Nikita Lebedev

Character and Creature Artist / Concept sculptor

Toronto, Canada

About

I'm a professional creature and character artist, specializing in digital sculpture. I've been working in VFX for over 12 years. I've created creature and character work for collectible statue/toy companies like McFarlane Toys, as well as feature work including "Monster Hunter", "Hellboy", the Oscar winner - Guillermo Del Toro's "Shape of Water", "Raised by Wolfes" "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter", "Vikings", "Strain", Marvel's "Inhumans" and others, including unannounced projects. I'm also a part time professor at Digital Animation and DVFX programs at Centennial College.
My range of specialty includes creature and character concept art, production ready sculpture and texturing, lookdev, FACS, etc.

Skills

Software proficiency

Maya

V-Ray

ZBrush

Mari

Nuke

TopoGun

Keyshot

Photoshop

SketchBook Pro

Substance 3D Painter

Marvelous Designer

UVLayout

Yeti

Shave and a Haircut

Marmoset Toolbag

Substance 3D Modeler

Arnold

MightyBake

Xgen

Houdini

Productions

- Movie
  Chupa
- Year
  2023
- Role
  Lead Creature and Character Artist / Concept Artist
- Company
  Mr. X Inc/MPC Toronto
- Movie
  The Shape of Water
- Year
  2017
- Role
  Lead Creature and Character Artist, Blendshape artist
- Company
  Mr. X
- Movie
  Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
- Year
  2019
- Role
  Lead Creature and Character Artist, Blendshape artist
- Company
  Mr. X
- Movie
  Hellboy
- Year
  2019
- Role
  Lead Creature and Character artist, Blendshape artist
- Company
  Mr. X
- TV Production
  Foundation
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Lead Creature and Character Artist / Concept Artist
- Company
  Mr. X Inc
- Movie
  Nightbooks
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Lead Creature and Character Artist / Concept Artist
- Company
  Mr. X Inc
- TV Production
  Raised by Wolfes
- Year
  2020
- Role
  Lead Creature and Character Artist
- Company
  Mr. X Inc
- TV Production
  The Nevers
- Year
  2022
- Role
  Lead Creature and Character Artist / Concept Artist
- Company
  Mr. X Inc
- TV Production
  Resident Evil
- Year
  2022
- Role
  Principal Creature Concept Artist
- Company
  Mr. X Inc
- Movie
  Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Lead Creature and Character Artist / Concept Artist
- Company
  Mr. X Inc
- TV Production
  La Brea
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Sr. Concept Artist
- Company
  Mr. X Inc
- Movie
  Snake eyes
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Character Concept Artist
- Company
  Mr. X Inc
- Movie
  Monster Hunter
- Year
  2020
- Role
  Lead Creature and Character Artist, Blendshape artist, Concept artist
- Company
  Mr. X
- TV Production
  American Gods
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Principal Character / Concept Artist
- Company
  Mr. X Inc
- Movie
  Da 5 bloods
- Year
  2020
- Role
  Lead Creature and Character Artist
- Company
  Mr. X
- Movie
  Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
- Year
  2017
- Role
  Sr. Creature and Character Artist
- Company
  Mr. X
- TV Production
  Godless
- Year
  2017
- Role
  Sr. Creature and Character Artist
- Company
  Mr. X
- Movie
  TAU
- Year
  2018
- Role
  Sr. Creature and Character Artist
- Company
  Mr. X
- TV Production
  The Strain S04
- Year
  2017
- Role
  Sr. Creature and Character Artist
- Company
  Mr. X
- TV Production
  Vikings S05
- Year
  2017
- Role
  Sr. Creature and Character Artist, Concept artist
- Company
  Mr. X
- Movie
  The Shannara Chronicles S02
- Year
  2017
- Role
  Sr. Creature and Character Artist
- Company
  Mr. X
- TV Production
  Inhumans
- Year
  2017
- Role
  Sr. Creature and Character Artist
- Company
  Mr. X
- Movie
  The Ottoman Lieutenant
- Year
  2016
- Role
  Character artist
- Company
  Spin VFX
- Movie
  Rupture
- Year
  2016
- Role
  Character artist
- Company
  Spin VFX
- Movie
  Man Vs
- Year
  2015
- Role
  Concept artist / character artist
- Company
  Crush Inc.

Experience

Principal Creature and Character Artist / Concept Artist at Herne Hill Media Inc.
Toronto, CA
November 2021 - Present
I'm responsible for creating character/creature concept work for production as well as for pitching for new projects to secure them for our studio. I'm also responsible for creating highly detailed realistic production ready character/creature sculptures, textures and lookdev
Lead Creature and Character Artist at Mr. X
Toronto
January 2019 - October 2021
As a Lead Character and Creature artist, I'm responsible for creating character/creature concept work for production as well as for pitches; creating highly detailed realistic production ready character/creature sculptures, textures and lookdev; creating various blendshapes - from FACS to body muscle blendshapes.
Sr. Charcter and Creature Artist at Mr. X
Toronto, Canada
January 2016 - December 2018
I'm a character and creature artist, responsible for look development, sculpting and painting of creatures and characters for feature.
Part-Time Professor at Digital Animation Program at Centennial College
Toronto, Canada
September 2016 - Present
I'm teaching Lighting and Rendering, Modeling, Sculpting classes
Character Artist at SPIN VFX
Toronto, Canada
October 2015 - January 2016
Teacher's assistant at Centennial College
Toronto, Canada
January 2015 - Present
I help students with their VFX projects (planning, modeling, rigging, rendering, compositing) as well as I teach them ZBrush.
Character concept artist at Freelance
Toronto, Canada
January 2013 - Present
Character concept art, character modeling and texturing, prototyping
Asset Artist at Call me Smith
Toronto, Canada
May 2012 - September 2015
My main responsibilities include modeling, texturing, lighting and rendering (and sometimes rigging and animation). On majority of projects I take a lead modeler/character artist role. In many instances I would get a very rough character brief or drawing and do a 3d visualization of it.

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