Digital & Game Art

Ricardo is a 3d artist, independent game developer and
teacher. In 2008 he achieved his bachelor’s degree in
industrial design, where he focused in merging the design
process with his passion for 3d art. After graduating,
Ricardo followed his ambitions, working as a 3d generalist
and creating interactive virtual environments for games.
With a wide range of knowledge, from game design, 3d
modeling, and programming, Ricardo has been a part of
several productions, ranging from games, architectural
visualization, and virtual environment design. Ricardo
joined ETIC in 2019 where he’s passionate about sharing
his wide range of knowledge and experience, helping
students find their path. When his not teaching or working
on personal projects, he likes to engage in landscape
photography, and organizing hikes with his friends in the
local game development community.

Tiago is an independent illustrator, concept artist, painter and
teacher. He has created conceptual and illustration work
professionally for a diverse range of projects in the video game,
advertising and publishing industries. He’s passionate about
teaching and helping aspiring artists to begin their careers, and
splits his time between freelance work and being the course
leader of the concept art course and concept art teacher at the
videogames course, both at the ETIC multimedia school. Tiago
currently lives, works and teaches in Lisbon, Portugal. And when
he’s not battling deadlines and working on top secret projects
that he can’t talk about, you’ll find him sketching outside,
drinking a good cappuccino, and playing one of the latest video
games.

Nuno Caroço has over 20 years of professional experience
in After Effects. Since 1996 has been experimenting with
manipulating pixels to create, Art Pieces, Illustrations,
Motion Graphics and 2D Visual Effects. Working for 3D
Architecture Visualization, Animation, Advertising and
Motion Graphics studios, into Compositing workflows and
as a Postproduction on-set supervisor both in Portugal and
abroad. With a background and master’s degree in Fine
Arts, since 2009 he collaborates as an independent trainer
in After Effects and in the areas of Postproduction, Motion
Graphics and Visual Effects. Courses that he created,
managed and developed for some schools and with programs
created by himself. In 2010 he was invited by Adobe to the
1st European Meeting of Video Leaders in London,
becoming the first Adobe Influencer in After Effects in the
country. He is also the only Adobe ACP certified specialist
in Portugal, in all Adobe After Effects released versions
since 2009, collaborating as a partner and influencer in this
software.

A busy bee since childhood. In the Gaming industry for more
than 15 years working as a Journalist, creator, show host and a
teacher. Founder of PróximoNível, one of the first big
independent gaming websites in Portugal, that led to MyGames,
a gaming website with a TV show and magazine. The doors were
open for me to create the content and host many shows and
events, and create reviews for the magazine Exame Informatica.
Working for FNAC as a content creator was just a step away, a
road that led me to apply all my knowledge and experience,
creating written and video content about videogames and
technology, and becoming responsible for communications.
Becoming a teacher was the culmination of a life goal, as
teaching and sharing my knowledge and experience with
students is one of the most rewarding things in life. When I do
have a bit of free time, you can find me playing videogames,
writing novels, watching movies, going for walks and
micromanaging my collections.

Luis worked in ITs for 14 years, before an opportunity arose
to merge two of his areas of interest: Code and Art.
After graduating in Digital Animation with recognition
through “Alda” short film that was created in 2014, he
started to work on animation and 3D art full time for TV
commercials and movies.
In 2021 he began teaching 3d modeling in the 3D Animation
and VFX course at ETIC.

After graduating in Architecture of Design in 2001, Bruno has
worked as 3D Generalist and Motion Designer in collaboration
with various animation production companies and advertising
agencies. Bruno also shares a passion for education and has
been a technical trainer for 14 years.

Ken has been teaching CGI and VFX to degree level for over 15 years and has been responsible for designing innovative degree courses across three providers, including Solent. He teaches animation, motion capture, rigging, simulation
effects, VFX coding and leads the final year projects as well as finding time for generalist freelancing work across all areas of CGI. Ken’s passion is connecting students to industry for networking and feedback on their work. He is
instrumental in organising the industry events that his courses are renowned for, where students not only hear the latest cutting-edge workflows and careers advice, but also
get to meet and interact with potential employers. Outside Solent, Ken is a family man with three daughters, and is an occasional preacher at his local church. He likes astronomy,
rugby, Formula 1, real ales and keeping chickens.