Huntrezz Janos
3D Designer
Afro-Hungarian Angeleno
Transcorporeal Artificer
Experienced and accomplished 3D Designer with proven skills producing captivating visual effects, artworks, and animations for multimedia projects, video games and film. Has a rich history designing Avatars, environments, and objects and products for use in augmented reality, virtual reality, architectural construction, and additive manufacturing alike. Proficient in a multitude of industry-standard software such as Maya, ZBrush, Solidworks, Blender, Cinema4d, Unreal Engine, and Unity, among any and all other 3D softwares, Huntrezz excels in developing high-quality textures, lighting effects, motion capture, animations, interactive experiences, and video works. With an accompanying knowledge of computer systems, AI, networking, and programming, there is no virtual project that is out of reach for this dedicated professional. Huntrezz is a creative problem solver, a technical artist, and a computer scholar combining practical expertise with academic rigor, making her a valuable asset in any creative team.
I was born in Los Angeles in the late 1990s to Hungarian Immigrant to the united states- an architect by the name of Szabó Gyöngyi and to the underground metal icon known as Scoonie Gee, and raised between the hills of Mt. Washington and the medieval streets of Hungary. My life has always unfolded at the intersection of design, protest, pedagogy, and play- old, and new cities and digital annd physical frontiers. Shaped by the layered cultures of L.A.—from community gardens and classrooms to late nights at DIY warehouse shows and alsoo inside my vr headsets—I've grown into someone who sees infrastructure and aesthetics, technology and community- as deeply linked. I move through the city as both caretaker and connector, collaborating on sustainability projects, stewarding chosen family, and building bridges across activist, queer, and tech-forward communities. Online, I use the internet not to escape but to extend: remixing archives, distributing resources, and sustaining bonds across borders. With advanced study in integrated design, business, and technology, I bring a grounded yet imaginative approach to collective survival—whether I'm constructing my off-grid hillside home, traveling between worlds, making visuals for raves, guiding students, or participating in talks, gallery, and museum shows.
ℌ𝔘𝕹𝐓ℜ𝖊zZ 𝐉a𝕹o𝖘 is as much herself as she is the information being relayed to you now through this sequence of symbols. Existing in flux since quantum pre-history, in a future that has long since passed, she is one with a beyond inherent to all things- an organism of light-speed determination, weaving toward a distant Antarctic destiny through a circuitous path of digital synthesis. This path unfolds through animated video/game art, 3D-printed armor, Augmented Reality, sustainable architecture, and rhyme performance, alongside an expanding constellation of increasingly esoteric practices. Participating in the generation of AR/VR, new media installations, and poetic ritual is not a choice but a function of spirit- creation as involuntary as breath. Each work is not merely authored but received, channeled through this life and body as a gesture toward shared perception. Reality, Identity, Infinity: all flicker from a divine singularity, a zero that is still becoming, still glitching open. Janos emerges again and again from her various disguises to present afro-futurist media designed to delight, confound, and confront those of us entangled in this epoch. She does not simply make—she remembers, rewires, and replays timelines. Sharing in the exploration of diversity, innovation, and the spectral joy of now is, in her words, "a joyous thing! LOL."
