Cindy Liu

Prepress and color production professional with 9+ years leading press-ready file preparation, CMYK color matching, and print quality control, plus a decade of color-critical digital production and quality-gate leadership inside high-volume studio pipelines. Track record building SOPs and workflow templates, training and onboarding staff, and holding Delta-E accurate output across concurrent projects and hard deadlines. Comfortable translating technical print constraints into clear direction for design, production, operations, and clients.

Graphic Designer & Prepress Operator - Colormax Graphics - Los Angeles Area

(2004-07 - 2020-12)

• Performed color-critical quality control on print production runs, matching output to approved press proofs within Delta-E tolerances across 100+ concurrent print projects.
• Prepared, organized, and archived press-ready files, enforcing strict naming conventions and version control to eliminate delivery errors.
• Designed Nestle USA seasonal brochures (2006–2013) and Georgia-Pacific / Justman Packaging retail packaging, owning layout, color selection, and press-ready file preparation to spec across substrates.
• Served as primary client point of contact for spec changes, artwork revisions, and delivery readiness — the same technical-guidance and approval role this position requires.
• Directed product photo shoots for the Verdes Toys campaigns and managed multiple concurrent client accounts and deadlines.
• Logged all project tasks in a work-order system, maintaining accurate billing records and zero missed deadlines in a high-volume studio environment.

Digital Artist, Compositing — Quality Control & Workflow Standards - Marvel Animation - Los Angeles, CA / Remote

(2021-04 - 2024-11)

Marvel's What If...? (Disney+), multi-season animated series

• Acted as informal quality gate in daily review sessions alongside the supervisor, catching spec and color issues before they reached final delivery and cutting revision cycles by roughly 30%.
• Built layout, node-graph, and color-space templates adopted by a 15-person team, standardizing output and removing per-artist setup variance across an entire season.
• Decomposed complex, multi-element deliverables into sequenced sub-tasks so junior team members had unambiguous execution paths under compressed timelines.
• Delivered 500+ color-accurate final files per season to exact brand and broadcast specification across multiple concurrent formats.

2nd Lead Finaling Artist — Quality Control & Team Training - Stereo D - Burbank, CA

(2014-12 - 2018-09)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Doctor Strange, Avengers: AoU, and 20+ additional titles

• Served as the final quality gate before studio delivery, checking every shot for color consistency, spatial accuracy, and specification compliance on franchise-scale deliveries.
• Trained and onboarded incoming artists on pipeline conventions and quality standards, shortening ramp-up time during back-to-back high-volume production cycles.
• Managed color-accurate output across 20–60 simultaneous project timelines per title, tracking versions and protecting hard delivery windows.
• Escalated technical issues through internal ticketing and documented resolution steps, minimizing production downtime.

Digital Compositor — Workflow Documentation - Artemple Hollywood - Hollywood, CA

(2016-12 - 2021-02)

MANK, They Shall Not Grow Old, Mindhunter S1 & S2

• Documented new workflows and distributed standardized templates across the team, directly supporting process refinement and knowledge transfer.
• Verified system readiness, I/O, and playback before client review sessions, ensuring zero technical interruptions during creative approvals.
• Ingested and organized media across multiple simultaneous projects, maintaining consistent file-naming and folder conventions.

BS - Visual Effects & Motion Graphics - The Art Institute of California, Los Angeles

BA - Studio Art - California State University, Long Beach

Certification - User Experience Design - UCLA Extension