3D WORKS

Hi everyone,

I'm Natalia Freitas, 3D Artist and 2D Animator.

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I LOVE Animation with all my heart  and I am dedicating my life to it!

From 2005 to 2009 I did a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts & Classical Animation at the ESCOLA DE BELAS ARTES - UFMG . There, I directed and animated my first short film (LIGTH FLIGHT, 2009). In 2010, I started working full time as a 2D Animator for multiple studios in Brazil. I had the opportunity to work on my first Feature film as a 2D animator (Ate que a Sbornia nos separe). By the end of that year, I began to teach myself 3D using online tutorials. In 2011, CAFEKA, my second short film, was released and won a few awards.

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Thanks to my new knowledge in 3D, all the short films and artworks I have done in my country, in 2011 I won a scholarship from the German government to study in their country with all expenses paid (DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst  / Postgraduate Studies in the Field of the Performing Arts ).

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In 2012 I moved to Germany, did an intensive German language course in Cologne an then started as a Quereinsteiger  at the FILMAKADEMIE BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG (Animationsinstitut) in Ludwigsburg. ​​After directing and animating my third short film ELECTROFLY, I finished my German Diplom in VFX & Animation in March 2015. Then I’ve worked for some studios in Germany as a freelance 3D Artist. By October of that year, I was one of three artists selected by the WALT DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS for their "Talent Development" program. Then I moved from Germany to the USA, where I worked as Look Development Artist on the amazing animated Film MOANA (2016). I was the only Brazilian woman working on this Film and also the first Filmakademie Alumna to work at Disney.

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After all my experience working in Brazil, Germany and USA, I'm currently living in Canada. I moved here in 2017 to work as a Texture Artist at SONY Pictures Imageworks in Vancouver (Hotel Transylvania 3 and Smallfoot). 

In 2018 I moved from Vancouver to Montreal to work as Lead Texture Artist at MILL FILM and as a Texture Artist at

MIKROS IMAGE on The Spongebob Movie 3. In 2020, I've worked as a remote freelance 3D artist on some amazing projects for NICKELODEON  (Star Trek: Prodigy) and PASSION PICTURES. Since November 2020,  I've been working as a Surfacing Artist (texturing, shading and grooming) at DNEG  (Vancouver).

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If you would like to know more about me, please let's get in touch! 

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Cheers,

Nat