Nicholas Kole is a freelance character designer, comic artist, and illustrator with 8 years of experience in bringing fantasy worlds to life through animated shows, comics, video games and children's books.
Kole started his career as a character designer at MIT’s GAMBIT Games Lab. He later joined 38 Studios to work on the cancelled Project Copernicus — an MMO title set in the world of Kingdoms of Amalur.
Nowadays, he draws dragons and wizards, but not exclusively, for companies from all around the industry. These include Disney (The Curse of Maleficent, Pete's Dragon: The Lost Years), Hasbro (Play-Doh Touch), Mattel, Warner Bros., Riot Games (League of Legends), Spiritwalk Games (Shardbound), Dark Horse Comics, Electronic Arts (Dawngate, The Dawngate Chronicles). He also worked with Kazu Kibuishi on the Flight anthology.
He is currently lead production designer at Shining Isle Productions on the animated show The Wingfeather Saga, as well as running his personal art project, The World of Jellybots, on Patreon.
