Riccardo Messina
Riccardo Messina
3D Character Artist
Catania, Italy

Summary

I am a passionate artist with over 8 years of experience in 3D art. I love videogames and all the process behind their building.
I have experiences in character and environment creation, art direction and team leading.
My core softwares are ZBrush, Maya, Blender, Marvelous Designer, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Photoshop, Marmoset Toolbag, Unreal Engine.

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Skills

3D ModelingTexturingSculptingAnatomy Knowledge

Software proficiency

ZBrush
ZBrush
Blender
Blender
Maya
Maya
Substance 3D Painter
Substance 3D Painter
Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine
Marmoset Toolbag
Marmoset Toolbag
Photoshop
Photoshop
Substance 3D Designer
Substance 3D Designer
Marvelous Designer
Marvelous Designer

Experience

  • 3D Character & Lead Artist at Sp3llBound Studios
    Catania, IT
    February 2024 - September 2024

    Creation of several 3D characters for “21BJ” game. Team and task

    management and art supervisor.

  • 3D Generalist at Matteo Mauro Studio
    Catania, IT
    January 2020 - January 2021

    Developing of digital sculpts for 3D print.

  • 3D Character Artist at Fiverr
    Catania, IT
    June 2021 - July 2023

    Modeling, Texturing and Rendering of different kind of assets, like

    character creation, NFT and much more.

  • 3D Modeler and Texture Artist at BeCreatives
    Milano, IT
    January 2018 - January 2019

    Creation of 3D assets for several mobile apps in Augmented Reality.

  • 3D Generalist at Arm23
    Catania, IT
    March 2019 - December 2019

    3D Modeling, UV Mapping and texturing of buildings and industrial

    machineries.