Resume

Vu Phan

World Art / Vad Supervisor

los angeles, United States

Summary

Summary
Hi! I'm Vu! I'm a World Art/Vad Supervisor / Lead Environment Artist based in LA.

Email: vuanimation@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/artofvu

I've been in the industry for about 10+ years, so I've been around working with all kinds of movies, games, music video, and tech demo. I specialize in World-Building and I'm also a teacher and have been teaching young artists for about 2 years at Gnomon School.

My current list of movie and game projects are:

- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Avatar 3
- Pinocchio
- Untitled Video Game Project wtih Marvel and Skydance New Media
- Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo
- Everdale Cinematic
- Mouse Guard
- Metropolis
-Metaverse
-Hard feelings music video
-MSG
-Slay

-Education
Gnomon school of visual effects - 3 years certificate in 3D modeling/texturing
University of Utah - B.A in Film studies

Skills

Software proficiency

After Effects

Keyshot

Mari

Maya

Photoshop

Substance 3D Painter

Marmoset Toolbag

Unreal Engine

ZBrush

3DCoat

SpeedTree

Final Cut Pro

Toon Boom Studio

Xgen

gaea

Quixel Mixer

Productions

- Video Game
  Untitled Video Game Project
- Year
  2025
- Role
  World Art Supervisor
- Company
  Mold3D
- Movie
  Avatar 2
- Year
  2023
- Role
  3D Environment Artist/Generalist
- Company
  Lightstorm Entertainment
- Movie
  Pinocchio
- Year
  2022
- Role
  Lead Vad Artist
- Company
  Mold3D
- Movie
  Avatar 3
- Year
  2025
- Role
  3D Environment Artist/Generalist
- Company
  Lightstorm Entertainment
- Video Game
  Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Lead Artist
- Company
  Mold3D
- Video Game
  MetaVerse
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Lead Artist
- Company
  Mold3D
- Video Game
  Everdale
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Lead Environment Artist
- Company
  Mold3D
- Commercial / Advertisement
  Slay
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Lead Environment Artist
- Company
  Mold3D
- Commercial / Advertisement
  Hard Feelings Music video
- Year
  2020
- Role
  Lead Environment Artist
- Company
  Mold3D
- Movie
  Mouse Guard
- Year
  2019
- Role
  Senior 3D Character Artist / VAD
- Company
  Disney/ Fox Vfx Lab

Experience

World Art / CG Environment Supervisor at Mold3D
Burbank
September 2019 - Present
- Responsible for designing levels and creating 3D environments for movies and video games using UE5.

- Responsible for supervising teams for several projects.
Digital Sets Instructor at Gnomon school of visual effects
los angeles
April 2022 - Present
-Teaching students how to create 3D environments in UE5.
Senior 3D Artist at Disney / Fox Vfx Lab
los angeles
January 2019 - September 2019
-Responsible for modeling/texturing characters/costumes/props and assets

for Unreal Engine.

-Helped developing the pipeline and implementing better workflow for the

studio.
3D Environment Artist at Lightstorm Entertainment
Manhattan Beach
February 2016 - January 2019
-Responsible for modeling/texturing from organic to hard surface assets,

props, vehicles, characters and creatures to match with art director and

production designer's visions and ideas.

-Trained more than 15 artists from junior to senior level to get familiar with

the pipeline and Weta tools as well as other tools such as Zbrush,

Substance Painter Etc.

-Responsible for set dressing environments.

-Helped building the pipeline and implement better workflow for the studio.
3D Modeling / Texturing Artist at Deluxe Vr
Santa Monica Beach, United States of America
December 2015 - February 2016
-Responsible for modeling/texturing assets for Virtual Reality projects.
3D/2D Artist at Freelancer/Youtube/Self-Employer
Salt Lake City, United States of America
March 2012 - February 2015
Responsible for creating 3D stylized characters for RPG games.

Created several short animations that reached 13 million views on Youtube.

Collaborated with other artists and voice actors for Youtube projects.

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