Calysta Long is a visual development artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a B.F.A. in Illustration with a focus on concept art for animation and games. Calysta has worked on student film Plant Lady and student game Mind the Abyss and is currently working as an Art Director on indie animated short Wulf. She works on all aspects of visual development, focusing on character and environmental design with an interest in cutscene storyboarding.

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Magic, fantasy, and raw emotion. I combine the fantastical with the deepest questions of humanity and morality to ask the viewer what they see in the world and what they can do to change it. I want to empower gamers of every walk of life by creating worlds where they can see themselves while telling stories that leave you thinking about them for months.

Environments have a unique way of telling a story about a world that words and acting alone can never achieve. I create these stories through visuals so that the player can be immersed without a word ever being said.