Laura Menigoz

I am a Senior 3D Environment and Level Artist for Video Games and, with over 8 years of professional experience in the real-time 3D industry (video games and virtual architectural tours).

I have worked on 3 titles with strong licenses, such as Warhammer (Games Workshop) or even the World of Darkness (White Wolf) and over 50 architectural projects on multiple platforms (PC, PlayStation, Xbox, HTC Vive...).

On the education and training side, I followed a Game Art program with a Preparatory Year in Animation & Video Games at LISAA Paris and then at New3dge Paris.

I hold a DEUG in English and a Level 1 RNCP certification in Game Art from the New 3dge Paris school.

Skills:

- 3D Modeling (high/low poly, modular kits, hero props, blockings...)

- Texturing (PBR, tileable textures, trim sheets, vertex paint, texel density, texture atlases...)

- Integration (respect of naming conventions, clean file and folder organization, compatibility, shader and material creation...)

- Optimization (polycount, LODs, drawcalls...)

- Level Art and storytelling (environmental storytelling, color palettes, image composition, lighting basics...)

Software:

- Unreal Engine 4 & 5

- Autodesk 3DS Max

- Substance Suite: Substance Painter and Substance Designer

- Adobe Photoshop

- ZBrush

- Gaea (procedural terrain creation)

- Versioning software: Tortoise SVN, Perforce

- Communication software: Slack, Microsoft Teams

- Documentation software: Notion, Google Suite, Miro, Figma, Canva, Microsoft Office Suite

- Project management software: Trello, Jira...

- Teaching software: Hyperplanning, Moodle