Derek Obonga

About

I bring creative visions to life through 3D modeling, texturing, lighting, animation, and rendering. I have a keen eye for details and a strong understanding of color and composition. My extensive experience spans across industries including gaming, digital design, and NFT marketplaces, allowing me to create stunning and realistic visuals.

Experience

• 3D Generalist · Realdini2025-01-01 –

  Developing 2D/3D assets and animations for game environments and characters. Collaborating with designers to ensure cohesive visuals that align with gameplay. Learning and contributing to art implementation using Unreal Engine.

• Senior Digital Designer · PixlePro2022-12-01 – 2025-02-01

  Collaborate with marketing, product, and development teams to design and deliver high-impact digital assets, including websites, social media campaigns, motion graphics, and email visuals that align with brand strategy and business goals. Maintained and evolve digital brand guidelines by creating consistent design systems across channels, and clearly communicating visual rationale to stakeholders and creative teams.

• Art Director · NFTb Gaming Hub2021-04-01 – 2022-11-01

  Led the creative vision for a cutting-edge NFT marketplace. Provided creative leadership to a team of talented artists, guiding them to create visually stunning and conceptually rich NFT collections. Conceptualized NFT drops and refined the user interface to ensure a seamless and visually captivating user experience. Crafted immersive experiences for users, making NFT ownership an artistic journey. Engaged with the NFT community to gather feedback and preferences, translating them into dynamic art collections and features. Stayed at the forefront of NFT trends, ensuring the marketplace was always innovative and in line with industry developments.

• Product Designer · Scelloo2021-01-01 – 2021-05-01

  Responsible for user research, information architecture, interaction and visual design, prototyping and user testing across web and mobile products. Collaborated with product managers, business partners and engineers to help define product requirements and product road map. Analysed quantitative and qualitative data to solve problems.

• Product Designer · The Tandem Media2018-11-01 – 2020-12-01

  Created wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas. Executed all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering. Presented and defended designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders.

• Digital Artist · Adaptive UX2015-05-01 – 2018-10-01

  Conceptualized and created original sketches and illustrations for use in marketing materials, video editing, web design and print media. Managed, prioritize, and execute multiple projects at once under tight deadlines. Worked with Adobe Creative Suite particularly Photoshop and Illustrator, as well as illustration devices like Wacom tab.

Education

• Google pour les prosUX Design
• Udemy Alumni3d Modelling
• Invision StudioPrinciples of UX Design
• Ebonyi State UniversityBachelor's degree, Microbiology and Brewing Science

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