Mager Kamel Aquino
About
Senior Digital Character Artist with experience in the AAA game industry, focusing on 3D character modeling and production support for narrative characters, main characters, and NPCs.
Throughout my professional journey, I have had the privilege to work within talented teams, learning from their expertise and contributing where needed to help support early-stage projects and late-stage productions.
Outside of production, I dedicate time to personal projects to explore different creative ideas, visual storytelling through art direction decisions, and technical learning to keep refining my craft.
I also train daily with AI models to master them: what each one can do, where its limits are, and how to apply it to my ideas and to work of any kind. With them I build tools of every type, 2D art, 3D art, videos, technical tools for specialized programs, documentation and writing. I work mainly with Claude by Anthropic (its model family and Claude Code), OpenAI ChatGPT models, Higgsfield, Perplexity and Gemini, and I also use Kimi, GLM-5.3, Grok, DeepSeek and others.
I create both with and without AI, to stay current through this technological surge and its transitions. Transparency is my rule: whenever AI is used in a tool, an artwork, a video or a document, I state it. When a concept art was made with AI, it is labelled.
Experience
Collaborated with the art team since early production to support character goals, working under the guidance of the project creative and art direction to contribute to early 3D concepts and test models for visual inspiration.
Joined the core team during pre-production to help develop an early version of the main protagonist, delivering high-resolution assets within franchise guidelines.
Assisted the character art team late in production with high-resolution modeling, texturing, baking for some main narrative heads.
Worked alongside the character team on hard-surface modeling, organic modeling, texturing, and 3D concepting tasks.
Helped the main theory professor and his course with the character art practical lab, providing direct computer-lab support to answer student questions and assist with their 3D modeling workflows.
Worked with the character team on main and narrative characters under technical constraints.
Joined the character art team late in production to assist with the development of some narrative characters and NPCs.
Worked with the character team on main and narrative characters within production pipeline constraints.
Worked with the Art Director and a concept artist during pre-production, utilizing provided Egyptian historical references to help translate concepts into the initial 3D visual style execution.
Joined the character art team late in production to assist with the modeling of one secondary narrative character.
Worked with the team to assist with modeling for the main protagonist and supported various digital sculpture projects.
I started as a Junior Character Artist assisting highly talented senior character artists with props and NPCs, and was trusted over time to work alongside them on main and co-op narrative characters.
Special thanks to Pascal Beaulieu, Hau Nghiep Phan, Daniel Bordeleau, Jacques Marcoux, Jean-Francois Arseneau, The Chinh Ngo, and all the team for their deep passion for the craft, generous knowledge sharing, and invaluable artistic and technical guidance that truly launched my professional journey and deepened my passion for character art.
Education
I have experience in various aspects of 3D work, having explored every facet, but I've found my expertise in character modeling.
Courses
Associated with NAD, School of Digital Arts, Animation and Design - UQACLanguages
Art Portfolio
Characters, creatures and 3D concepts, from AAA production to personal work. Tap a cover to open the project. Any work made with AI carries the label AI-ASSISTED.
Ideas Portfolio
Ideas I am building, shown at every stage. Each one has its vision, its blueprint and its progress. The ones that work can be opened and tested here.