Mihai Pana
about
I am a passionate and versatile artist who is set out to be involved in the creation of the best and innovative games in the world. I feel that the gaming industry and community have offered me so much to a point where I am compelled to offer something back in return.
For the past several years I've been fortunate enough to be surrounded by amazing and talented people, sharing my desire to offer their creativity and brilliance to the gaming community.
If I were to pinpoint the traits which brought me success in my role as Lead Artist, I would definitely mention the following behaviors:
I always seek opportunities to learn new ways of doing things through new experiences and interactions with others.
I aim to always follow through on my commitments while maintaining a positive and agile mindset, which helps me navigate effectively through change or ambiguity.
I am comfortable and confident to make decisions and I usually go beyond traditional approaches in order to find solutions for complex problems.
I like to foster knowledge and experience sharing and I proactively engage and include others to iterate on ideas and recommendations.
I have a good understanding of how our behavior can positively or negatively influence others and that's why I am keen on resolving interpersonal conflicts constructively and encourage others to do it as well.
I keep myself informed about the evolving and emerging practices, tools, and standards in my team's field of expertise and try to question existing methods and tools with the purpose of finding better ways of doing things.
Software I use:
Books I can recommend:
Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice
This book helped me build a strong design and art vocabulary
Architecture: Form, Space, and Order
This book gave me an insight into how shapes can be structured and organized in order to encompass space. I've learned much about the sense of scale and proportion and how to apply these notion in our work
Introduction to Residential Layout
This book depicted the logic and common practices behind building an authentic residential Layout.
Shaping Interior Space
This book helped me understand how space can be linked to an emotion. And how factors such as Novelty and Structure can influence the player's perception and orientation.
Patterns in Nature
This book tries to explain why certain things are perceived as being esthetic. The justification dives deep into the roots of human pattern perception and how nature uses a discreet list of types of patterns to obtain its variety.