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Vanessa Dutra
Vanessa Dutra
3D Generalist | XR Design Educator | Creative Direction
Boston, United States

Summary

I'm a passionate 3D Generalist with experience as an Assistant Creative Director and XR Mentor. I have experience in XR Design, the full 3D pipeline, and creative direction. I've created for VR games, mobile apps, museum exhibits, and recently I've been involved in creating XR Design and 3D Asset Creation educational content and courses. My favorite tools are Blender, Substance Painter, Unity, and the Adobe Suite, but more recently I've been getting aquainted with Unreal and Cinema4d as well. I also have a Degree in Studio Art. Let's connect and explore the future of creative technology and art!

Skills

Art DirectionStoryboarding3D Animation3D Modeling3D PrintingVideo EditingProject Management3D TexturingUX/UI DesignProject Coordination

Software proficiency

Blender
Blender
Adobe XD
Adobe XD
Unity
Unity
After Effects
After Effects
Premiere
Premiere
Photoshop
Photoshop
ZBrush
ZBrush
cura
cura
SparkAR
SparkAR
Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine
substance painter
substance painter
Cinema 4D
Cinema 4D

Experience

  • 3D Generalist at VR Creator Academy
    March 2023 - Present

    I handled all development student requests for custom 3d assets, which meant modelling, shading, texturing, baking, basic rigging and lighting as well as assisting in finding oursourced assets. I would also occasionally assist students in Unity.

  • Instructor at VR Creator Academy
    October 2023 - October 2023

    I developed a lesson module on Blender asset creation for VR in Unity which covers modeling, texturing, materials, lighting, retopology and how to properly export assets into Unity.

  • Instructor at Avocademy
    March 2023 - June 2023

    I developed a Masterclass focused on XR Design.

  • Class Mentor at XRTerra
    Boston
    July 2022 - Present

    I assist students in honing their ability to design 3d sets and set up Unity interactions in their own VR worlds. I also assist in research for curriculum development and I was recently offered an instructor role as well.

  • Assistant Creative Director/ 3d Artist at Boston Productions Inc
    Norwood, Ma
    September 2018 - July 2020

    I worked alongside the Creative Director to develop and design interactive museum exhibits by contributing to the product development, management, 3d graphics, animations and interactive wireframes. I also helped to fix a major disconnect between developers and designers by organizing meetings, creating task lists and moving into the "Dev Cave" for better team unity.

    Role/Tasks

    Project management assistance, creative direction, 3d model creation, storyboards, attract loops, UI elements, animations, scene blocking in Unity & Blender, videos editing, created interactive wireframes. Sourced creatives and voiceover talent, assisted in content/voiceover entry into CMS & JSON files, assisted in Quality Assurance and collaborated with developers to update and refine interactives

  • 3d Generalist at Self Employed
    Somerville, ma
    January 2014 - Present

    Trivium l 3d Animation for a Niagara Falls Exhibit

    EM Gladiators l Creation of 3d Characters, Medical Equipment and scene

    Fly4.Me l Creation of 3d printed legs for drone on Indeed.com Pizza commercial

    30 + Companies l 3d business logos