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Artem Nikolaiev
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Summary
Props artist with engineering background. Have the most experience with industrial stylized designs, stylized and
realistic. Practitioner of procedural workflows and unorthodox approaches. Prefer to be my own concept creator,
though work with concept artists just fine, able to add what is missing and proactively communicate nuances.
Experienced with fast AA-level production.

Experience
3D Artist
Pixela Labs
Jun 2023 - Apr 2024 (11 months)
Worked on large environments for VR/AR/XR applications as part of a team. Assets creation and
optimization. Working on CAD models and architecture sketches / white-boxes through a mix of
procedural and manual flows to achieve good real time performance. Procedural modelling and scene
optimization in Houdini.

3D Artist
Dreamate
Nov 2021 - Jun 2023 (1 year 8 months)

Intern
Fablab Fabricator
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021 (4 months)
3D photogrammetry scans post-processing. Creating models and printing various assembly parts,
printers maintenance, laser-cutting and woodworking.

3D Artist
ENIXAN®
Apr 2020 - Oct 2020 (7 months)
Working on updates for browser games. Low-, mid- poly modelling, high-poly sculpting of props for
game characters and environments. Rendering static pictures and cycled animations for 2D game
engine. Providing reusable 3D scenes for internal corporative usage

Tutor
IT Accademy CONTACT
Feb 2019 - Jan 2020 (1 year)
Teaching 10-12 years old children basics of modelling and texturing in Blender and 3DS Max as well as
3D printing. Preparing learning materials and rating students' progress. Maintenance of the 3D printing
hardware

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 Information Technology Technician
National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute'
May 2016 - Aug 2016 (4 months)
Networks maintenance, tehnical support during 2016 enrollment season. Customer support and
handling of personal documents for fresh students of the univercity.

Education
XYZ School
3D Environment Art
2021 - 2021
Learning and practicing full stack of techniques for creating real-time environments based on Unreal
Engine. Landscaping, vegateation, architecture, atmosphere and lighting.

National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute'
Master's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering
2014 - 2020

ETH Zürich
Non-degree programme, Manufacturing Engineering
2019 - 2019
Working with different types of additive manufacturing, a case study on implementations of multi-
material magnetically assisted 3D printing

Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
Non-degree programme, Artificial Intelligence
2018 - 2018
Case study of practical applications of machine learning techniques for improving the ecological
situation of the south-western coast of Turkey

Technische Universität Graz
Non-degree programme, Food Technology and Processing
2017 - 2017
Learning the chemical background of distilation and brewing. Practical cources on brewing ale, wheat
beer and distilling of jin in a lab-environment

Skills
Unreal 5 • Substance Painter • Autodesk Maya • Substance Designer • ZBrush • Houdini •
Marmoset • Adobe Illustrator • Unreal Engine 4 • Autodesk 3ds Max

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