Summary
Cassandra Lee is a concept artist and illustrator based in Johannesburg South Africa. Currently she is working at Mind's Eye Creative as a character and prop designer.
Her main focus is character design.
She has one year of experience working in the animation industry, six years of experience working in the indie gaming industry and prior to that has four years of experience doing a mix of graphic design and freelance illustration. She has shipped one gaming title and had the opportunity to collaborate with another artist on the front cover of PC Gamer Magazine, August issue 2023.
In her spare time she works on her comic Woolgathering.
She obtained her Bachelor of Arts with Specialization in Multimedia through the University of South Africa.
Skills
Software proficiency
Productions
- Commercial / AdvertisementStep into Sandy’s dream closet
- Year2025
- RoleClean up artist
- CompanyMind's Eye Creative
- Video GameBroken Roads
- Year2024
- RoleConcept Artist and Illustrator
- CompanyDrop Bear Bytes
Experience
- 2D Character and Prop Designer at Mind's Eye CreativeSandton, ZANovember 2024 - Present
- Character, creature and prop design
- 2D turnarounds and clean up in Toon Boom
- Hand, mouth and eye drawing replacements
- Clean up in Toon Boom for traditional animation
Clients: GAP, Puig Rabanne, Sesame Street, Ubongo - Concept Artist and Illustrator at FreelanceMarch 2025 - August 2025
Smash Attack Studios - Pixel art icon illustration and design for Nullstar: Solus
- Concept Artist and Illustrator at Drop Bear BytesMay 2019 - October 2024
Title shipped: Broken Roads
Highlight: Collaboration with Versus Evil on the
Cover art for PC Gamer Magazine
- Prop, creature and character design; designed
main characters and the drop bear boss enemy
- Portrait, cinematic and icon illustration
- Blue sky concepting and art bible development
- Exhibited at Gamescom 2022 and participated
in interviews with the gaming press - Designer and Illustrator at GlobecreativeJohannesburg, South AfricaJanuary 2016 - June 2019
Full time position - design and illustration
Projects include:
Flat 2D visual development for mobile games, Character designs, Map design and illustration, Digital paintings, Wedding invitations, Photo-manipulation, Storyboarding, Logo design, Packaging illustration, Poster design
Among others, clients include:
Pie City, Showmax, Delicious Food Festival, 4D Healthware, Mpact, Austell
- Graphic Design Internship at Chapter 3 DesignJohannesburg, South AfricaJanuary 2015 - December 2015
Illustration work and job shadowing
Projects include:
Character designs, A weekly comic page, A billboard illustration
Clients: Bank Gaborone, University of Namibia