Michele Balletti

About

Hello everyone! I am Michele, an Italian designer working as a Surface Designer in Germany for Volkswagen, I have 3 years of experience in the automotive industry working as a designer, 3D modeler and Clay modeler. I have a deep and structured overview of the entire process of making a car or a prototype from a design point of view and this has always given me an advantage over my colleagues who have only seen a part of the chain. In my journey in this wonderful world of manufacturers I have contributed to making; the full-scale model of the Alpine A4810 as a student, the interior of the Maserati GT2 Stradale (as a polimodeler I helped in the seat design process), in Changan I was an animator and visualize artist, in Skoda I contributed to the new lines of the 7-seater and the Combi Bev, and now I am currently working in the VW design studio in Braunschweig (DE). Thanks for the attention and let me know what do you think about my works!

Experience

• Surface Designer

  Volkswagen

  July 2024 - Current

  Germany

• Animator and CGI artist

  Esiste srl

  July 2023 - June 2024

  Italy

• Clay modeler

  Sköda Auto

  January 2023 - June 2023

  Czechia

• Intern polymodeler and animator

  Contractor for Maserati and Changan Europe

  April 2022 - August 2022

  Italy

Education

• IED Turin

  Master´s Degree in Automotive Design

  March 2020 - March 2022

  Italy

• Universita´degli studi di Bologna

  Bachelor´s Degree in Product Design

  September 2016 - December 2019

  Italy

Licenses & certification

Design skills

• 3D Modelling
• 3D Visualization
• Digital Tools
• Product Design
• Prototyping
• Rendering
• Sketching
• Storytelling

Design tools

• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop
• Alias
• Blender
• KeyShot
• VRED