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Leon Balmes
Leon Balmes
3D Artist for Games and 3D Prints
Hamburg, Germany

Summary

I am a 3D-Artist and digital Designer with a background in Media Design and Media Production and a Masters in Time-dependent Media - Games.
Currently I work part-time at an ad-agency while freelancing the rest of the time. Part of the freelance work is the teaching of 3D Modelling and Animation for video games.
My focus is on real-time 3D art as well as 3D Printing and I'm open for commissions.

Skills

3D ModelingDigital SculptingUser Interface DesignTexturing3D Animation2D AnimationCharacter AnimationUV MappingVector IllustrationTexture BakingEnvironment DesignCharacter ModelingEnvironment ModelingCharacter Design

Software proficiency

Blender
Blender
Nomad Sculpt
Nomad Sculpt
ZBrush
ZBrush
Unity
Unity
Cinema 4D
Cinema 4D
Mudbox
Mudbox
3ds Max
3ds Max
Affinity Designer
Affinity Designer
Affinity Photo
Affinity Photo
Photoshop
Photoshop
Illustrator
Illustrator
InDesign
InDesign
After Effects
After Effects
Premiere
Premiere
DaVinci Resolve
DaVinci Resolve

Productions

    • Video Game
      Arctic Olympics
    • Year
      2023
    • Role
      Character Modelling & Animation
    • Company
      Curvature Games
    • Video Game
      Frozen Factory
    • Year
      2020
    • Role
      Character Modelling & Animation
    • Company
      Curvature Games
    • Mobile Game
      Refruitees Welcome
    • Year
      2018
    • Role
      Artist, Animator, Game Designer, Project Manager, Audio Designer
    • Company
      Panic Bandit Studios
    • Mobile Game
      Fishalot
    • Year
      2017
    • Role
      3D-Artist
    • Company
      Playfiber

Experience

  • 3D Docent (Freelance) at htk Academy Hamburg
    Hamburg, DE
    March 2022 - Present

    One of my repeating freelance jobs is as a docent at the htk Academy where I teach 3D Modelling and Animation for video games.

  • Graphic Designer at Paints Multimedia GmbH
    Hamburg, DE
    September 2021 - Present

    After finishing my Master degree in Time-Dependent Media - Games at the HAW I continued working as a Graphic Designer part-time at Paints Multimedia as well as freelancing on the side.

  • Working Student Graphic Design at Paints Multimedia GmbH
    Hamburg, DE
    October 2018 - August 2021

    Position as a working student in the area of Graphic Design during my Master studies at the HAW Hamburg.

  • Research Assistant at HAW Hamburg (University of Applied Sciences Hamburg)
    Hamburg, DE
    September 2018 - March 2021

    During my Master Studies at the HAW I worked for some time in another department of the HAW under Prof. Dr. Heike Neumann to create educational games for the Hamburg Open Online University Program.

    I worked in a team consisting of students of the HAW and my role was the sole Artist of the team. During my time there we finished a collection of 5 small mobile games. These games were mainly meant for first and second semester students in electrical engineering studies. Some of them had the goal of refreshing mathematical concepts like fractions, absolute values or derivations while others were meant to visualize concepts like the values of soundwaves or different coordinate systems.

  • 3D-Artist Internship at Eppendorf AG
    Hamburg, Germany
    September 2017 - February 2018

    Internship as a 3D-Artist for different projects. My tasks ranged from photo-realistic renderings of the company's products to low-poly and animation work, of their products as well as for example four augmented reality Christmas animations with the company's mascot and even game design as well as game art for a little game showcasing one of the company's products.

  • 3D-Artist at Playfiber
    Hamburg, Germany
    May 2017 - June 2017

    3D-Artist for the game FIshalot. In the game you can catch lots of different fish in three different environments, tropic, forest and arctic. My task during the two months I worked on it was to create almost all of the 3D models used in the game.

  • Working Student 3D-Artist at TREU media GmbH
    Hamburg, Germany
    March 2017 - April 2017

    3D-Artist for a short project for the advertisement company's exhibition display, a VR Apprenticeship Finder. In this short Virtual Reality game the player chooses if different attributes fit to them and in the end gets a recommendation for a fitting apprenticeship. In between the questions they also have the possibility to catch balloons flying by, thereby reaching a score at the end of the game and entering a contest.

    The game was realised by me, two fellow students who programmed and an employee of the firm. I acted as 3D-Artist, Animator and Game Designer, the employee of the advertisement company supported me with the Game Design and 2D Art. The fellow students did the programming.

  • Artist at Butterfly-Effected GmbH
    Hamburg, Germany
    July 2016 - January 2017

    Working student job as an artist. I mainly conceptualized and realized themes for the Samsung Theme Store and Watchfaces for the Samsung Gear Watches as well as doing the marketing material for the themes and watchfaces.

  • Artist for a little game project at St. Marien-Hospital Marsberg
    Marsberg, Germany
    February 2013 - April 2013

    Concept and realisation of a small Flash-game for patients of the hospital.