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11/11/2009

Pogo Mini Costume Designs









For the past few years, I have been working at Electronic Arts online casual gaming company, Pogo.com, as a staff artist. I have been primarily designing game art, costumes, backgrounds, and badges. On Monday I was laid off due to overseas outsourcing. I feel sad about this, especially since every single day I came into work feeling excited and happy about the work I was doing. I always took every single project seriously, no matter how 'small' or how 'big' the assignment was. I've always held that if an artist is a good artist, no matter what he or she touches, it should be of the highest quality and taken seriously.

I began working for Pogo/Electronic Arts as a contractor in 2003. At that time I designed some games, Canasta, Pinochle and a few others, while also providing lots and lots of artwork for various other games, like Mahjong, TriPeaks, etc. Eventually Pogo began a program called the Pogo Mini's, avatars for the users that can be customized with faces, skin color, facial expressions, hair, clothing, costumes, backgrounds, accessories, and even pets. I enjoyed this work SO much and always tried to bring interesting and fun items to our users.


10 comments:

Bill Robinson said...

Hi Julia, so sorry to hear that you were laid off. We may be hiring sometime in the future at WonderHill...you should check us out. wonderhill.com :D

Gerald de Dios said...

Julia, I love the work you've produced at Pogo, sorry hear about the lay off. I hope something turns up quickly for you.

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Judi said...

I'm sorry to see they made you remove these images! You created the best minis!

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