Experience
- Founder / Lead Coordinator – Extraterracetrill, Los Angeles (2022–2025)
- Adjunct Professor – CalArts (2022)
- 3D Graphics Teacher – Oakwood Secondary School, Hollywood (2017–2022)
- Artist/Designer – Perfect Combo LLC, Silverlake CA (2018–2020)
- Animation Instructor – Community Arts Partnership (2014–2019)
- Creative Media Camp Lead Instructor – Queen Liliuokalani Trust (2018)
- Teacher's Assistant – California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (2015–2018)
- Resident Teaching Artist – Calibraska Initiative (2017)
- Arts Integration Instructor – LAUSD, Los Angeles, CA (2017)
- Animation Tutor – Ribet Academy, Los Angeles, CA (2016)
- Creative Intern – TIGER TIGER Studios, Los Angeles, CA (2013)
Awards / Fellowships
- Onassis ONX Member (2024–Ongoing)
- Transfer Data Trust Member (2020–Ongoing)
- NAVEL Collective Artist Resident (2019–2021)
- Tate Britain Tate Collective Artist (2020)
- BioDesign Summit Presenter and Finalist @ MoMA (2019)
- Residency, West Nebraska Arts Center, NE (2017)
- Brighton Youth Film Festival Top Prize (2015)
- Congressional Art Competition Gold medalist (2014)
- Scholastic Art and Writing Gold Key (2013)
Solo Exhibitions
- Dentaxuvia – Gray Area & Telematic Arts, San Francisco (2024)
- Infilteriterations – Transfer Gallery at PhotoFairs NYC (2023)
- DR/VA – Photographers Gallery, London (2021)
- An Inorganic Nature – NAVEL LA, Los Angeles, CA (2020)
- Infilteriterations – Transfer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2020)
- Mirror Works – CalArts, Valencia, CA (2017)
- Collage Humanity – Grace Hungarian Church, Tarzana, CA (2012)
Group Exhibitions
2025
2024
- In Medias Res: Expanded – Torrance Art Museum, CA
- Love Machines – New Wight Gallery UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
- Arti_ficial Perspectives – LA Center Studios, Los Angeles, CA
- Erotic Codex – Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Extended Realities, Extended Feminisms – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Experiments in Los Angeles Cohabitation – MAK Center for Art & Architecture, West Hollywood, CA
2023
- Poncili Creacion: Our Name is Moving – Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, CA
- NOW Festival – REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
- Machine Violence – PostMasters Gallery, Manhattan, NY
- Drag/Tech and the Queer Avatar – Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- I'll Be Your Mirrm – The Modern, Fort Worth, TX
- QUEERING DEMOCRACY – BIN ALE, Budapest, Hungary
- Transfer Data Trust Preview – Oolite Arts, Miami, FL
- Bodies Bodies Bodies – OPL.XYZ, Brooklyn, NY
- OOZE, EDEN & Illegal Bodies – Stories Cafe + Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Loose Frames – Heavy Manners Library, Los Angeles, CA
- PostGender – V ELLUM LA, Hollywood, CA
- In Medias Res – Femmebit x Fera!File, Online
- Sun Potentials: Creative Research with Solar Power – Caltech Visual Culture Seminar, Pasadena, CA
2022
- ADOBE MAX – Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
- Gender Bender Time Traveller – LSD Sexshop, Kurfürstenstraße, Berlin
- I am surrounded by me – Distant Gallery, Online
- Distant Early Warnings: Gray Area Festival – Gray Area, San Francisco, CA
- Aeon Resurrection – Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
- HOTEL BLUE – SXSW, Austin, TX & V ELLUM LA + SV Studios, Los Angeles, CA
- ExtraCredit – Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, CA
2021
- FWB.art – Miami Art Basel, Miami, FL
- The Overkill Festival – Sickhouse, Enschede, Netherlands
- Athens Biennale – Athens, Greece
- Parable 003 – LACE, Hollywood, CA
- Posthuman Island – Cultural Policy, Website Online
- Kyiv Social Media Week – mubert.app, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Pieces of Me – Transfer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Framework Panel #30: Speculative Futures – Transformer DC, Washington, DC
- Affect(ion) – Murmurs LA, Los Angeles, CA
- XX:XX·XX – Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
- JunglePussy's Main Attraction Video – Online
- KaleidoLA – Laband Art Gallery LMU, Zoom Online
2020
- Defund LAPD projections – Transfer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Beyond Embodiment – Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, CA
- Hybrid Vigor: Come As All of You – Generator Bldg. CalArts, Valencia, CA
- Just Before Dawn – Church of Fun, Hollywood, CA
- Blobbies Birthday Talent Show – Church of Fun, Hollywood, CA
2019
