welcome to my portfolio website!
I'm Nicole, an interdisciplinary artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area and studying in Los Angeles. Throughout the years, I've found a passion for multiple creative fields, including tech art, 3d art, visual design, and game development. Check out my work below or use the navigation buttons up top!
high school graduation, june 2023
I'm currently growing my academic and artistic skills at the University of Southern California, where I'm pursuing a BFA in Game Art at the School of Cinematic Arts, a BS in Economics & Data Science at the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, and a minor in Computer Programming at the Viterbi School of Engineering. As an artist whose passion is intertwining art with programming, I’m both a creative and artistic-minded individual as well as a technical and algorithmic-based thinker. I've developed a solid foundation in 3D modeling and animation (Autodesk Maya, Adobe Substance Painter 3D), but I've also developed core scripting and programming skills (C++, C#, Java, Python). In my future, I hope to be able to bridge these two distinct skillsets together!
I've been a digital artist for nearly five years now - in high school, I studied as an Animation student at the Freestyle Academy of Communication Arts & Technology, where I first discovered my passion for storytelling and digital media and learned how to use the Adobe Creative Suite and numerous 3D softwares. Not only did I grow my skills as an artist, but I found my specialty for intertwining art & STEM. For a more in-depth look at my old Freestyle Academy work, head to my Freestyle website!
In my free time, I'm also an avid enjoyer of banana-flavored foods, rubber ducks, traveling, and card-making!
Thank you for visiting my website! Please don't hesitate to reach out, and I hope you enjoy my work!