and for clients to achieve branding and traffic goals
  • Curated advertorial content to achieve branding and traffic goals for clients including but not limited to Avon, Estee Lauder, Planned Parenthood of NYC, and Jane Cosmetics.
  • On-The-Road reporter traveling with Lilith Fair Women’s Rock Festival producing celebrity interviews, articles and graphics for a strategic creative content partnership with Lilith Fair.

ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

Stand-Up Comedian | New York, NY | 2000 – 2006

Comic Book Creator | New York, NY | 1990s

Off-Broadway Stage Set Design | New York, NY | 1990s

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Adobe Creative Suite, iMovie Video Editing, WordPress, Google Workspace, Microsoft Office Suite, GarageBand Music Composition, Nomad 3D Sculpting

EDUCATION

  • Art Students’ League, Independent Studies 1995 -1997
  • BCAT Studio Production License Courses: Directing Live to Tape and Remote TV Production 2001