Experience

• Technical Artist at Meta Reality Labs

  Sausalito, CA

  February 2022 - February 2024

  Lookdev 3D artist with focus on grooming photorealistic avatars | Synthetic Data.
  
  Hair grooms for photo-real Avatars.
  
  • Generated diverse photorealistic grooms in Houdini and Blender.
  
  • R&D modular hair types system to automate generation of the synthetic groom library.
  
  • Created hair types modules in Houdini to implement procedural hair types dataset generation.
  
  • Completed proof of concept of instant procedural groom method in Houdini to automate synthetic​ hairstyles dataset generation.

• Designer | Producer at Winddresser

  San Francisco, CA, United States of America

  January 2013 - December 2019

  Designer, creative director and producer for the apparel startup.
  
  Designed, sourced, manufactured collections for three consecutive San Francisco Fashion Week shows as well as costumes for two Stanford University students performances.
  
  Completed and presented collections:
  
  - "Birds of Paradise" Winddresser for San Francisco Fashion Week Show.
  
  and in collaboration with Stanford Arts: costumes for the students dance performances.
  
  - "PIRATES & ADMIRALS" ShockFeathers for San Francisco Fashion Week Show.
  
  - "Artemis" ShockFeathers for San Francisco Fashion Week Show.

• 3d digital artist at California Academy of Sciences

  San Francisco, CA, United States of America

  September 2011 - May 2012

  - 3D Hard Surface Modeler, Texture painter of the environment, buildings, and props.
  
  - Maya dynamics sim for the pavement break
  
  - Maya nCloth sim
  
  Created three-dimensional environments for the San Francisco downtown visualizations c.1906 and c.2012, objects, vehicles, and props with respect to their functionality for animation and dynamics in production. Created specific UV layouts in Maya to use with layered shaders and painted Textures in Photoshop. Incorporated all these elements into the final shot renders.

• 3d digital artist at FooMojo, Inc

  San Francisco, CA, United States of America

  October 2008 - November 2011

  - 3D Modeling, Texturing, Shading, and Fur grooming
  
  Developed variety of pets looks that were player-controlled characters, created props and other art assets for FooPets games.
  
  Created Hi-res pets for sprites based game and low-res assets for Unity game environment.
  
  Responsible for complete look development, Modeling, UVs, Texturing, Shading, Fur grooming, and manual Unity assets conversion.

• Creature TD at Lightstream Animation Studios and Hydrogen Whiskey

  El Cerrito, CA, United States of America

  September 2007 - November 2008

  - Maya nCloth sim
  
  - Maya nHair sim
  
  Created simulations in Maya for short animations.

• 3d digital artist at Industrial Light & Magic

  San Rafael, CA, United States of America

  September 2000 - September 2004

  - 3D Hard Surface Modeler,
  
  - Digital doubles modeler,
  
  - Environments and Props modeler,
  
  - Cloth & Fur sim TD.

• 3d digital artist at DreamWorks Animation

  Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

  June 1997 - July 2000

  - CG Modeler & Painter on Antz
  
  - CG Modeler on Shrek

• 3d digital artist at 3DO Games Co.

  Redwood City, CA, United States of America

  March 1995 - February 1997

  "Baseball" and "Decathlon" PC & M2 sports games
  
  - modeling & texturing players
  
  - animation with motion capture data