Juan Pedro Salvo
Born into an artistic family, Juan Pedro studied drawing, painting and sculpting from his early years. After high school, he went on to study film school at Escuela de Cine del Uruguay (ECU), focusing on art direction and photography. His professional career started in the world of advertising, mainly drawing storyboards and illustrations.
After many years of work as an illustrator and post-producer in production companies, he had the opportunity to change fields and pursue one of his true passions: video games. From 2012 to 2022, he worked at Pomelo Games as an art director, where he combines all his skills leading the art team to deliver beautiful mobile games.
Since 2022 he works at Nimble Giant as a Lighting Artist with the Environment Team.
Talks and workshops
- "FUERTE Y CLARO: Arte para juegos". Level UY. Montevideo, Uruguay, 13/12/2018.
- "Técnicas para mejorar tu proyecto Artístico". UYCG. Montevideo, Uruguay, 20/11/2017.
- “Introducción al Concept Art en videojuegos aplicado a la experiencia". Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño. Madrid, España, 29/11/2014.