Luis Arizaga Rico

Character Artist. Character designer. Visual development

Montreal, Canada

Summary

I'm an artist specialized in character design and visual development for animation.You can find some of my published articles in diverse professional CG magazines such as 3DWorld, 3DArtist and 3DCreative. Also some of my illustrations have been published in the EXOTIQUE book.

I'm able to do the whole process from 2d concept art to 3d sculpt, 3d modeling with topology for good deformation in animation, uv layout, blend shapes for expressions, texture shading, lighting and final rendering. I work with 3dsmax, Zbrush, Photoshop and Blender. If necessary I can adapt my work to other software.
I can easily follow art directions with the minimum explanations.

Skills

Software proficiency

ZBrush

Maya

3ds Max

Blender

Photoshop

Mischief

SketchBook Pro

Mari

Substance Painter

Arnold

V-Ray

UVLayout

Shave and a Haircut

Krita

Reel

Productions

- Movie
  Early Man
- Year
  2018
- Role
  Senior 3D Character Artist, Modeler, Texture artist.
- Company
  Aardman Animation
- Movie
  Alike
- Year
  2015
- Role
  3d Modeler, Lighter, render, texture artist, compositing
- Company
  Pepe School Land
- TV Production
  Holymonks
- Year
  2009
- Role
  Art director
- Company
  Digital Rebel Animation Studio

Experience

Senior 3D Character modeler at On Animation Studios
Montreal, Canada
October 2017 - Present
Senior 3D Character modeler for Playmobil the movie.
Senior 3D Character modeler at Aardman
Bristol, United Kingdom
May 2017 - September 2017
Senior 3d character modeler working with Aardman in the film "Early Man".
Senior 3D Character artist at Aardman
Bristol, United Kingdom
April 2017 - April 2017
Full 3d visual development of characters for TV advertisement. Modeling, texture, shading and lighting for appealing characters.
Lead Character Modeler at Squeeze Animation Studio
Quebec city, Canada
October 2016 - January 2017
Responsabilities: Provide 3d characters for the new redesigned aspect of the upcoming animated film "Troll, the Tale of a Tail".

I supervised the modeling team to achieve the characters appeal and the art quality.
Senior 3d character modeler at IMC Toys
Barcelona, Spain
June 2015 - August 2015
3D modeling and digital sculpture of various Disney toy characters: Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Pluto, Donald, Daisy.

3D modeling and digital sculpture of various Minnie complete sets (dresses, complements and props).

3D modeling and digital sculpture of Miles from Tomorrowland.

3D digital sculpture of Doozers characters.

3D digital sculpture of Snoopy character.
3D Art Instructor at KING
Barcelona, Spain
March 2016 - April 2016
Teach the 2D artists to develop 3D game assets for King projects.
Teacher at Digital Rebel School
Barcelona, Spain
January 2011 - Present
Responsibilities: Give courses of different fields: 3D modeling, Character design in 2D and its digital development, 3D sculpture, lighting and composition, and materials and texturing.

Some of my students were from the following companies: Gameloft, King, Beesquare, Socialpoint, Zitro.
Substitute Professor at Universitat de Vic
Vic (Barcelona), Spain
November 2015 - January 2016
Teach how to use Blender for 3d character production instead of 3dsmax and Zbrush.
Senior 3D Character Artist at AXIS ANIMATION
Barcelona, Spain
May 2016 - June 2016
Modeled, shaded, textured and rendered 3d characters in cartoonish style from designs provided by Axis Animation and Flaunt Productions.
Senior 3D Character Artist at Blow Studio
Spain
October 2015 - October 2016
Responsible for modeling the main characters for the short film “Alleycats”.
3d modeler, lighter at Pepe School Land
Barcelona, Spain
January 2013 - January 2015
Responsibilities: Modeling, lighting and composition and rendering for the short film.

Animated short film "Alike”. Alike won the "Premios Goya" award 2016 Best animated short film.

Best animation short film award Mundos Digitales International Film Festival 2015.
Art director, character artist. at Digital Rebel Studio
Barcelona, Spain
January 2008 - January 2011
Responsibilities: Art director of the TV series “Holymonks”. It was selected for the prestigious International Festival of Animation in Annecy, France and Siggraph Asia (HongKong) among others. After it Holymonks was acquired by Channel + France who emited it in more than 70 countries. ("Holymonks" is a registered trademark property of Luis Arizaga).
Character designer, character artist at Digital Rebel Studio
Barcelona, Spain
January 2005 - Present
Responsibilities: working as a 3D artist. Clients includes SHACKLETON MADRID S.L., Motoko creative motion design, KJ-Artists.com, Imagine Publishing, 3D total.

3D artist for toy company: IMC.