Ziyan Pan

Ziyan Pan, artist name Pansy. I graduated with distinction (Top 10% of my class) from Concordia University's Painting and Drawing program in 2025 and am currently studying Computation Arts. I am a passionate digital illustrator with a strong foundation in both traditional and digital art.

During the 2023 GMTK Game Jam, I was responsible for gameplay design, illustration, and animation. Our game ranked in the Top 200 worldwide among nearly 7,000 participants. I have over three years of professional experience.

Since 2023, I have worked as a Game Artist at Technodramatists, creating animations, illustrations, and contributing to programming tasks. I am also a professional illustrator for the nonprofit game project Notanote, where I create illustrations, design characters, and contribute to English localization. I specialize in concept art, illustration, storyboarding, and graphic design, and I am proficient in Unity, Blender, Figma, Procreate, Max/MSP, C++, C#, JavaScript, and HTML.

I am passionate about telling meaningful stories through game art and am eager to contribute my creativity and technical skills to a game studio.

Digital Illustrator - Technodramatists - Montreal, QC

(2023-09)

• Worked as a part time artist for augmented reality company Technodramatists, and experienced working with artistic ai video tools such as runway, ebsynth etc. Worked with augmented reality tool Artivive.
• Participated in the development of a video game, was in charge of making majority of the 2d art assets and animation.

Digital Illustrator and localization - Notanote

(2023-02)

Joined the production crew of non-profit rhythm game project Notanote.

• Head of digital illustration
• Localized in-game text from Chinese into English.
• Contributed to coding, illustration, game art design, localization translation and participated in game quality testing.

Visual Artist - Art Matters - Montreal, QC

(2023-03 - 2023-03)

Participated as a visual artist in the exhibition "Wish I Could Fly", held by art organization "Art Matters".

Participant - Runway

(2023-10 - 2023-10)

Participated in the 48-hour ai video generating competition held by Runway, worked in a team of 4.

Participant - Global gamejam

(2024-01 - 2024-01)

Participated in 48-hour gamejam. Submitted work titled "Big Sad".

• Contributed to art, animation and coding.

Participant - JACHacks

(2024-05 - 2024-05)

Participated in hackathon held by John Abbott College. Participated in the development of an ai language learning tool.

Participant - Pirate gamejam

(2024-07 - 2024-07)

Participated in 2-week length gamejam. Submitted work titled "DeadiCated".

• Contributed to art, animation and level design

Participant - Shanghai Kururu

(2024-07 - 2024-07)

Was invited as a participant as one of the producers of the game Notanote.

Participant - L'Oreal

(2025-02 - 2025-02)

Participated in Brandstorm held by L'Oreal.

• Contributed to product package design, 3d modeling and posters

Game Artist - GMTK GameJam

(2026-07 - 2026-07)

Participated in 72-hour gamejam. Submitted work titled "Shot Down".

• Contributed to concept art, animation and UI design.

Game Artist - Ubisoft

(2026-01 - 2026-04)

Participating in Ubisoft gamejam 2026 as a part of the Concordia team.

• Contributing to concept art, animation and Ui design

Game Artist - GMTK GameJam

(2023-07 - 2023-07)

Participated in 48-hour gamejam. Submitted work titled "The taiko Drum that hates Pain".

• Was the sole artist who was in charge of concept art, animation and UI design.
• Out of nearly 7000 submissions, our game ranked in the top 200.

Bachelor in Fine Arts - Painting and Drawing - Concordia University (2025)

Double Major - Computation Arts - Concordia University

DEC - Art, Literature and Science - John Abbott College (2022-07)

High School Diploma - Kuper Academy (2019-07)