SARA CALZADA 96 Balvernie Grove SW18 5RP London 44 (0) 7510514695 https://saracalzada.com/work [email protected] DESIGNER / CONCEPT ARTIST (FREELANCE) Netflix | Kidscave Studios, London. Sep 2020 - May 2021 Concept Artist of Props, Characters and Environments for a NETFLIX 3D animated series. DIRECTOR Bocata Games, London. Apr 2020 - ongoing Direction and Art Direction of “Puerto Viejo”, a 2D adventure game for iOS and PC/Steam. Funded by the UK Games Fund. London Games Festival 2021 Selection. 3D & CONCEPT ARTIST (FREELANCE) Ice Beam Games, Dundee. May 2020 - Jun 2020 Concept Art and 3D Modeling for the racing game “Make Way”. ART DIRECTOR MRSWORDSMITH, London. Feb 2019 - Dec 2019 Art Director of MrsWordsmith’s learning app. Responsibilities: -Managing the handover of the project from an external company -Help building an internal team of 3D artists -Briefing and managing outsourcers and freelancers -Providing estimates and check deliveries -Helping create working prototypes -Creation of 3D assets -Creation of an art pipeline -Implementation of art assets into Unity -Solving technical challenges within Unity and Git ARTIST PRELOADED, London. Aug 2017 - Dec 2018 -Lead artist for McDonald’s “Happy Studio” games “The Lego Movie 2”, “Peter Rabbit” and “Roald Dahl”, including concept design and 2D/3D asset creation -2D and 3D art for several VR game pitches and web content 3D ARTIST (FREELANCE) Nucco Brain, London. Dec 2018 - Jan 2019 -3D modeling for the interactive music video “So Called” from COLORWAVE ART DIRECTOR (FREELANCE) SQUAREBERRY GAMES, London. Jun 2017 - Dec 2017 -Art direction and content creation for “Tidy Robots”, a puzzle game for Android and iOS -Published by Umbrella Games, featured by Apple “Best new games in China” VISUAL DEVELOPMENT ARTIST 22CANS, Guildford. Aug 2012 - Jun 2017 -Visual Development, 3D modeling and concept art for several games: ”The Trail” iOS, Android, PC (2016) ”Godus” iOS, Android, PC (2013) ”Curiosity (What’s inside the cube)” iOS, Android (2012) MOTION GRAPHICS ARTIST FRAILE&BLANCO, Santander. Jan 2011 - Dec 2011 -Creation of TV idents (2D and 3D animation) -Video compositing and video editing COMIC ARTIST EDITORIAL SAURE, Bilbao. Nov 2011 - Jul 2012 -Pencils and colouring for the following published books: “La Trattoria. Volume 1” and “La Trattoria. Volume 2” “Interplanetary Survivorguy” LAYOUT ARTIST ENNE ENTERTAINMENT STUDIOS, Salamanca. Oct 2009 - Apr 2010 -Shot and sequence creation based on a toryboards for the 3D animation series “Escape Hockey” (TV pilot) ENG CAMERA OPERATOR CANAL BIZKAIA, Bilbao. Feb 2007 - Jun 2007 -ENG camera operator for interviews, cultural events, and stock footage EDUCATION -Master’s degree in 3D Animation -Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts -Languages: English, Spanish SOFTWARE -Photoshop -Maya -Unity -Premiere -After Effects -Shotgun -Nuke (Basic) -Substance (Basic).