Gil Franco

Work History

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  Character Modeling Instructor

  School of Visual Arts

  January 2023 - Present

  New York, United States · On-site

  MFA class on character modeling from design to look dev

• Digital Art Director

  PCMA

  June 2024 - September 2024

  storyboarding and designing characters and assets for production company intro animation
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  Environment Modeler

  Psyop

  August 2023 - October 2023

  New York, United States · Remote

  Modeling environment, generating vegetation using Speedtree for Cricket commercial
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  Character Modeler

  HiFi3D

  June 2023 - July 2023

  Brooklyn, New York, United States · Remote

  Modeling skeleton character for Reese's Commercial
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  CG Generalist

  Psyop

  September 2022 - November 2022

  New York, United States · Remote

  Texturing, Look Dev, Character modeling, Procedural modeling
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  Asset Artist

  Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies VFX

  September 2021 - September 2022

  New York, United States · Remote

  Interpreting character and prop design in 3D using Maya, Zbrush, Houdini, and Substance Painter Texturing. Incorporating feedback from Department Leads
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  3D Artist

  DDB Worldwide

  August 2021 - September 2021

  New York City Metropolitan Area

  Posing characters and 3D modeling using Maya, Zbrush and Substance Painter
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  Prop Modeler

  CHRLX

  May 2021 - May 2021

  Designing and modeling props for an upcoming promotional campaign using Maya, Zbrush and Substance Painter
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  Environment Modeler

  CHRLX

  April 2021 - April 2021

  Set and Prop modeling for Cinnamon Toast Crunch Spot. Incorporating notes from art director. UV Layout, Texturing using Substance Painter.
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  Character Designer

  HiFi3D

  March 2021 - March 2021

  New York, United States

  designing character for commercial pitch
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  Texture Artist

  CHRLX

  January 2021 - February 2021

  New York, United States

  Texturing a variety of characters and assets for short film using Maya and Substance Painter
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  3D Environment Artist

  Hornet Inc.

  January 2021 - January 2021

  New York, United States

  Building and UVing and texturing environment for McDonald’s commercial using Maya, Zbrush, Marvelous Designer and Substance Painter
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  Caricature Artist

  Freelance

  February 2017 - October 2020

  New York, New York

  Drawing charcoal portraits of people and dogs at events and parks
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  3D Modeler

  PDU Games LLC

  April 2020 - April 2020

  New York, United States

  Designing and building a 3D model of a spaceship for 3D printed board game
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  3D Artist

  Deutsch

  January 2020 - January 2020

  New York, United States

  Designing 3D Motion Graphics for Pharmaceutical Client
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  3D Artist

  Bajibot

  March 2019 - June 2019

  New York, United States

  Building and texturing models for Corteva Interactive Project
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  3D Artist

  Lagardère Sports

  July 2018 - October 2018

  New York

  3D modeling, Graphic design, Illustration
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  3D modeler

  Midnight Commercial

  August 2017 - August 2017

  Brooklyn

  3D modeling and character design for a branded augmented reality app
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  Vis Dev Artist

  HiFi3D

  2016 - 2016

  Character design for spec job
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  3D Modeler

  HiFi3D

  2016 - 2016

  Asset modeling for Play-Doh Commercial

• 3D intern

  Parachute VFX

  February 2015 - September 2015

  NYC

  concept, design, and build 3D assets for production.
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  Modeler

  Mascotte+

  2015 - 2015

  Character Modeling
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  Freelance 3D Modeler

  Edit 1 Media

  2015 - 2015

  NYC

  Clothing modeling

• Spartan Bookstore

  Spartan bookstore

  June 2012 - November 2013

  San Jose

  Design Posters, Fliers, and any other graphical elements for the Spartan Bookstore.
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  Apple Sales Representative

  San Jose State University

  August 2011 - June 2013

  Spartan Bookstore

  Assisting customers with purchasing decisions, troubleshooting technical problems, fixing electronic devices, design of poster, pamphlets, hand outs.