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Hi, I’m Ruben Nevarez, a 3D artist with a strong track record in both commercial and artistic projects. I excel at delivering detailed character and hard-surface assets while maintaining a sharp eye for art direction, pipeline efficiency, and team collaboration. I thrive on mentoring teams, creating practical training materials, and pushing creative boundaries to meet high-quality standards on multiple ongoing projects.…Hi, I’m Ruben Nevarez, a 3D artist with a strong track record in both commercial and artistic projects. I excel at delivering detailed character and hard-surface assets while maintaining a sharp eye for art direction, pipeline efficiency, and team collaboration. I thrive on mentoring teams, creating practical training materials, and pushing creative boundaries to meet high-quality standards on multiple ongoing projects.

Ruben Nevarez

3D Designer, 3D Animator, 3D Modeler, +2

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Hi, I’m Ruben Nevarez, a 3D artist with a strong track record in both commercial and artistic projects. I excel at delivering detailed character and hard-surface assets while maintaining a sharp eye for art direction, pipeline efficiency, and team collaboration. I thrive on mentoring teams, creating practical training materials, and pushing creative boundaries to meet high-quality standards on multiple ongoing projects.…Hi, I’m Ruben Nevarez, a 3D artist with a strong track record in both commercial and artistic projects. I excel at delivering detailed character and hard-surface assets while maintaining a sharp eye for art direction, pipeline efficiency, and team collaboration. I thrive on mentoring teams, creating practical training materials, and pushing creative boundaries to meet high-quality standards on multiple ongoing projects.

Available to hire

Hi, I’m Ruben Nevarez, a 3D artist with a strong track record in both commercial and artistic projects. I excel at delivering detailed character and hard-surface assets while maintaining a sharp eye for art direction, pipeline efficiency, and team collaboration.
I thrive on mentoring teams, creating practical training materials, and pushing creative boundaries to meet high-quality standards on multiple ongoing projects.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

Language

English

Fluent

Spanish; Castilian

Fluent

Work Experience

Associate Art Director at Keywords Studios/Lakshya Digital

May 1, 2022 - July 1, 2025

Managed and trained a group of artists for clients such as EA, Bungie, Microsoft Flight Simulator, and BigBox VR; provided character art feedback on AAA projects; created training materials to improve team skills.

Senior 3D Artist at Leidos

October 1, 2019 - May 1, 2022

Led a team of artists in creating game assets for a military simulation VR training; Unreal Engine 4 used as the main game engine.

Lead Artist at De'Lamar Technologies

October 1, 2018 - September 1, 2019

Managed and led all art creation for the Dynablast mobile game; responsible for all character, environment, animation, and 2D graphics.

Character Artist at GenMZ

July 1, 2018 - August 1, 2018

Created new character concepts using ZBrush, Maya and Substance Painter for an experimental iPhone application.

3D Artist at Engineering and Computer Simulations (ECS)

January 1, 2018 - July 1, 2018

Modeled and textured hard surface models for inclusion on CryEngine and Unity; primary tools included 3Ds Max, ZBrush, Photoshop, and Substance Painter/Designer.

Character Artist/3D Modeler at Creative Veteran Productions

March 1, 2016 - September 1, 2017

Generated high-resolution sculpting and low-resolution modeling of characters for Unity-based games used in simulation and virtual reality.

3D Artist at AVT Simulation

September 1, 2013 - February 1, 2016

Modeled and sculpted buildings, vehicles, and weapons for the SE Core program; MultiGen Creator and Maya utilized.

Character Artist at Rovio Entertainment

November 1, 2013 - August 1, 2014

Digitally sculpted and modeled various characters and environment props for the animation series Stella and Friends; remote artist.

Character Artist at Electronic Arts

December 1, 2012 - August 1, 2013

Responsible for evaluating character hair and clothing; coordinated sculpting, polishing, detailing and texturing to create character heads and clothes for NFL Madden; used ZBrush, Maya and Photoshop.

3D Artist at SAIC

August 1, 2012 - November 1, 2012

Generated high-resolution sculpting and modeling of avatars for virtual worlds running on Unity; designed and modeled environments, texturing and rigging.

Character Modeler at True Light Media

December 1, 2011 - April 1, 2012

Directed all character creation for a project for the Florida Marlins; modeled environments, scene preparation and rendering.

Character Modeler at Campus Crusade for Christ

October 1, 2009 - September 1, 2011

Responsible for all character creation for the project Archivo Cero; contributed to the creation of many props, environments, texturing, compositing, and rendering.

Information Technician at UNITED STATES NAVY

May 1, 2002 - June 1, 2007

Administered a network of over 200 clients on a Windows 2003 server; backup manager for all database systems; performed maintenance on all computer systems and CISCO routers; honorable discharge.