Ricardo Saraiva

IPATIMUP

Porto, Portugal

Work Experience

Bigmoon Interactive Studios

3D Artist

3D Modeling and texturing assets for AAA videogames for PC, PS4, PS3, Xbox 360.
November 2013 - Present Porto, Portugal

IPATIMUP

Lead 3D Artist

My work consists in providing 3D Art Direction in projects related to health (mostly cancer prevention). Notably: Modelling, texturing and animating 3d models and supervising live action 3D shots.
December 2010 - Portugal

Visual Labs

3d Generalist

My work involved 3D Modelling and Animation for Architectural Visualization projects.
October 2009 - June 2010 Portugal

The Lab

Multimedia Designer

This was and international internship program, with the duration of 6 months. My work consisted in providing Graphic Designs for publicity campaigns created in-house. I also did Video editing, and collaborated on the implementation of the campaigns created.
January 2009 - July 2009 Sabadell, Spain

CITAR

3d Generalist

This was a Scholarship to which I was invited after completing the "Som e Imagem" course.
My work consisted in modelling in 3D several landmark buildings of the city of Porto. 2 versions for each building: one in high resolution, and one in low resolution to be included in a web platform.
September 2006 - June 2007 Portugal

CITAR

3D Generalist

worked on "Porto no século XVI" (Porto in the XVI Century) in-house 3D animation. My job consisted in: animating one character; texturing elements of the scenery; creating the lightning and render setup; post production and video editing.
August 2007 - March 2008 Portugal

Universidade Católica Portuguesa

3D Generalist

Worked in "O Trovão" in-house 3D Animation
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgQNX6UCFBI&feature=share&list=PLB654677BFAA28CE3)

My work consisted in texturing all the elements on the living room.
July 2007 - August 2007 Portugal

Education

Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Master in Computer Animation

September 2009 - July 2010 Portugal

Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Degree in Som e Imagem

September 2000 - June 2006 Portugal

Languages

Portuguese (Native),
English (Fluent),
Spanish (Advanced),
French (Conversational),

Skills

3D Animation, 3D Lighting, 3D Modeling, 3d Rendering, 3D Sculpting, 3D Texturing, Digital Compositing, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics , Pencil Drawing, Storyboard,