Rachel Quitevis

VFX Artist

Dallas, TX, United States

Summary

Hello! I'm a VFX Artist from Dallas, Texas. I've shipped projects such as Destiny 2 Renegades Expansion, Doom The Dark Ages, God of War Ragnarok, Borderlands 3, and Super Lucky's Tale.

I had the privilege of exploring several disciplines of 3D art while contracting at Playful, where I began my career in the video games industry. At Gearbox, I provided art contract support to the character and level art teams to get Borderlands 3 and its DLCs optimized and out the door.

During the pandemic in 2020, I returned to school to pursue real-time VFX. A year later, I completed my VFX reel and signed a contract with Santa Monica Studio to work on God of War Ragnarok, in my first official role as a VFX Artist.

In June 2023, I celebrated my sixth anniversary as a game developer and my first anniversary with Blizzard Entertainment working on their new IP, the unannounced Survival Game.

I am currently an Intermediate VFX Artist at the co-development studio Beyond-FX, and I am elated to be part of their team!

Besides video games, I also love bonding with all my animals, working on my 1990 Mazda Miata, reading books, rock climbing, drawing, singing and songwriting on my guitar, collecting plants, and juggling 12 other creative hobbies.

Skills

Software proficiency

Houdini

EmberGen

LiquiGen

Substance 3D Designer

Substance 3D Painter

Photoshop

Premiere

After Effects

Blender

Maya

ZBrush

Unreal Engine

Unity

Reel

Productions

- Video Game
  Destiny 2 Renegades
- Year
  2025
- Role
  Cinematic VFX Artist
- Company
  Bungie
- Video Game
  Doom The Dark Ages
- Year
  2025
- Role
  VFX Artist
- Company
  id Studio
- Video Game
  God of War Ragnarok
- Year
  2022
- Role
  VFX Artist
- Company
  Santa Monica Studio
- Video Game
  Borderlands 3
- Year
  2019
- Role
  Character Art, Level Art
- Company
  Gearbox Software
- Video Game
  Super Lucky's Tale
- Year
  2017
- Role
  Art Intern
- Company
  Playful Corp

Experience

VFX Artist at Beyond-FX
Remote, US
April 2024 - Present
Collaborations:

Doom The Dark Ages (2025) by id Studio

Destiny 2: Renegades (2025) by Bungie

GDC Speaker 2025 "Are You Visually Literate? Crafting Clear and Satisfying VFX"

GDC Speaker 2026 "Controlled Chaos: 12 Principles of Design for VFX"

- Creating cinematics and gameplay VFX for external client projects.

- Learning client's tools and establishing relationships with their team to fit seamlessly into their pipeline.

- Communicating with client team on a daily basis to align goals and expectations.

- Contributing VFX knowledge and assets to Beyond-FX's internal database.

- Engaging in semi-weekly internal art reviews.|

- Pursuing continued education in VFX from internal peers and external resources.
Associate VFX Artist at Blizzard Entertainment
Irvine, CA
May 2022 - March 2024
Unannounced Survival Game (sunset)

- Created particle VFX for creatures, weapons, encounters, and player combat.

- Developed upon VFX art style with VFX team and art director.

- Developed VFX tools for proprietary engine software with VFX graphics engineer.

- Authored shaders and materials in-engine.

- Authored textures using Photoshop and Substance Designer.

- Authored flipbooks via custom pyro and fluid simulations using EmberGen and Houdini.

- Created and implemented particle effects according to Designer vision while adhering to visual development style.
VFX Artist (Contract) at Sony Santa Monica Studio
Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
April 2021 - May 2022
Created particle system FX for environments, player interaction indicators, hazards, breakables, and puzzles according to the vision of the art director, FX lead, and designers. Coordinated with designers to implement FX in SMS’ proprietary engine.
Artist Contractor at Gearbox Software
Frisco, TX
January 2019 - April 2020
Borderlands 3 (2019)

- Technical art support for the character team.

- Created masks for custom textures and skins, integrated masks to material shaders.

- Modeled, modified, and textured interchangeable character accessories.

- Optimized textures and materials to increase engine performance.

- Textured and hand inked materials on Scourge Boss for Takedown DLC

- Art support for Level Art team.

- In-editor painting terrain, foliage, and applying decals to suit environment compositions and drive lore.
Artist Contractor at Playful Corp
McKinney, TX
June 2017 - November 2018
Wildcard (in production)

High poly prop modeling for proof of concept pieces.

Star Child (sunset)

VR development. Environment art, 3D modeling, technical art, animation, texture authoring, asset troubleshooting and optimization, VFX, lighting, camera editing, voiceover work.

Super Lucky’s Tale, DLC I & II (November 2017)

Collision optimization on all environment assets and bug fixes post shipment. VFX and voiceovers for DLC. Occasionally donned the Lucky mascot suit.

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