Beata Smalgren is a passionate daredevil animator and artist, who really appreciates challenges, collaboration with other artists and constantly learning new skills. She travelled across the world to pursue her dreams - become the best animator she could ever be. Beata aquired knowledge and experience in art at Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where she graduated with BFA in Animation and Visual Effects.
Beata excelled as a 2D Technical Animator and visual effects artist at a global mobile gaming company Playsoft (Product Madness), working on creating games for clients like EA Sports, Nickelodeon, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Bandai Namco and many others.
The artist was a 3D lead animator at E-Games, responsible for animation, modelling, rigging of Dream of Gods MOBA game characters. Beata also held the position of a Senior Animator at Mancala Gaming, a slot games company.
Moreover, Beata worked as one of the lead animators on a 2D animation short Kupala Night at Studio X based in San Francisco, which won 2nd place in Student Film category in The World Animation Celebration fest 2017. Beata was also a winner of the 2D Puppet Rigging award at Spring Show 2017 (Academy of Art University contest for best student work).
Since then she worked at MineBest and Cloud Best, both companies with a challenging environment where she mastered her animation and visual effects skills, as well as learned motion graphics animation working with both motion arts and marketing teams.
Contact: beata.smalgren@gmail.com