- WYD? – NAVEL LA, Los Angeles, CA
- Afro Innovator 2019 – Skira Cielo Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
- Natural Acts Insect Party – Church of Fun, Los Angeles, CA
- Entretiempo – Leiminspace, Los Angeles, CA
- Untitled Showcase – Coaxial Arts, Los Angeles, CA
- Animation Vacation – Non Plus Ultra, Los Angeles, CA
- Sangre de Oro – Chewing Foil Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Madre Inmigrante – Rock Rose Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- SOVO Magazine #4 – Toy Factory Lofts, Los Angeles, CA
- Magnesium Presents – The Smell, Los Angeles, CA
2018
- Flip It & Reverse It – Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, CA
- OtherWorlds – The Airliner, Los Angeles, CA
- Further on, Utopia... – The Mortuary LA, Los Angeles, CA
- NALEZA – Leiminspace, Los Angeles, CA
- Malt Adult #9 – CCAD/Beeler/Canzani Center & Corrugate, Columbus, OH
- The Six: CalArts Graduation Showing – Thymele Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Xo/2 – Red Gate Recorders, Los Angeles, CA
- Aicha Qandisa – San Fernando rd Studios@ 235, Los Angeles, CA
- Clown-a-ween – California Institute of Abnormal Arts, Los Angeles, CA
- HEARTBEAT- Conveyers of the Lost Ark – Rec Center, Los Angeles, CA
- :le.f.JJ"IP'&NJNG – The Airliner, Los Angeles, CA
- Severity no.2 – Rec Center, Los Angeles, CA
2017
- Varia – The Black and White Gallery at CalArts, Valencia, CA
- Robins Nest – The Robin's Nest, Santa Clarita, CA
- Public Urban Multisensmy Presentations – The Packard, Long Beach, CA
- BioDesign Competition – Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
- CalArts Experimental Animation Showcase 2017 – REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
- Digital Arts Expo – The Mod Theatre at CalArts, Valencia, CA
- Impossi*Ball – The Vortex Dome, Los Angeles, CA
- Garden: showcase – The Black and White Gallery at CalArts, Valencia, CA
2016
- Bone Structure – C l 13 at CalArts, Valencia, CA
- NEWNOW – Off The Air, Adult Swim
2015
- Visionaria – Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy
- QTone:Queer Filmmakers of Color – Youngstown Arts Center Seattle, WA
2014
- Cannon Tunnel Showcase – US Capitol Building, Washington, DC
- Ribet Student's Show – Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
2013
- Citizenship – The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, LA, CA
- Charles Daileys Students Show – Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- CAP Animation Showcase – REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Press & Online Periodicals
References
- Kelani Nichole, Owner, Transfer Gallery
kelaniatwork@gmail.com
- Wade Wallerstein, Founder & Director, Silicon Valet
wade.wallerstein@gmail.com
- Michael Scroggins, Faculty, CalArts
661.255.1050 x2197 | aka@calarts.edu
- Glenna Avila, Artistic Director, Community Arts Partnership
661-222-2709 | gavila@calarts.edu
- John Andrews, Executive Producer, House of Cool Inc, Perfect Combo LLC
(213) 590-9019 | john@perfectcomboproductions.com
- Kristin Pepe, Department Chair, Visual Arts, Oakwood Secondary School
kpepe@oakwoodschool.org
Skills
View Skills
Computer Skills
3D Software & Tools
- Autodesk Maya
- Blender
- Cinema4D
- 3ds Max
- Houdini
- ZBrush
- Sculptris
- SketchUp
- Rhino 3D
- Solidworks
- Autodesk Fusion 360
- Autodesk Inventor
- Revit
- AutoCAD
Rendering & Visualization
- Arnold
- V-Ray
- Redshift
- KeyShot
- Luxion Key VR
- RenderDoc
Game Engines & VR
- Unity3D
- Unreal Engine
- VRchat
- Gravity Sketch
- V tuber creation
Adobe Suite & Design Tools
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- AfterEffects
- Premiere Pro
- Adobe XD
- Dimension
- Figma
- Procreate
Programming & Technical
- Python
- C#
- HTML/CSS
- WebGL
- Processing
Additional Tools & Skills
- Substance Painter
- Substance Designer
- Toon Boom
- TVPaint
- Final Cut Pro
- OBS Livestreaming
- 3D Printing
- Ultimaker Cura
- Artec Studio
- Stable Diffusion
Artistic Skills
- 3D Modeling
- Texturing
- Lighting
- Animation
- Rendering
- Rigging
- Sculpting
- UV Mapping
- Character Design
- Optimization
- Storyboarding
- Painting (Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor)
- Hand Drawn Animation
- Stop Motion Character Fabrication
- Stop Motion Animation
Physical Skills
- 3D Printing
- Physical Prototyping
- Model Making
- Assembly
- Workshop Tools
- Driving
- Motorcycle Riding
- Heavy Lifting (up to 200lbs)
- Construction
- Woodworking
- Power Tools Operation
- Computer Assembly
- Electronics Repair
- High-Reach Operations