Salvador Mata – 3D artist

Name: Salvador Mata Rodriguez
E-mail / Contact: mataii (a) gmail.com

Professional Experience

Virtual Reality Lab coordinator
Direccion General de Recursos Educativos
Universidad de Colima
April 2012 – Present

3D Artist, Developer
Universidad de Colima, Virtual Reality Lab
September 2011 – April 2012

Senior 3D artist
CGBOT
February 2011 – August 2011
3D artist for next-gen games (Xbox, ps3)

3D Artist
Freelance Artist
February 2011 – February 2011

3D Artist
CEUPROMED
June 2005 – February 2011

Junior 3D Artist
CGBot
February 2007 – May 2007 (4 months)
-Working as 3D artist for next-gen games (Xbox, ps3)
-Currently working as remote/freelancer artist

Participation in Videogames

• Area51:BlackSite (ArtWork & Level Building)
• Star Wars: The Old Republic (High poly, low poly and texturing)
• Spec Ops: The line (High poly weapon modeling and low poly texturing)
• Ghostbusters Wii – (low poly and texturing)
• The Sims Castaway  – (texturing)
• Wheelman (Modeling)
• Majesco Entertainment – Night at the Museum Battle of the Smithsonian (Xbox 360, Wii) 
• Zynga – Mafia Wars 2 (facebook)
• WeRule (iphone, ipad)
• WeFarm (iphone, ipad)
• WeCity (iphone, ipad)
• And others.. (NDA)

Other projects

• TI: Total Immersion Software (US Military)

Participation in Events/Contest and Projects

• Creanimax 2008 – 3rd place Winner in the contest “Best Videogame for PC and Game Console” with our project Unity.
• YoFrankie! – Blender Open Game, Aditional artist contributions (I did a very small contribution to the YoFrankie project  )

Hobbies and Interest

• Hobbyist/Amateur Game Developer
• Video Games
• Open Source software
• Clay sculpting
• Sports / Fitness
• Motorcycles
• Learn

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Below are some pictures of Low Polygon Next-Gen Game props as well as some high-polygon models (untextured) I’ve made for practice or in my spare time, also while help in the training of people interested in learn or to improve their skills in 3d graphics in my personal forum for free training.

Click on the pictures to see higher resolution

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Ingame video here:

Thanks for reading 🙂