Technical Environment Artist
Real-Time 3D · Environment Systems · Tools
I build real-time environments and the systems behind them: modular kits, asset pipelines, and technical workflows.
RISD Industrial Design graduate based in Puerto Rico, focused on Technical Environment Art and Technical Art. My background spans Blender environment art, game development, VR, hardware prototyping, and visual storytelling.
Now: building a modular environment kit in Blender and Unreal Engine 5. Next: materials, profiling, Houdini, and Python, then C++ and real-time rendering.
Based in Puerto Rico. Pursuing Technical Environment Art and Technical Art opportunities in games and real-time 3D.
Environment art for a shipped game, from Blender into the engine.
Environment Art · Game Development · Blender / Godot
A first-person horror puzzle game shipped by an 18-person student team. I modeled, UV-mapped, and textured environments and props in Blender, brought them into Godot, and ran playtests.
Role: 2D/3D artist, Brown–RISD Game Developers · Feb–May 2025
Tools: Blender · Godot 4.4
Read the Hungry Haus case studyWorking inside hard constraints: a NASA competition rover and a VR learning app.
Technical Systems · CAD · Fabrication · Engineering Constraints
Seven steering iterations to resolve interlocking geometry conflicts (suspension, leg clearance, ground clearance, turning radius), then fabrication in carbon fiber for RISD’s human-powered rover.
Role: Steering co-designer and fabricator, RISD Rover Team · Sep–Dec 2025
Tools: SolidWorks · Fusion 360 · 3D printing · Carbon-fiber layup
Read the NASA HERC steering case study
Spatial Computing · Real-Time 3D · Blender
Designed reusable in-headset tablet systems for a Meta Quest science app, sized for hand tracking, and modeled 3D molecules in Blender for the app.
Role: Product designer, remote · Jun–Aug 2023
Tools: Meta Quest · Blender · Photoshop
Read the CurioXR case studyLong-term: C++, graphics math, and real-time rendering.
Research, visual communication, and production: long projects I carried to the finish.
Visual Communication · Research · Production
A science and paleontology YouTube channel I researched, wrote, directed, and edited: 127K+ subscribers, 38M+ views, and a Spinosaurus documentary with 36M+ views on its own.
Read about Enchiridion
Animation · Short Film
Short films on refugees, the ocean, and human rights: a YoungArts Winner, global 2nd place in Young Reporters for the Environment, and a Bow Seat Bronze Award.
Watch the award-winning filmsIndustrial design, earlier games, graphic design, music, and visual art, sorted by discipline.
Video Game DesignAbyssal Facility kit, The Wendigo (Unreal Engine 5), Koliar AR card game
Industrial DesignMaip animatronic, Parasaurian instrument, Isopod Chair
Film & VideoContest shorts, animation, motion graphics
Visual ExplorationsNICE utensil and sketchbook studies
Visual ArtsPainting and studio work
Graphic DesignLa Lanza student newspaper, posters
MusicAlbum-art seriesI graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in May 2026 with a BFA in Industrial Design. It trained me to think in systems, spatial relationships, constraints, and prototypes.
I’ve modeled and textured environments in Blender for a shipped Godot game, built 3D assets for a Meta Quest app, made a real-time cinematic in Unreal Engine 5, and iterated a NASA competition rover’s steering through seven versions.
Across that work I became more interested in the systems that make environments work than in any single asset: modular construction, pipelines, materials, tools, and performance. That is what I’m building toward now.
Before this, I built Enchiridion, a science channel with 127K+ subscribers and 38M+ views. It taught me to research deeply, iterate against data, and finish long projects.
More about my backgroundPursuing Technical Environment Art and Technical Art opportunities in games and real-time 3D. Email is the best way to reach me, in English or Spanish.
raul@rfalcon.com