Liz Richards
Art Director at Ravensburger North America, Inc.
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiz Richards is an Art Director and visual designer with 10+ years shaping immersive themed entertainment and attraction experiences for clients like Walt Disney Imagineering, SeaWorld, and Hershey. She combines production and concept art, previs animation, and blacklight/special effects expertise to shepherd projects from early concept through final art direction. Founder of Liz Richards Design and former senior art director at Zeitgeist, she balances hands-on digital painting and sculpting with leadership of cross-disciplinary teams. As a professor and MFA candidate from SCAD, she also translates professional practice into curriculum and mentorship. Based in Irvine, California, Liz’s work uniquely blends scientific precision from early botanical illustration with cinematic storytelling for large-scale attractions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Animation, Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Animation at Savannah College of Art and DesignBachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Animation, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Animation at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (6)
encoding9
testing8
ffmpeg8
python5
parsing5
frame4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
richardssam/ffmpeg-tests
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:326 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 3 months
vfxtestingstandardsencodingreview
AcademySoftwareFoundation/EncodingGuidelines
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
This site provides guidelines for encoding frames to movie files for review.
Contributions:33 commits in 12 days
aswfencodingffmpegocio
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