About Me

Hello there!

I've studied communication design and achieved my bachelor of arts in 2020. I am a passionate storyteller and love every opportunity to bring in my creativity and my skills in storytelling. This might be the reason I mainly focussed on making shortfilms and 2D animations in my first study.

My name is Mandy and I was born in 1998. I am a game design student and an artist from Aachen (Germany).

Over the years I've gained workexperience as a graphic designer in different companies. In the end of 2021 I've decided to study game design, because I am a big nerd and it was always my biggest dream to work in a game dev studio.

About

Name: Mandy Kricke
Residence: Aachen | Germany
Mail: mandy.kricke-design@hotmail.com
Born: 16.03.1998
Drivers License: Class B

Education

A-Levels (2008 - 2016)
Goethe-Gymnasium Stolberg

Bachelor Of Arts (2016 - 2020)
Communication Design | FH Aachen

2nd Bachelor Of Arts (expected in spring 2025)
Game Design | HMKW Cologne

Languages

◉ English
◉ German (native language)

Softwares
◉ Adobe Photoshop
◉ Adobe Illustrator
◉ Adobe InDesign
◉ Premiere Pro
◉ After Effects
◉ Blender
◉ Unreal Engine 5

Key Achievements

2024

Design of multiple booths around the globe
build a rocket GmbH

2023

#2 - Media Award | media competition
Media University Cologne

2020

#1 - Showtime | short film competition
FH Aachen

Work-Experience

2024 - 2024 (6 months)

Internship | 3D Art & VFX
build a rocket GmbH (e-sports agency)

Designing booths for the LEC, EWC & Gamescom and creating high quality 3D mockups
Animating assets for streaming events
Storyboarding and Art Direction of an ad series

since 2021

Working Student | Motion graphics
build a rocket GmbH (e-sports agency)

Animating assets for streaming events
Storyboarding
Video editing
Illustration
Designing booths and creating high quality 3D mockups in Blender
Modelling assets for motion graphics in Blender

2021 - 2021 (8 months)

Graphic designer
3PAGEN GmbH (shipping and trading)

Designing the companies catalogs
Developing a new grid system to improve the working speed

2020 - 2020 (3 months)

Working Student | Graphic design
RWTH Innovation GmbH

Creating graphics for social media
Updating the website
Creating 2D animations for social media

2019 - 2020

Working Student | Graphic design
Neublck GmbH & Co.KG (ad agency)

Logo design
Creating graphics for social media
Editorial

2016 - 2023

Freelancer | Graphic design
VER-BAU GmbH (builing renovation)

• Creating a corporate design
• Designing all printed ad products, car
wrappings, documents, contracts and signs

Favorite Games

◉ Life Is Strange (all of them)

◉ Baldurs Gate 3

◉ Outer Wilds
◉ The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim
◉ Detroit Become Human

◉ Beyond Two Souls

◉ Dragon Age Origins & Inquisition

◉ Gris