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Leanndro Ramos

Director-level 3D Character Artist/Animator specializing in real-time game and VFX pipelines

SynqMélièsJoinville, Brazil14 Years ExperienceDirector LevelWorks Flexible

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Brazil-based artist/VFX generalist building their own PC/mobile game and handling all VFX solo, using an After Effects-to-Unreal Niagara workflow. Has hands-on real-time optimization habits in Unreal (reducing casts, avoiding Event Tick, LODs, widget optimization) and leverages ChatGPT/Gemini plus Udemy/docs to upskill in Blueprint-driven systems.

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Key Strengths

  • End-to-end solo VFX creation for an in-progress PC/mobile game (explosions, attack traces)
  • Practical Unreal optimization approach (replacing casts with interfaces/event dispatchers/custom events)
  • Cross-tool VFX iteration workflow (prototype in After Effects, implement in Unreal Niagara)
  • Strong compositing/VFX experience with live-action integration (motion tracking, background replacement, 3D character insertion)
  • Uses AI tools to accelerate learning and solve game-dev/Blueprint problems (ChatGPT, Gemini Studio)

Reference Highlights

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  • High-level professional
  • Strong modeling skills
  • Strong teaching skills
  • Strong teamwork
  • Super friendly
  • Technical know-how in modeling/animation/game art
  • Honest and reliable
  • High professionalism in VFX and game art management
  • Wide experience with video editing and VFX
  • Good eye for detail
  • Understands player guidelines for immersion and polish
  • Good communication
  • Proactive helper (teaches more than asks)
  • Happy to help and support others
  • Takes feedback constructively and improves quickly
  • Self-taught/independent learner
  • Persistent
  • Veteran with many years of expertise
  • Very talented and highly skillful across multiple digital art disciplines
  • Strong leader who leads by example
  • Delivers best-looking results within constraints
  • Practical approach (keeps it simple, focuses on excellence within scope)
  • Quick to create references/direction for other artists
  • Responsive to engineering requests and requirements
  • Adapts quickly and iterates rapidly based on feedback/changes
  • Particularly strong in cartoon 3D themed projects
  • Exceptional VFX expertise (one of the most skilled the reference has met)
  • Delivers ahead of schedule
  • Proactive and ahead of project needs
  • Strong leadership
  • Effective at leading multiple teams simultaneously
  • Clear communicator (gives clear instructions)
  • Respectful collaborator
  • Invaluable team member
  • Deep art experience and perspective that clients often lack

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Experience

FundadorSynq · May 2025 – Present
FundadorUma Nova Rota · Sep 2024 – Present
Art DirectorFire Game Studios · Oct 2019 – May 2025
Art and animation directorFire Game Studios · Oct 2017 – May 2025
3D Character AnimatorPhantazma VFX · Jan 2016 – May 2019
3D AnimatorLC Barreto · Mar 2013 – Oct 2015
Visual ArtistElementos Comunicação · Mar 2012 – Feb 2013

Skills

Video EditingUnreal EngineUnityAdobe After EffectsAdobe PhotoshopTeam leadership3D Modeling2D Art3D Character ArtCharacter AnimationCreature AnimationRiggingSkinningTexturingPBR Texturing

Languages

Portuguese

Certifications

MeliesPsychology - Universidade Federal de Uberlândia - UFU

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Leanndro RamosDirector-level 3D Character Artist/Animator specializing in real-time game and VFX pipelines