It would appear that Portalarium has hired someone to fill the void left by Isaac Oster’s departure. The latest update to the Shroud of the Avatar Standup Thread, the forum post that Portalarium staff use to log their daily activities, mention is made of a new animator: Melissa Soest.

She evidently got her start in the gaming industry in 2007, working as a background artist and animator at Ready at Dawn Studios. She left Ready at Dawn in 2010 and moved over to Edge of Reality Studios thereafter, where she worked for several years as a 3D animator as well. Her animation reel on YouTube (embedded above) lists The Sims 3: Pets, God of War: Chains of Olympus, and God of War: Ghost of Sparta as projects she has worked on prior to Shroud of the Avatar.