Joaquin Cossio

Work History

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  Freelance Sr/Principal 3D Character Artist

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  May 2023 - Present

  Collaborating with clients on creating Digi Doubles and Assets for Films, Premium TV, and Games.
  ● Facial modeling and creating Blend shapes based on the FACs system. Collaborate with the rigging and animation team to improve their character and creature assets.
  ● Services: Concept sculpting, Modeling (low and high), Texturing, and Look-dev.
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  Senior Character/Creature Artist

  Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies VFX

  March 2022 - December 2023

  Remote

  . Creating high-quality assets including Digi Doubles and Creatures for feature films and premium tv.
  Shows
  2022 Ms. Marvel - Disney
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  Senior/Lead Character Artist (Full-time)

  Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies VFX

  March 2022 - December 2023

  . Creating high-quality assets, including Digi Doubles and Creatures for feature film and TV.
  . Facial modeler and blendshape. Responsible for creating a script to batch-process multiple actions FACs, increasing productivity by 0.
  . Responsible for creating modeling, texturing, and look dev of a set of characters and creatures for our internal library, which was used to increase the quality of our projects.
  . Improving the topology, UVs, and detailing of our female base asset.
  . Lead a team providing feedback and support.
  . Teach the pipeline to new integrations.
  . Provide support during the onboarding process.
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  Game Art Instructor

  A+ vanguardia en educación

  April 2021 - January 2023

  Montevideo, Uruguay

  Teaching the technical and artistic side of creating high-quality assets ready for today's standards for games.
  - Showing the complete pipeline used in production for creating props as well as characters, showcasing the complete workflow from creating the Model, UVs, PBR texturing, and shading in Unity, rigging, and animation techniques for games. utilizing today's standard software such as Zbrush, Maya, Mudbox, and Substance Painter.
  - Analyze different games from the artistic point, composition, game design, gameplay, cinematics.
  - Every Student culminates with two games during the course of one year.
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  Freelancer 3D Character Artist for cinematics and games

  Freelance Character Artist

  November 2017 - August 2021

  Montevideo, Uruguay

  Self-employed.
  - Character for games and cinematic.
  - From the concept to the final piece.
  - High poly modeling, low-poly, baking, PBR textures and shading, final render.
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  Freelance Senior 3D Character Artist

  Devoted Studios

  July 2021 - August 2021

  Los Angeles, California.
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  3D Character Artist

  BonusXP

  August 2020 - June 2021

  Allen, Texas, United States

  - Creating high-quality characters for a AAA title.
  - Help with the design and ideas in collaboration with the Art dep.
  - Character modeling and sculpting, lowpoly, baking, and texturing.
  - Create the final presentation using a real-time engine for the final delivery.
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  Character Artist

  NIKO

  December 2018 - December 2019

  Montevideo, Uruguay

  3D artist focused on character creation.
  
  Role: Character modeling, texturing and lookdev.
  Commercials, animation and cinematic.

• Freelance Character Artist for games

  Plus Infinity Studios

  November 2017 - January 2019

  Denver y alrededores, Estados Unidos

  -- Principal 3D Character Artist for games
  Character modeling, high and lowpoly, baking, retopology and texturing.
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  3D Artist

  NIKO

  November 2016 - December 2018

  Montevideo, Uruguay
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  Principal Character Artist - Espn (Disney)

  ESPN

  July 2018 - October 2018

  New York

  - Principal character artist for ESPN, having in charge the creation of the 25 figurines for the NBA website.
  - Responsible to create 13 of the 25 figurines, supervising the rest for the final output.
  - As well as create the look dev scene, clothing base, character base which we used for all the players.
  - Project manager, create a good workflow between client and artists.

• Freelance 3D Artist

  Enano Maldito

  August 2014 - August 2016

  Montevideo

  3D generalist in commercials.

• 3D Generalist

  Skycube

  June 2014 - June 2016

  Montevideo, Uruguay

  3D generalist.