Katherine Lopez
Katherine Lopez
Senior Dungeon Artist I Blizzard/Mentor TTTC/Judge Rookies
Irvine, CA, United States

Summary

Specialties:
- Level art, composition, and set dressing
- Architectural modular kits and asset creation
- Lighting
- Level design

Skill Set:
+ Visual development, excellent image knowledge (composition, perspective, color, value control, shapes, design). Versatile and able to adapt to various visual styles.
+ Use of different 3D modeling and sculpting techniques for hard surface and organic assets.
+ Use of different texturing techniques such as trims and material creation using PBR workflow
+ Understanding of UE5 Lumen and various lighting methods used in the industry across different engines.
+ Understanding of procedural workflows and tools, such as Houdini plugins for Unreal Engine.
+ Source control experience with Github, TortoiseSVN, Perforce, Source Tree, and Plastic.
+ VR experience
+ Photogrammetry experience, using Reality Capture.

Software:
- 3D modeling: Blender, Maya, ZBrush, 3D Coat
- 3D texturing: Quixel Suite, Quixel MegaScans, Quixel Mixer, Substance Painter, Substance Designer
- Game engines: Unity 3D, Unreal Engine 4 and 5
- Other tools: Marmoset Toolbag, Daz Studio, Marvelous Designer, World Machine, SpeedTree, - - Final Cut, Sidefx Houdini
- Adobe Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro

Publications:

- The Cvlt Podcast
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6yNGwh3IHVXoMwoT9xRBhw?si=RV_HDAYOTmmBwQK_Wf4mHA&nd=1

- Hiperbits FM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oel0D6bOwQk&t=553s

Skills

Environment Design3D ModelingEnvironment ModelingTexturingCinematics

Software proficiency

Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine
Unity
Unity
Quixel Suite
Quixel Suite
Mixer
Mixer
Marvelous Designer
Marvelous Designer
Houdini
Houdini
Marmoset Toolbag
Marmoset Toolbag
ZBrush
ZBrush
Blender
Blender
Premiere
Premiere
After Effects
After Effects
Photoshop
Photoshop
Substance 3D Painter
Substance 3D Painter
Substance 3D Designer
Substance 3D Designer
Maya
Maya
World Machine
World Machine
SpeedTree
SpeedTree
DAZ Studio
DAZ Studio