Natalie Asport

Natalie is a video game developer, artist, writer, educator, songwriter, and musician. She studied computer animation at Full Sail and she currently serves as a Senior Prop Artist at NetherRealm Studios (home of the Mortal Kombat franchise). Before working at NetherRealm, Natalie was an Environment Artist and a Vehicles and Weapons Artist at Avalanche Studios, working on AAA titles including Just Cause 3, Just Cause 4, RAGE 2: TerrorMania DLC and Contraband. She has also worked as a primary 3D artist for Visuals for Law, creating CG medical models of the human anatomy to use in court cases, and as a freelance VFX Artist on various creative projects. Natalie serves as an adjunct professor at NYU Game Center teaching "3D Modeling for Games," a course she co-designed. She co-authored the technical book Beginning 3D Game Assets Development Pipeline (Apress, 2022) and has been selected as a speaker at various game development events including Playcrafting: Women in Games and NYC ACM SIGGRAPH.