Experience

• Principal 3D environment artist at Kokku

  Recife, Brazil

  December 2021 - January 2023

  Responsibilities:
  
  - Work with clients to create high quality environments and assets following the art direction.
  
  - Have ownership and be responsible for whole environments.
  
  - Act on feedback to bring production to a AAA quality in an iterative manner.
  
  - Collaborate with other disciplines such as character, lighting and VFX artists to create a AAA game experience.
  
  - Helping with the planning and estimation of work.
  
  - Training and giving constructive feedback to junior and mid level artists.
  
  - Engage with clients on calls to review/discuss project progress, showing a deep understanding of their creative needs, expectations, and timelines.
  
  - Support the recruitment of additional high-quality artistic talent for the studio.

• Contract Senior 3d environment artist at Digital Dimension Entertainment Group

  Remote, Brazil

  August 2021 - September 2021

  Responsibilities:
  
  - Take ownership of two environments from start to finish
  
  - Apply best practices, production pipelines and workflows into work
  
  - Understanding about composition and visual story telling and translating the art director vision to the final product.
  
  - Working with a time constraint managing the best approaches to every day's challenges
  
  - Working in collaboration with animators and tech artist to ensure a good optimization of a real-time cutscene while delivering the best visuals possible.

• Freelance Senior 3D environment artist at Hype Animation

  Remote, Brazil

  August 2021 - September 2021

• Environment Artist at Fira Soft

  Brasília, Brazil

  May 2019 - April 2020

  I was working as a concept artist and start shifting to a full time 3d environment artist. While I was in charge of creating concept art for Fira, I also aid the environment production and learned from my colleagues. Fira had a small and welcoming team, that's why I consider myself more an environment rather than a concept artist for this position.

  Responsibilities:
  
  - Take ownership of a graphic overhaul on the company's original IP, Kriophobia.
  
  - Create concept art for environments, characters and villains.
  
  - Implement and incorporate feedback from producers and leads into work.
  
  - Work independently on asset sets.
  
  - Create environments in tight collaborations with Level Designers.
  
  - Reference game design documents to develop an understanding of the environments, objectives, atmospheres, story and style of the project.
  
  - Create efficient UV layouts that work well within the engine constrains.
  
  - Create hand painted textures for assets and environments.

• Concept Artist at The Balance Inc

  Brasília, Brazil

  September 2012 - August 2015

  Responsibilities:
  
  - Create visuals for the main character.
  
  - Develop a compelling style similar to popular Japanese action shows (tokusatsu).
  
  - Texture the 3d environment.
  
  - Work closely with designers and art director on the pre-production stage.

• Lead Artist at Tree House Studios

  Brasília, Brazil

  February 2018 - April 2019

  Responsibilities:
  
  - Create visuals for characters and villains.
  
  - World-build a transmedia universe.
  
  - Create visuals for creatures and monsters.
  
  - Develop a compelling visual style.
  
  - Texture 3d characters.
  
  - Participate in photogrammetry studies for asset and texture production.
  
  - Train and encourage junior artists.

• Art Teacher at Game Academy

  Brazil

  April 2015 - January 2016

• Manga illustrator at Kinkoid

  Sofia, Bulgaria

  April 2020 - November 2020

  Responsible for drawing characters and erotic scenes for the Hentai Heroes game.