John Martinez

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I am John, 3D Technical Artist hailing from San Diego. I have 7 years of in depth industry experience with everything from VFX to Archviz and Game Asset Optimization.

About

I am John, 3D Technical Artist hailing from San Diego. I have 7 years of in depth industry experience with everything from VFX to Archviz and Game Asset Optimization.

Let’s make some beautiful visuals together.

  • Joined August 2025

Languages

  • EnglishFluent
  • JapaneseIntermediate
  • KoreanIntermediate
  • Spanish; CastilianIntermediate
  • ChineseIntermediate

Industry experience

  • Gaming
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Computers & Electronics
  • Software & Internet
  • Other

Projects · 6

This is my tool for visualizing projects in Blender that saves me loads of time when working on my latest specialty which is game asset optimization. I do a more comprehensive job and cut more polys than Unreal Engine or any other automatic optimization steps can, ensuring high performance on all devices with minimal cuts to visual quality on your LODs.

  • 3D Designer
  • 3D Visualizer
  • App Developer

Short animation for the artist DJ LMNOP

Animating his character Lil Z and creating a whole scene for the setting and theme of DEEP STATE by DJ LMNOP

  • 3D Animator
  • 3D Designer
  • 3D Modeler
  • +2

Model interior of the stages and floors of the Dolby from a DXF file of the layout, and photos of the various layouts of the Dolby. This was done in Theatre/Play mode.

The modeling was done traditionally as well as procedural setups for variations in crowd presence, and lighting gear.

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  • 3D Animator
  • 3D Designer
  • 3D Modeler
  • +1

Work experience· 4 roles

Forensic Animator · Focus GraphicsAug 2025 – Sep 2025 · 2 mos

Create environments at forensic accuracy level of detail.

Lead 3D Technical Artist · Cosmic WireJan 2022 – Mar 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Develop tools and workflows for game development and asset creation. Ship entire baked down levels for web and Unreal Engine use.

3D Rendering Artist · Lightsail VRSep 2021 – Feb 2022 · 6 mos

Foliage artist for an Imax film

Blender User/Advisor · AlyVRDec 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

Certifications and awards

2020 Blender Nations Artists of the Year2020 – 2021

After sharing my works with the Blender artist finished projects board, their moderator was so kind to award me Best artist of the month several times and on to be put on the best artists of the year as well! Thank you to Blender Nation for the support. And thank you Beyonce.

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