Ciprian Gheorghe Ponea

--Str. Pantelimon nr. 301, bl. C1, Sector 2, Bucuresti, Romania https://www.artstation.com/pogheoci CIPRIAN GHEORGHE PONEA Profile: Skill Knowledge I’m a young artist from Romania with a mad drive to get on top of the industry SOFTWARE I’ve always absolutely LOVED video games, and my greatest childhood horror was the thought of growing up and not being able to play video-games anymore. But as fortune prevailed, I’ve found my passion almost 8 years ago, which is 3D sculpting + modeling; I have never stopped since then learning, improving and getting better; My dream is to become one of the best character artist out there and I’m burning coal every day to get there! I just love to talk and work together with people, sharing the same drive and interest of making awesome 3D Art! Employment History 3D Environment Artist at Ubisoft, Bucharest - April 2017 - Present Working as a Level Artist at Ubisoft is one of my best career milestones so far; Here, I have the chance to work with professional artists, in a corporate environment where team-play and core skills play as much role as talent and knowledge itself; After a day’s work, I like to practice my Zbrush skills which pave my road towards character artist; Freelance at Web, Bucharest - March 2016 - April 2017 Worked as a freelancer for fixed commission employer in Us; Pay; Payment was bad, sadly, but I got the chance to work from home and because the daily work was very limited, I had lots of time to better my anatomy knowledge and Zbrush skills; DTP at Matt Design, Bucharest - June 2015 - February 2016 Matdesign is a small company that designs furniture for commercial use; Working here, I had my first contact with 3D, as a become an architectural renderer, working in Rhino3D and doing renders for the furniture; -1- Zbrush Autodesk 3ds Max Substance Painter Marvelous Designer Adobe Photoshop Marmoset Toolbag SpeedTree UV Layout Topogun Game Tester at Ubisoft, Bucharest February 2014 - April 2015 Game Tester T2 Out for passion for games, this was my first job entry into the industry; Here I’ve worked on 2 projects (SplinterCell Blacklist + AC Blackflag), where I had the role of resting the build, finding and reporting bugs; -2-