NATALIE RUBIO
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.
natalierubiostudio@gmail.com
Illustrator
Indesign
Rhinocerous
SketchUp Premire Pro
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Maya
Unreal Engine
Nuke
Substance Painter
After Effects
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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
Annenberg Radio News, 2025
Southern California Institute of Architecture
Bachelor of Architecture, 2019-2024
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo