Laura Borgen
Senior VFX Artist at Gardens Interactive
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolLaura Borgen is a Senior VFX Artist based in Los Angeles with 11 years of experience crafting visual effects for games and narrative media, currently creating polished sparkles and energy effects at Gardens Interactive. She led VFX at Wonderstorm on the AAA-quality ARPG The Dragon Prince: Xadia, collaborating across technical art, combat, animation, UI/UX, and sound to maintain a cohesive visual language. Proficient in Maya, Photoshop, After Effects, Unity, ZBrush and XNormal, she pairs traditional art training (BFA in Digital Art from DigiPen) with hands-on asset implementation and pipeline-savvy problem solving. Her background spans indie development, contract consulting for VR and toy studios, and mentoring roles—bringing both artistic direction and practical production experience to cross-disciplinary teams. An understated strength is her history of co-directing narrative campaigns and producing community assets (artbooks, icons, wallpapers), showing a knack for storytelling-driven VFX beyond isolated effects work.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Digital Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Digital Art at DigiPen Institute of TechnologyMoorpark CollegeCalifornia Art InstituteGithub contributions (4)
VirsixInc/brainrushRoom
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:70 commits, 70 pushes in 1 month
Puppypulp/ballin-boo
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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