NATALIE RUBIO
Natalie works as a production designer and art director on independent short films and has collaborated with other young professionals from USC, AFI, and Chapman. 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. Recently she worked directly with Production Designer Alex McDowel (Fight Club, Minority Report) to develop concept art and 3D models in Blender and Unreal Engine for a speculative future of Re-Enchantment. Through material and spatial storytelling, her work grounds speculative narratives in environments shaped by both disaster and design.
natalierubiostudio@gmail.com
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Extraction - Production Designer, Speculative Short Film
ISO Hitman - Production Designer, Independent Short Film
MILO - Production Designer, Independent Short Film
UNITY - Production Designer, Chapman Thesis Film
Sabes Que Te Quiero - Art Director, AFI 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 Film
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