Open to full-time roles · 2026

DAMIANCONTRERAS

Motion & visual artist moving between 3D animation, filmmaking, and photography — adapting the craft to whatever the story needs. Like my namesake, I change to fit the work.Streetlife photography — coming soon.

Portrait of Damian Contreras standing in a forest
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Selected work

Three disciplines · one eye
3D character render — cel-shaded figure in dramatic light
Blender · Animation Layout · Lighting
Motion / 3D

3D Animations

Character animation and scene layout in Blender — posing, cameras, timing, and lighting across a range of styles.

The Goji Project — two figures on a bench at dusk by a lake
Short film · 24fps Assistant Director
Film

The Goji Project

A narrative short where I served as assistant director — shot planning, scheduling, and keeping the day moving on set.

California scrub-jay perched among green foliage
In the field f/5.6 · 1/1000s
Wildlife

Wildlife Portfolio

Patience as a tool — birds, mammals, and the small things most people walk past. Composition, light, and timing in the wild.

3D animation

A reel is on the way — for now, the work itself

Under the name Dameleon, I create animations — character work, scene layout, and lighting in Blender, posted as I make them.

Long-form

Shorts

Wildlife — field work

Patience · light · timing
Damian Contreras About

Most people pick a lane. I never could.

Blender Animation Layout Lighting Premiere DaVinci Resolve Photography Color

Some weeks I'm animating a shot in Blender. Some weeks I'm waist-deep in a field waiting for a hawk to land. Some weeks I'm in an edit timeline at 2 a.m. The throughline is the eye — composition, light, timing — and a willingness to learn whatever the work demands.

That range is the point. I can take an idea from blank file to finished frame without handing it off, which is what a small team actually needs. Like my namesake, I adapt — and I'm looking for the right place to do it full-time.