Santio Chen
Santio Chen
3D Generalist and Visual Dev Artist
Brooklyn, United States

About

Santio Chen is a 3D Generalist and Visual Development artist with a background in architecture. Her deepest passion is using visual language to tell stories — to design stylized worlds and characters and translate them into cohesive 3D spaces.

Her work always achieves a subtle balance: stylized, but grounded. She designs with a distinct visual voice without losing the weight and believability that makes a world feel real. It's a quality that shows up across her characters, environments, and the worlds they inhabit.

Selected for the SIGGRAPH 2024 Student Exhibition and the ASIFA-East 2024 Official Selection.

Santio loves hiking. She has encountered bears four times in Whistler and survived hypothermia in the Azores. Clearly, she is hard to stop.

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Skills

Visual DevelopmentCharacter Design3D Visualization3D ModelingLightingTexturingHard Surface Modeling

Software proficiency

After Effects
After Effects
Illustrator
Illustrator
Maya
Maya
Nuke
Nuke
Photoshop
Photoshop
Substance 3D Painter
Substance 3D Painter
Marmoset Toolbag
Marmoset Toolbag
Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine
ZBrush
ZBrush
Premiere
Premiere
Pro Tools
Pro Tools
Audition
Audition
CLIP STUDIO PAINT
CLIP STUDIO PAINT
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