Saber Armitstead

Leading Through innovation

★ Agency-Ready Portfolio
-Art directed and delivered creative across board games, Steam game mods, Kickstarter campaigns, social media platforms, and conventions. Each context required rapid concepting, brand-consistent execution, and the ability to present and defend creative decisions to stakeholders —

★ Hands-On + Leadership: Art directed and delivered creative across board games, Steam game mods, Kickstarter campaigns, social media platforms, and conventions. Each context required rapid concepting, brand-consistent execution, and the ability to present and defend creative decisions to stakeholders —

Design Director & Art Director Manager • Break From Reality Games | Seattle, WA

★ Art directed published board game titles across the full pipeline — concept through print-ready delivery — maintaining brand and franchise cohesion across an international distributed team
Published titles include Disaster Looms!, CEO's & Corporations, Ricochet Rock Jockeys, Damage Report!, and Grip Mats — each requiring character design, card/board illustration, packaging, and marketing assets

Art Team & Department Manager • Quixotic Cloud Games | International/Remote

★ Led multi-department art team on Steam game mods for Ark: Survival Evolved and XCOM2 (Dragonpunk franchise) — directing character design, creature concept art, environment assets, storyboards, and UI

CGI 3D Design Lead • Caterpillar Inc. | Remote (Contract)

★ Scale & Pipeline: Led 6-person CGI illustration team producing 50,000+ digital product catalog assets in 18 months. Identified technology bottleneck, built business case, drove upgrade that increased weekly output from 200 to 2,000 images (10x). Created best practices documentation and new-hire onboarding that cut ramp time from 5 weeks to 2.