Nicholas Kubik

Work History

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  Character Art Team Lead

  Roarty Digital Inc

  August 2023 - Present

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Remote

  In this role, I am responsible for leading a team of character artists by running daily sync meetings, conducting reviews of character models via ShotGrid and providing feedback, insight, and trouble shooting to get character assets to top tier quality for the client.
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  3D Modeler & Texture Artist

  SPIN VFX

  January 2022 - July 2023

  Atlanta, Georgia, United States · Hybrid

  As a 3D Modeler & Texture Artist at Spin, I create organic and hard surface models and photo-realistic textures of subjects ranging from characters to creatures, vehicles, props, weapons, and environments on a variety of film and television productions.

  

  
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  Character Artist

  High Voltage Software

  December 2020 - January 2022

  New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

  As a character artist for HVS, my responsibilities included:
  - Creating characters, props, and weapons based on concept art/reference photos
  - Creating high-resolution 3D sculpts and final low poly game assets
  - Building clean/highly animate-able topology
  - Baking using Marmoset Toolbag
  - Texturing using Substance Painter
  - Giving and receiving feedback with supervisors/other character modelers
  - Asset export and implementation into Unreal Engine
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  Asset Builder

  The Third Floor

  September 2020 - October 2020

  Los Angeles, California, United States

  The primary responsibilities of this role were to model, texture, and rig assets quickly and accurately based on concept art provided by the client. Assets created were production-ready to be used by animators/shot creators later in the production pipeline.
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  Mentee

  Blue Sky Studios

  June 2020 - August 2020

  Greenwich, Connecticut, United States

  During my mentorship with Blue Sky Studios, I met with artists of the company virtually twice a week for 10 weeks to learn and get feedback on different tools, techniques, and processes used at Blue Sky Studios in production.

• Lead 3D Scan Technician/Head of Marketing

  Second Chance Games & Visual Effects

  September 2014 - January 2018

  Atlanta, Georgia

  As the Lead 3D Scan Technician at 2nd Chance Games, I was responsible for capturing the scan data and reference photography of actors and actresses as well as various assets for movie, television, video game, and commercial productions. After the scan data was captured, I worked to process and clean up the scans as well as texture the 3D assets as part of the production pipeline. Additionally, I led the marketing division of the company by communicating with potential clients and coordinating high profile jobs.
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  Venue Operations/Marketing & Promotions Intern

  Rival Entertainment

  May 2013 - September 2013

  Atlanta, Georgia

  - Assisted with several concerts and music festivals in the Atlanta area working with production crews on sound checks and various other tasks to assure all shows ran smoothly and as planned.
  - Managed front office phones, customers, vendors and helped organize events.
  - Performed various box office assignments including conducting business through email exchanges, phone conversations and face-to-face meetings.