welcome to my portfolio website!
I'm Nicole, an interdisciplinary 3D artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area and studying in Los Angeles.
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 through technical art!
I've been a digital artist for almost four 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 through the exploration of 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 in an interdisciplinary way. For a more in-depth look at my old Freestyle Academy work, head to my Freestyle website!
Thank you for visiting my website! Please don't hesitate to reach out, and I hope you enjoy my work!