CAREENA KINGDOM
Senior Animator
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
As senior animator on Blizzard Entertainment's Heroes of the Storm development team,
Careena Kingdom is responsible for bringing the characters in the company’s online team brawler
to life through movement. This movement includes everything from the way a characters stands,
fights, fidgets, runs, and even the way they dance. Research is an important facet of her job, as the
history of a character can greatly inform their animations and many characters have well-known
and established lore and backstories within their respective Blizzard game universes that players
know and recognize.
Kingdom joined Blizzard Entertainment in 2012 as an animator on the StarCraft II
development team working on the Heart of the Swarm expansion. She then transitioned to the
Heroes of the Storm team and was promoted to senior. She briefly returned to her StarCraft roots
to animate a boss battle sequence in StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void, though her focus is almost
entirely on Heroes of the Storm. Before joining Blizzard, Kingdom worked on a handful of other
games including Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender, Dreamworks’ Megamind, and
Marvel’s The Avengers.
In her spare time, Kingdom enjoys sculpting, drawing, puppet building, and all things
miniature.
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