Blender 3d artist & Teacher
Horizon worlds creator & Typescript developer
Unity Certified Professional Artist
2022-2025
art & Animation
art & Animation
Short Film Projects
Part of your world
Video project
Part of Your Horizon World | Music Video Parody | Virtual Reality Mermaid Violet, a mermaid living in virtual reality, sings about her greatest wish. Video filmed in Meta Horizon Worlds on the Quest VR platform Video produced in Blender and Premiere Pro Music arranged and mixed in Logic “Part of Your Horizon World” was filmed and produced by Mikey Ace. Original lyrics by Mikey Ace.
You are loved
Video project
You Are Loved | Original Song + Video | Virtual Reality | Meta Horizon Worlds ”You Are Loved” is an original song with a message for everyone: No matter how difficult life gets, just know you are not alone and you are loved. I wrote, recorded, and produced the music in Logic Pro, and I filmed the video in the virtual reality platform Meta Horizon Worlds and produced it in Blender. Featuring these VR performances: Hey_DiZzy on the drums MonicaRayne on the keys VioletVoxx on the vocals MikeyAce on the guitar
Balloon Drop
Video project
Happy New Year! “Balloon Drop” is an original 3D animation I made in 2 weekends using Blender software.
PineYapple
Video project
Children's Animated Series
33,ooo subs on YouTube
Art, animation, and vocal mixing by Mikey Ace Studios vocals and choreography by Lauren G
Teaching Experience
Intro to Blender
In 2024, I developed and taught an 8-week Blender 3D modeling course to an amazing group of Meta Horizon Worlds creators, many of whom had never used Blender before. I designed a course tailored to beginners that gave them a solid grounding in 3D principles while helping them create their own art quickly. And for more intermediate users, the course also offered plenty of tips, shortcuts, optimizations, and workflow ideas. I’m very proud of what these students accomplished in a short time, and a gallery of their final projects (3D isometric rooms) is on display in Rockstar University, one of my Worlds.
Student Final Projects
curriculum and my notes
Below is the curriculum for the 8-week Intro to Blender 3D course I taught:
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Week 1: Intro to the Blender interface and basic modeling tools. Homework: create a snowman.
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Week 2: Modeling techniques, editing modes, and keyboard shortcuts. Homework: model something using only cubes, or model a sword.
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Week 3: Modifiers, including subdivision surface and color texture. Homework: Create and texture a bowling pin.
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Week 4: Node system for creating shaders. Homework: Apply materials to objects.
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Week 5: UV unwrapping, marking seams, and techniques for quickly modeling and texturing realistic buildings. Homework: UV unwrap a cereal box.
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Week 6: Texture painting tools and shortcuts. Homework: create and texture paint an egg.
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Week 7: Lighting objects and scenes, camera techniques, and rendering images. Homework: complete final project, a 3D isometric room featuring all the techniques we learned.
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Week 8: Graduation and presentation of final projects, including Q&A. Final projects are on view in the art gallery at Rockstar University.
Course Images
Other Teaching Experience
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Guest lectured a Blender seminar for game design students at the New York City College of Technology (2021)
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Conducted an Intro to Blender workshop for the UnityNYC User Group (2019)
Meta Horizon Worlds
Mall Mayhem
4th Place Winner: 2024 Mobile Short loops Competition
Find all 5 items in this fun, fast-paced scavenger hunt through a shopping mall. Powerups and Traps add to the Mayhem!
Star Chasers
mini Games Mayhem
It’s 10 Worlds in 1 in this ultimate party game! Compete with other players to collect the most stars in fun mini games. Each game is 3 rounds played in different randomly selected maps, and each round is 90 seconds of mayhem. Watch out for the Big Boss Kitty – a giant robot with laser eyes! From dungeons to icebergs to outer space, “Star Chasers: Mini Games Mayhem” brings wild, fast-paced fun.
Rockstar university
5,500 Likes
Rockstar University encompasses all genres of music. In different classrooms, you can learn to play piano, guitar, drums, and other instruments; take classes in a recording studio featuring singing lessons, karaoke, and hip-hop tracks; and produce music videos with different backdrops, props, and set pieces. Finally, you and your band can take the main stage and rock out with fireworks and special effects. Now showcasing students’ final projects in VR in a dedicated art gallery from the 8-week "Intro to Blender" course I taught.
Pizza Party
9,000 Likes
Build, bake, eat, and deliver delicious realistic pizzas in this fun role-playing party game! How many pizzas can you make and deliver? Now serving Ace Cola and Ice Cream from the Ice Cream Truck. Featuring a live DJ.
Taco Party
2,400+ Likes
"Taco Party" is a fun role-playing restaurant adventure set on a gorgeous tropical island. Players make realistic tacos and then deliver them in an awesome way: launching tacos out of cannons to customers on rafts in the ocean, with dolphins jumping around. By making and delivering tacos and doing other fun tasks, players earn in-world "Ace Bucks" to spend on tacos, soda, ice cream, and water rides. Every Tuesday, we have "Taco Tuesday," with a special sunset theme, fireworks, party games, music, boat rides, and more.
Featured in Meta Connect Hub World 2024
Fun House
6,500+ Likes
With daily events and more than 6,500 likes, Fun House has many carnival rides, games, performance stage, and a live DJ. Fun for everyone.
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Ace of Clubs
A VR experience
With nightly dance parties and more than 6,500 likes, Ace of Clubs is one of the most popular party hangouts in Meta Horizon Worlds.
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Parakeet
Castle
Awarded 3rd place
The 2022 VR Builders’ Competition for Meta Horizon Worlds challenged artists and developers to create an unforgettable adventure in virtual reality … in 5 weeks.
In this fantasy adventure game, you and your friends set out on a quest through the enchanted Parakeet Castle. You must find and confront the Evil Bunnies to win back the Magic Feather that gives birds the ability to fly. Conquer challenges, solve puzzles, find fun surprises, listen to original music, and enjoy an action-packed boss battle! Fun for everyone who loves exciting and whimsical adventures.
Game Jam Collaborations
Global Game Jam 2021
Farm Fighter
Winner of Best Multiplayer Game. "Couch Crew Award".
XR Brain Jam 2019
Mosquitos vs Humans VR
Winner of Product Potential.
UnityNYC XR Jam 2019
AR Dollar fights
Winner of Most Ridiculous Game.
Global Game Jam 2019
Home is a Good Book
Winner of best use of Microsoft Azure tech.
