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Meet Mat 3 - The 3D Digital Painting Contest

Adobe Substance 3D introduced our little mascot with the first Meet MAT contest back in 2017, he has become kind of a big deal. With hundreds of paint jobs, a dedicated book, collectible figurines and various 3D printed versions, MAT has been busy! And today, MAT is back. He changed a bit. He grew. He needs new texturing, new looks. He needs you.

Meet Mat 3 - The 3D Digital Painting Contest
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Christophe Desse

Christophe Desse

Lead Technical Artist | Naughty Dog

Christophe worked as a special effect artist and modeller for advertising, tv, film, and games in France, Germany and Singapore. He is working at Naughty Dog in Santa Monica since 2006, first as an environment artist, then a Technical Artist artist and now as a technical lead artist. He started to thinker with 3d software back in 1991 and is now experienced with most industry-standard packages and workflows. When he is not working on industry defining AAA titles at work ( Uncharted 1, Uncharted 2 Uncharted 3, the Last of Us, Uncharted 4, Lost Legacy and currently The Last of Us 2). Beside teaching texturing and rendering at the Gnomon school, he enjoys creating cartoony or stylized characters and supercharged muscle cars.