Bio Natalie Rubio is an art director with a background in architecture working across film, landscapes, and gallery spaces. Extraction, her speculative film, explores anthropogenic terraforming, imagined futures, and the cultural narratives of deep-earth minerals. 

Natalie works as a production designer and art director on independent short films and thesis films for AFI and USC. Alongside her work in art departments, Natalie acted as technical lead for a LACMA-organized initiative to document post-fire sites using LiDAR to digitally reconstruct landscapes. Through material and spatial storytelling, her work grounds speculative narratives in environments shaped by both disaster and design.

Contact 619.977.8139
natalierubiostudio@gmail.com

SoftwarePhotoshop
Illustrator
Indesign
Rhinocerous
SketchUp
Premire Pro
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Blender
Maya
Unreal Engine 
Nuke
Substance Painter
After Effects
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CreditsART DEPARTMENT
Extraction
- Production Designer, Speculative Short Film 
ISO Hitman - Production Designer, Independent Short Film
UNITY - Production Designer, Chapman Thesis Film
Firing Squad 2 - Art Director, Independent Short Film
Hardly Working Episodes 1+2 - Art Director, Short Series
Mother Nature - Art Director, Independent Short Film
Kissing Infared - Art Director, Music Video
The Selection - Art Director, USC Master’s Film
Keepsake - Set Decorator, Independent Short Film
Firing Squad 1 - Set Decorator, AFI Cycle 3
The Night I Fought Death - Set Decorator, AFI Short

GALLERY

Art Within the Craft - Living Spaces, 2025
Altadena Task Force
- Resilient Futures, 2025
Disclosure -
The Post-Human Sublime, 2024
Abstract Show - Space Junk, 2023


Press/PublicationsLA Downtown News, 2025
Annenberg Radio News, 2025

EducationMaster of Science in Fiction and Entertainment, 2024-2025
Southern California Institute of Architecture

Bachelor of Architecture, 2019-2024
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo