Dara Gold

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About Dara Gold

Dara Gold is an award winning artist, illustrator and game developer from Toronto Canada working in the animation, IDM and video game industries. She makes art with tea and is the first person to put Stephen Hawking into a videogame. Highly creative, Dara excels at working with a team, and independently taking charge of projects large and small. She has exhibited and sold artwork at conventions and galleries within Canada and internationally. Adobe Creative Suite, Flash, Multidisciplinary artistic background Illustration, concept art, design, style guides, graphic / web design services, and UX design Video game and character development, paintings, and multi-faceted marketing campaigns Ability to give and receive criticism with strong attention to detail and artistic merit Quick turnaround and iterations 2014 Guest artist / mural designer for Maurice Cody Public School 2014 GAAM international charity art auction participant 2013 GAAM international charity art auction participant 2013 Outstanding Achievement Award presented by the IMA for BennettGold's "Moving the Needle" website. 2012 Finalist International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge for PI institute's "Black Hole Explorer" 2010 San Diego Comic-Con souvenir book, Peanuts 60th anniversary illustration 2009 San Diego Comic-Con souvenir book, TMNT 25th anniversary lead illustration 2009 Lead designer of the MINI Vaughn West 50th Anniversary MINI for the ‘GTA MINI Design Challenge.’ 2013 TOJAM, art lead for small team creating the game “Autocorrect Text Adventure” 2012 TOJAM, art lead for small team creating the game “Wheat Wars” 2012 Toronto Global Game Jam, art lead for a small team creating the game “Phoenix Snake” 2011 TOJAM, art lead for small team creating the game “A Wizard’s Never Late”