Nikie Monteleone currently spends her days working on new and exciting creative workflows with the Art & Development team at Adobe Substance. With 20 years of entertainment industry and graphic design experience, her specialty is making things look shiny, matte, dull, bright, realistic, or stylized with textures, materials, and lighting. She has worked with some of the top animation studios including Nickelodeon, DreamWorksTV, LAIKA Studios and their spin off studio HouseSpecial on a wide range of TV series, commercials and movies. Now stepping into the tech world, she is using that experience to push creative boundaries by breaking buttons and pushing pixels to help create more artist friendly workflows! When she's not busy doing what she loves, catch her in LA enjoying any and all types of cheese with her adorably cute but crazy Boston Terrier.