As a team member with a hybrid (lead artist, producer) project role, this project presented opportunities for me to help solve several challenges:

• Short development time, with plenty of assets to create and not much room for error. I took on a producer role by interfacing directly with our Disney producer and maintaining our Jira database. With a solid process in place, we were able to hit our quality and launch date goals.

• Multiple IP’s to launch with, with each IP having very specific brand guidelines to abide by. Considering the short development time, we needed to get IP stakeholder approvals early. I established an art approval process that works well with our client and delegated the art submission task to our senior concept artist to help streamline the process.

• Numerous (hundreds!) interactive elements that needed to be set up in Unity. I worked with engineers to brainstorm and refine tools and processes that can help get game-ready art assets set up in game more quickly and with minimal user error.

• Onboarding a contract animator to the project. This was this animator’s first experience working in Unity. I worked closely with the animator and an engineer to define our character animation and clothing customization pipelines.

• Onboarding an intern illustrator to the project. Their art style was a perfect fit, but they had no experience working on a game project before. I was responsible for mentoring the artist so they can prepare game-ready art assets and also learn some in-engine work during their short internship at the studio.

While the UI in “World of Play” is relatively minimal and was straightforward to set up, I had a lot of fun playing with low effort and high impact polish touches using assorted techniques in Unity—particle effects, sprite shaders, and tweens—to add a layer of liveliness in menus and playsets.