Anya R Hueing

Anya Rose Hueing is a jack-of-all-trades artist who manages her fellow developers while building levels and painting fantastical places and lifeforms. She has thrived as a freelance illustrator and animator since 2011 and has been active in the games industry since 2019 as a Producer and Artist on Second Star. A student of nature and fiction, she can also be found caring for her noodledog, cats, and various plants, drawing monsters and animal people, drumming, playing board games, writing, and hanging out with trees. She’s also very fond of robots, accordions, and mountains, and was named after an alien from a Star Trek episode.

Second Star 2019 - Present • Producer & Artist

Paint mood and aesthetic concepts and draw orthographic reference art
Build levels in Unity including blockmeshing, terrain sculpting, texture painting, colliders and hotspots
Lead organization of weekly sprint tasks for our team, create gantt charts, milestone and progress documents, and facilitate communication between departments
Run level design meetings and draw clear level maps to convey design intentions to the writers and programmers
Convey environmental storytelling with asset placement, lighting, and particle effects
Sculpt high poly of landscape features in Blender
Animate cutscenes, player movement, and interactions in Unity
Write dialogue and branching talks for ANAVI, the ship’s navigational AI
Create UI assets such as inventory and map icons; cleanup and slice UI elements for implementation
Draft technical design documents on level navigation specs, puzzles, and mechanics
Edit promotional materials such as story and teaser trailers, posters, and banners

Freelance Artist 2011 - Present • Artist

Create custom illustrations and animations for private clients

Paintings
Character design references
Comic pages
Book covers
Product design
Promotional materials

Stream artwork creation to receive live feedback and interact with an audience
Maintain an inventory of prints and knick-knacks for sale at convention events
Manage and promote freelance business

Kaman’s Art Shoppes 2005 - 2006 • Portrait Artist

Drew guests from life within a specified style and time constraint

Concept Art
Character and Environment Illustration
Communication and Collaborative Organization
Agile Methodology
Storyboarding and Sequential Art
Grayboxing / Blockmeshing
Sculpting
Drawing and Inking
Digital and Traditional Painting
2D, 3D, and Stop Motion Animation
Video and Sound Editing
Prose, Script, and Tech Writing
QA Testing and Bug Tracking

Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, Animate, Illustrator, XD, and Dreamweaver
Unity, Unity ProBuilder, Unity Adventure Creator
Paint Tool SAI
Blender
3D Studio Max
SketchUp
TVPaint
Final Cut Pro and ProTools
Sony ACID Pro, Propellerhead Reason, Audacity
Google Docs
Git, ClickUp, Asana, JIRA
OpenOffice Suite

Maryland Institute College of Art B.F.A Graduate
Magna Cum Laude, Class of 2011 Baltimore, MD

Major in Experimental Animation
Minor in Creative Writing
Concentration in Video

John Hopkins University Intro to Video Game Design, Spring 2009 Baltimore, MD

Fachhochschule Schwäbisch Hall Study Abroad Program, Spring/Summer 2010 Schwäbisch Hall, Germany

The act of storytelling has long impressed me with its power - the power to provoke empathy, incite change, explore the self, and provide an escape. Over the course of my life I learned a great deal from film, comics, games, and books. I desire to give back to others for all the adventures that helped shape and support me, and find it fulfilling to work with creative, collaborative teams bringing new universes to life.