About
Sean ‘Eloh’ Allum
Art Director, Game Designer, Artist
Sean Allum is an art director and production lead with 17 years in game art and game design. He sets the look of a project and can take any asset to final in any format: painted in 2D, sculpted/modeled and textured in 3D, rigged and animated and optimized for games across platforms. For the last four years he has art directed a variety of projects simultaneously across companies including Sophiaverse, Hyperlux Studios, and Eloh Labs.
At Hyperlux Studios, which he co-founded, he is art director and game designer on three Stake Engine titles: Kingdom Cascade, Doomsday Prepper Rich, and Tilt. Kingdom Cascade earned a 3/3 Stake internal review. Earlier he was VP of Game Design and Art Director at Sophiaverse, where he led design and helped build SAIL, the Sentience AI Lab, an immersive, gamified AI-training environment where players provide support and companionship to Sophia the Robot to expand her knowledge and capabilities. The project was handed to SingularityNET for deep research and further development and integration with Hyperon. He shipped seven hidden-object games with Big Fish as a game artist for Freezetag Games, created interoperable metaverse avatars for Somnium Space and earned a Technical Excellence Award for his avatar work in Monaverse. In addition to games he produced commercial 3D sculptures for Rare Culture’s redesign of Hard Rock Casino.
Sean works primarily in Photoshop, ZBrush, After Effects and Blender, and uses Antigen, an image studio he built, to accelerate ideation and rapidly establish the look of a project. He is experienced with traditional mediums, industry-standard digital tools, and emerging technologies alike.
Before games he spent five years with Starbucks Coffee, leading the flagship Fashion Island store in Newport Beach, California. That is where he learned to run a team under pressure, keep quality consistent, and improve immersive experiences day after day and month after month.
- Art Director and Game Designer, Hyperlux Studios: Kingdom Cascade, Doomsday Prepper Rich, Tilt (Stake Engine)
- VP of Game Design and Art Director, Sophiaverse / SAIL
- Art Director, Mindframe
- Concept and production artist, Game Designer Freezetag Games produced by Big Fish Games and Activision (seven shipped HOPA titles)
- VR avatar design, Somnium Space
- SuperRare top 0.1% artist
- Creator of Antigen Frontier and Antigen Mutation
Companies and collaborators include Sophiaverse, SingularityNET, Big Fish, Stake, AlphaTON, Activision, Nickelodeon, Somnium Space, Rare Culture, and OpenAI.
From Artist to Art Director
I started my career as a game artist, but I was never particularly interested in staying inside one discipline. I wanted to understand how characters, environments, UI, animation, gameplay, and story worked together—and why some projects felt like a single world while others felt like a collection of assets.
That curiosity gradually moved me from making individual pieces of games to establishing the visual systems connecting them.
Over the past 17+ years, I’ve worked across concept art, 2D and 3D production, UI/UX, animation, game design, and creative production. I’ve built assets myself, developed art bibles and production pipelines, directed internal and external artists, and carried visual ideas from early concept through implementation.
That breadth shapes how I approach Art Direction today. I like to stay close enough to production to understand the problems artists are actually solving while keeping sight of the larger visual language of the project.
More recently, that same curiosity has taken me into generative AI and creative-tool development. I built Antigen out of problems I encountered in production: maintaining quality, correcting generated imagery, keeping workflows organized, and getting usable assets across the finish line. I see that work as an extension of Art Direction, not a replacement for the artists, judgment, and craft at the center of it.
I’m currently open to Art Director and senior creative leadership opportunities, particularly in games and interactive entertainment.
San Antonio, TX / On-site/Remote/Hybrid
elohpro@protonmail.com