About Artist | sengjoon

May 2013 - Aug 2013

Sep 2010 - Nov 2010

June 2012 - Aug 2012

June 2014 - Present

Sengjoon Song is a professional CG artist who is specialized in the creation of highly-detailed CG art work. He always enjoys using his imagination to envision new ideas. He has a deep passion in comics, artwork, racing, and video games, which is where most of his inspirations originate. He is currently crafting many of CG art work with the cinematic art team at Blizzard Entertainment.

Experience

- Blizzard Entertainment, Irvine, CA

Senior Cinematics Environment Artist

Responsible to design and model pre-rendered cinematic environment sets, and props

-World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth Cinematic Trailer

-Hearthstone: "Hearth and Home"

-Overwatch Animatic Shorts: "Honor and Glory", "Rise and Shine", "Infiltration",

"The Last Bastion", "Hero", "Dragons", "Recall", "Alive"

-Overwatch Theatrical Teaser: "We Are Overwatch"

-World of Warcraft Legion Cinematic Trailer

-Star Craft II Legacy of the Void Opening Cinematic

- Infinity Ward, Los Angeles, CA (full-time internship)

Responsible for creating (model, UV edit, and texture)

in-game 3D environment assets for ‘Call of Duty Ghosts’

- Digitrove, San Francisco (internship for learning purpose)

Learned essential skills to create realistic human models

also studied efficient, and clean geometry

May 2012

Fall 2009 - Spring 2014

2002 - 2008

2006 - 2008

March 2014

April 2014

May 2014

June 2014

August 2014

September 2014

May 2015

December 2015

May 2016

Award & Recognition

- IFCC Croatia 2016, guest speaker

- Art Station featured artwork / Best of 2015

- 3D Total, Excellence Award

- 3D Artist magazine, issue 72

Maya Sci-fi (The Process of Creating Artemis) Tutorial featured,

Artemis model image has published on the cover

- Dope Award, 3D Winner

- Autodesk CG Student Award

Student of the Year 2014

- 3D World magazine, issue 182

Artemis model image has published

- 3D Artist magazine, issue 67

Artemis model image has published

- Annual Spring Show 2014

Winner, Hard Surface & Environment modeling

- CG Meetup, Animation & Vfx, Showreels

My demo reels are presented to show; Artemis, Jeep : Link

- CG Society, CG Choice Award: Golden Badge

- CG HUB, Gold Award

- 3D Total, Excellence Award

- Annual Spring Show 2012

Winner, Hard Surface modeling

Education

- Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA

Bachelors of Fine Arts

- Seoul Institute of Art, Gojan-dong, South Korea Associate of Art Degree in Motion Pictures & Film

Military

Completed 2 years of mandatory service as a citizen of Republic of Korea army

Skills

Autodesk Maya, Mudbox,

Foundry Mari,

Pixologic Zbrush,

Adobe Photoshop, After Effect,

Quixel nDo,

Headus UVLayout,

Mental images Mental Ray,

Chaos Group V-Ray,

Luxion KeyShot,

MOI 3D,

CLO Virtual Fashion Marvelous Designer

Language

Korean, English