Senior 3D and Technical Artist Skills

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Skills as Senior 3D Artist

Modeling

Sculpting Human Body

Modeling a human body using ZSpheres, retopologizing mesh and opening UVW in Maya. Sculpting micro-detail in ZBrush. Exporting normal and displacement maps.

Sculpting Human Head

Sculpting basic detail in ZBrush, applying retopology in Maya using Quad Draw and re-importing into ZBrush for micro detail.

Modeling Mechanic Char.

Modeling a mechanic character with automatic edge loops with ZRemesher, importing as OBJ into Maya, and sculpting detail in ZBrush.

Modeling Exterior Env.

Modeling exterior environment for render time by drawing CAD floor plans and elevations, extruding quads in Maya.

Modeling Arch. Interior

Modeling architectonic interior, drawing CAD floor plan and elevations, modeling rooms and furniture using quad extrusions and NURBS in Maya.

Modeling Level Geometry

Modeling real time level geometry using CAD floor plans and elevations, blocking out meshes and adding details in 3D Studio Max with booleans and stacks.

Modeling XReality Prop

Modeling prop glasses assets for an augmented reality app. 3D scanning, adding retopology with Quad Draw in Maya, and setting up with Python tool.

Modeling Prop

Modeling a prop hand grenade asset through references, templates, schematics, modular polygons & UVW in Maya. Sculpting detail in ZBrush.

Reconstructing Photo-grammetry

Reconstructing, repairing, and cleaning up photogrammetry scan, using ZBrush Dynamesh and ZRemesher to open UVW and clean up textures.

Rendering

Texturing Character

Texturing a character for render time by opening UVW in Maya, hand painting and extracting PBR textures in Substance Designer/Painter, rendering EXR.

Rendering Interior Env.

Rendering an interior environment through animatics and concept, HDRI lighting, texturing, simulating VFX with Maya Nucleus, rendering EXR, Nuke comp.

Texturing Buildings

Texturing buildings for real time environment, modeling and UVW in 3DS Max, hand painting textures, applying to materials.

Compositing Short Film

Compositing short film using Nuke by rendering EXR and grouping background, character, volumetric lights, simulations and optical effects.

Rendering Prop

Rendering and Compositing a Prop Asset Skateboard Bag, Using Maya, ZBrush, Mental Ray, EXR, and Nuke.

Rigging

Rigging Human Body

Rigging a human body using animator friendly rigging in Maya. Torso, spine, FK/IK, neck, head, pose, fixed elbow, hand, reverse foot, independent pivots.

Rigging Human Head

Rigging a human head with FK/IK minimal joints, creating a user interface, and combining blendShapes to match an expressions sheet.

Skinning Human Body

Skinning a whole human body using Maya Muscle, attaching muscles to joints in Maya, using them as influence objects, and mixing blendShapes.

Skinning Facial Expressions

Using skinning for facial expressions, through quad retopology, minimum Maya joints, importing and combining expressions sculpted in ZBrush.

Visual Effects

Grooming Human Head

Grooming a human head using XGen in Maya, linking geometry to descriptions, simulating, caching, applying shaders, rendering and compositing.

Maya Muscle for Skinning

Simulating Maya Muscle on a rigged human character, using them as deformers on skinning and letting it drive Maya Nucleus nHair and nCloth.

Simulating Clothes

Simulating clothes using nCloth in Maya. Mesh with motion capture drives dress & necklace. Cached shirt simulation drives a vest.

VFX for Environment

Simulating nParticles and force fields in Maya for an exterior environment including wind on vegetation, air particles, volumetric lights and water.

Simulating Fluid Injection

Simulating a fluid injection for a shoe sole using nParticles in Maya. Understanding the briefing, developing simulation tactics, caching and rendering.

VFX Workflow

Letting animated characters drive VFX using Maya Nucleus, including flexible cables, molten metal, smoke, sparks, and optical effects.

Skills as Technical Artist

Programming interaction

The C++ Interface is able to identify when the player picks up an item, adds to the counter, loops remaining and sends delegates when all collected.

Implementing C++ Interface

The C++ interface becomes active when overlapping items, sends delegates when the player clicks the “E” key modifying the environment and other actors.

Delegates for UI & Gameplay

Using delegates sent by the interface to push text updates in the User Interface and trigger behaviors in the environment, like opening doors.

Adding Input Action in C++

Using the existing C++ third person character syntax to create an additional input action binding on UProperties, protected functions, and source.

Programming Gameplay C++

Programming interaction for gameplay in C++ for Unreal Engine, using an interface, delegates and 2 bases for pickups and doors.

Programming Python Tool

Programming an automation tool for Maya using Python to sort unnamed meshes into a conventional hierarchy in outliner by renaming and resetting pivots.

Skills as 2D Artist

Digital Painting for Concept

Using digital painting as a technique for rendering concept artwork, using hand painted layers, blending modes and compositing principles.

Live Portrait & Nude Drawing

Live portrait and nude drawing and sculpting samples from different workshops in Berlin and Barcelona, using different techniques, including wooden pen.

Sketching Exercises

Sketching exercises made with pencils, using photographic references to improve drawing skills. Showing landscape, architecture, still life and process.

Character Sheet for Video Game

Character sheet example from a video game project, including silhouettes, poses, expressions, clothes and gear, variations, turnaround and 3D block out.

Level Layout for Video Game

Drawing a Level layout for a video game as part of the pre production process, using CAD floor plans and elevations and blocking out the level in 3D.

Management Skills

Guidelines for Real Time

Establishing guidelines for a real time 3D production pipeline. Research, One Page Design, developing environment, characters and programming interaction.

Developing 3D Pipeline

Writing a 3D production pipeline for render time using pre-production, production, and post-production, including modeling, VFX, and compositing.

Mentoring Video Tutorials

Series of tutorial videos for junior colleagues, training on modeling, rigging and texturing assets for an augmented reality app using Maya.

Prototyping Modeling Tool

Prototyping a prop glasses modeling tool based on Maya rigging. Defining a standard workflow from existing modeling pipeline.