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Victoria Hardy is an environment artist for games, currently based in Los Angeles.
She graduated from the 2-year program at Gnomon - School of Visual Effects, Games and Animation in October 2024.
Story-telling and personal touch are the building blocks of her environments. She hopes to provoke curiosity and wonder in her digital worlds. ​​
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Before Gnomon, Victoria was a self-taught artist. She received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems from The University of Houston in 2021. She interned at IGP Methanol as a Data Analyst, where she worked with a team to perform shareholder analysis that organizes investor information. During this period, she remained passionate in digital work and studied 3D art and game design on her own time.​​
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As a personality, she is inquisitive, energetic and light-hearted. On her free time, she enjoys the gym, fishing and eating pastries. She prefers pineapple on pizza.
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Achievements
Software
Rookies Draft Selected || 2023
Gnomon Best of Term || Fall 2023
Gnomon Student Gallery || 2023 and 2024
Gnomon Annual Reel || 2023 and 2024
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Unreal Engine 5
Autodesk Maya
ZBrush
Gaea
SpeedTree
Adobe Substance 3D Designer
Adobe Substance 3D Painter
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Premiere Pro
Marmoset Toolbag 4
Nuke
Houdini​
Digital Skills
☆ Construction of real-time performance inexpensive worlds utilizing AAA studio-relevant techniques
☆ Modeling, texturing and rendering of full interior and exterior modular 3D environments
☆ Fully responsible for intriguing and complex assets built from the ground-up