Creative Metaverse Podcast

This week Ryan has the pleasure to present to you a conversation with Vimal Kerketta, a digital sculptor/character artist whose work has been featured in many movies, video games & toys.  To shed light on his beginnings for aspiring artists, Vimal recounts how he started off his artistic career. Like many it did not start in the area of art, but rather in a different field. Vimal has an unapologetic attitude that is too be admired about making art that he loves first and then share it with the world. Which helps us better understand what so many artists say, "...do what you have passion for." And he reminds us that this is different to each person and to be thoughtful in where our passion stems from.

Learn more about Vertex School: https://www.vertexschool.com/

Learn more about Vimal

Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/vimalkerketta/profile

Portfolio site: http://vimalkerketta.blogspot.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kerkettavimal?lang=en

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vimkerk/?hl=en 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VimalKerketta87?app=desktop

Want to learn skills for creative tech jobs in games, film, XR and the Metaverse?

Apply for your spot in our upcoming Game Arts Program here: https://www.vertexschool.com/game-arts-program

Ryan is excited to present his conversation with Ian Spriggs, 3D Portrait Character Artist, who's portraits push our expectation of 3D character work. Ian's work is raw and true to the subject, but in his chat with Ryan we are shown the artistry woven into his work.  How there is an intension behind the eyes, or a thought placed into the mannerisms and posture.

Learn more about Vertex School: https://www.vertexschool.com/

Learn more about Ian

Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/ianspriggs/profile

Portfolio site: https://ianspriggs.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpriggsIan

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYL_RE56zhEA9_DuUPyyCGA

Want to learn skills for creative tech jobs in games, film, XR and the Metaverse?

Apply for your spot in our upcoming Game Arts Program here: https://www.vertexschool.com/game-arts-program

Ryan has the pleasure to chat with Jasmine Jai, Senior Sound Designer at HoYoverse. She crafts the sound and acoustic mood in games. Listen in on this conversation and start to listen to the ambient noise that defines your surroundings. Jasmine's job is one layer that helps build an immersive experience in the game design pipeline.

Learn more about Vertex School: https://www.vertexschool.com/

Learn more about Jasmine

Portfolio site: https://www.jasminejia.com

Twitter: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKgTDwH6ihX3V5Gnn4-w1b

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKgTDwH6ihX3V5Gnn4-w1bg

Want to learn skills for creative tech jobs in games, film, XR and the Metaverse?

Apply for your spot in our upcoming Game Arts Program here: https://www.vertexschool.com/game-arts-program

Listen in on Ryan's chat with Nacho Riesco. Nacho is a Freelance Digital Sculptor well known for his elaborately crafted jewelry and highly engaging demos on Pixologic's YouTube channel. They will discuss Nacho's start as an artist and his view on digital sculpting from the point of view of a traditional who is less concerned the technical side of digital art.

Nacho's work often ends up printed, cast or even translated to run on a CNC machine. He touches on the integration of digital sculpting in modern projects and how it aids modern tractional artist with sculptures and reliefs. Plus, we learn from Nacho the art of freelancing and with a focus in the jewelry arena.

Learn more about Vertex School: https://www.vertexschool.com/

Learn more about Nacho

Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/nachoriesco

Portfolio site: https://www.nachoriesco.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nachoriesco

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/esculturadigital15/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/NachoRiesco

Want to learn skills for creative tech jobs in games, film, XR and the Metaverse?

Apply for your spot in our upcoming Game Arts Program here: https://www.vertexschool.com/game-arts-program

This week we have our Producer at Vertex School, Jean-Marc standing for Ryan. Join Jean-Marc's conversation with Thomas Tobin, a talented Senior Tech Artist at Unity Technologies. Also, Thomas teaches Houdini at the Vertex School and shares his knowledge of procedural design with his students.

Thomas gives us an in-depth view of his process and how he found his niche as a Tech Artist, from working as an Environment Artist to an internship at SideFX to learn about Houdini. 

Kurtis has worked on with studios like Scanline and Zoic Studio.

Make sure to learn more about Kurtis at the links below.

