Jovian Nordgren - Technical 3D Artist
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  • Projects
    • Snuggles the Unicorn - VFX & Technical Art
    • Grapple Star - VFX & Technical Art
    • Alien Age - VFX & Technical Art
    • Destiny 2 - Game Ambient NPCs
    • Relic - Game Assets & Tech Art
    • Jerry's Rig - Animation Render
    • 221B Baker Street - Environment Render
  • Resume

Jovian Finch Nordgren
Technical Artist, 3D Generalist, Quality Engineer

Technical Artist specializing in prototyping, cleanup, optimization, and artist support. 
Proficient in 3D art workflows, traditional art, animation, VFX, rendering, and performance.
Lightning fast learner, quality advocate and team force multiplier.

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Indie Projects: Snuggles the Unicorn, Grapplestar, Alien Age
Bungie Projects: Destiny: The Taken King, Destiny 2, Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris, Destiny 2: Forsaken
​DigiPen Projects: Temple of the Water God, Forsaken, Penguin Playground, and Relic
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Go to Résumé / CV

Snuggles the Unicorn

Unicorn Mecha Dungeon Crawler
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Grapple Star

Spaceship Grappling Platformer
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Alien Age

Civilization Building Merge Game
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VR Maze Demo

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Above: Demo after populating the environment. Right: initial demo as received. 
Populated environment for a VR maze demo using Unity Asset Store package assets, developed lighting and bespoke particle effects, keeping VR limitations in mind to minimize impact on performance and maintain immersion. Implemented containment and physics volumes. 
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Original demo

Destiny 2 - Ambient Life

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Demo scene for prototype asset. Modified behavior on existing NPC asset, designed world vignette for demo.
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In-game screenshot from Destiny 2. Modeled, textured, rigged, and animated the sea monster.
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In-game screenshot from Destiny 2. Modeled, rigged, animated the owl.

Relic - DigiPen Capstone Project

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In-engine render. Responsible for: lighting, VFX, shaders, character model
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Rendered in Marmoset Toolbag

221B Baker Street - Environment Exploration

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Lighting Exploration Digital Paintover of 3D Rendered Scene from a previous solo project

Life Drawing

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Chalk pastel on brown paper approximately 48" by 25" from live model
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Digital painting from live model

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