Thomas Tobin's Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/thomasctobin

Learn more about Vertex School: https://www.vertexschool.com/

We invite you to listen in on Kurtis Dawe and Ryan's conversation about Prime Ape Panet. Kurtis Dawe now has decided that he wants to use his skills and experience to bring a high-value project to NFT space with Prime Ape Panet. The project is headed up by Kurtis and a team of designers who are known for many productions like The Lion King, Godzilla, and many other animations for Marvel, Disney, MGM, and much more.

Kourtis gives us an in-depth view of his process for how his team creates the insane volume of work, from sculpting in Zbrush to rendering in Houdini and finally the loving touches in Photoshop. Also, he gives us a sense of perspective from the Artist point of view as a creator in the ever-evolving NFT community.

Kurtis has worked on with studios like Scanline and Zoic Studio.

Make sure to learn more about Kurtis at the links below.

Kurtis Dawe's Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/kurtisdawe

Kurtis Dawe's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kurtis_Dawe10

Prime Ape Panet: https://opensea.io/collection/primeapeplanetpap

Learn more about Vertex School: https://www.vertexschool.com/

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Have a listen to our chat with vertex mentor Chico Spans. Chico is a vegetation artist at Massive entertainment. Before that Chico was an environment artist at playground games as part of the road team working on Forza Horizon 4 and before that he was at Sticky studios.

Chico gives us an in depth view about his journey as an artist and how he intentionally set specific goals to work for a AAA studio and the perseverance needed to get there. Chico talks to us about mega scans and some of the most powerful artistic lessons he has learned. Have a listen and get inspired by Chico's unique story.

Learn more about Vertex School: https://www.vertexschool.com/

Learn more about Chico: https://www.artstation.com/chicospans/profile

Want to learn skills for creative tech jobs in games, film, XR and the Metaverse?

Apply for your spot in our upcoming Game Arts Program here: https://www.vertexschool.com/game-arts-program

Datagen provides high-performance data that is key to production-ready algorithms to accelerate R&D and improve computer vision models with access to a fully controllable synthetic data generation platform.

In this episode, Ryan meets with Gil (CTO and Co-founder), Teddy (Marketing Manager) and Evan (Director of 3D Technologies and a Vertex Mentor) to discuss the synthetic approach to computer vision.

Make sure to learn more about Datagen at the links below.

Datagen's Website: Datagen | Synthetic Data for Computer Vision Teams

Datagen's Twitter: https://twitter.com/dgupdate

Datagen Careers: https://datagen.tech/careers/

Learn more about Vertex School: https://www.vertexschool.com/

Want to learn skills for creative tech jobs in games, film, XR and the Metaverse? Apply for your spot in our upcoming Game Arts Program here: https://www.vertexschool.com/game-arts-program

Jacob Classen is currently a Lead Environment at Fall Damage Studio in Stockholm, Sweden and a Mentor at Vertex School. 

In this episode, Bita and Jacob go through his amazing journey to become a professional artist and the courage to continue push his creativity. Along with being a recognized artist in our industry.

 Jacob is also a educator who resonates with his student and shares many of the workflows that he uses in the Game Industry. He has worked on with studios like Ubisoft (Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and The Division 2: Warlords of New York Expansion) and Starburst (Overkill´s The Walking Dead).

Make sure to learn more about Jacob at the links below.

 Jacob Claussen's Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/jacobclaussen

Jacob Claussen's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jacobclaussen

Fall Damage Studio: https://www.falldamagestudio.com/

Learn more about Vertex School: https://www.vertexschool.com/

Want to learn skills for creative tech jobs in games, film, XR and the Metaverse? Apply for your spot in our upcoming Game Arts Program here: https://www.vertexschool.com/game-arts-program

Tyler and Larry have a PHd in NFTs and host a popular podcast called That's Nifty where they interview amazing artists working in this space.

In this episode, Ryan talks with Tyler and Larry to unpack what an NFT and what they've learned from collecting and interview artists like Aeforia, Smeccea, Kid Mograph and more.

Learn more about That's Nifty Podcast: https://twitter.com/Thatsnft

Learn more about Vertex School: https://www.vertexschool.com/

Want to learn skills for creative tech jobs in games, film, XR and the Metaverse? Apply for your spot in our upcoming Game Arts Program here: https://www.vertexschool.com/game-arts-program