Info
Creative Director & Creative Technologist · Mexico City
I'm Ethan Nava, a Creative Director and Creative Technologist based in Mexico City. For about eight years I have worked between aesthetics and technology: live shows, activation games, immersive experiences and real-time content for brands, artists and institutions.
My work runs from art direction to building the system that runs on show day: procedural worldbuilding in Houdini, worlds and VFX in Unreal Engine 5, motion capture and audience interaction.
Path
- 2018 — PresentEthan Nava (freelance)Creative Director & Creative Technologist
- 2025 — 2026WeMakeArt Director · 3D Lead · Unreal Engine Artist · external collaborator
- 2022 — 2024R3ALID@DTechnical Artist
- 2021CocolabMotion Graphics Artist · Unreal Engine Artist · freelance, per project
- 2018 — 2023Centro de Diseño, Cine y TelevisiónStudies
Clients
Brands
- Nike
- Netflix
- HBO
- Porsche
- Meta
- Amazon Music
- Heineken
- AXE
- Coca-Cola
- Takis
- FUD
- Mary Kay
- Sesderma
- Liverpool
- El Palacio de Hierro
- Viva Aerobús
- TAF
- 1DOC3
Institutions, festivals and media
- Pumas UNAM
- AICM
- Volando Contigo
- Lighthouse Immersive
- FMF
- OCESA
- Gobierno de la Ciudad de México
- Festival Ceremonia
- Flow Fest
- EDC México
- Vaivén Festival
- OFFF MX
- PDA
- CENTRO × Meta × Alejandro Magallanes
Artists
- Kenia OS
- Enrique Bunbury
- Gera MX
- María Becerra
- Camilo VII
- The Warning
- The Wookies
- LEX MX
- Santa Fe Klan
Stack
Direction
- Art direction
- Creative concept
- Experience design
- Pitching
- Leading 3D teams
Formats
- Phygital and interactive experiences
- FOOH / DOOH
- Live show visuals
- Brand games
- Immersive rooms
Tech edge
- Houdini FX
- Unreal Engine
- Adobe After Effects
- DaVinci Resolve
- TouchDesigner
- ComfyUI
- Seedance 2.5 prompting
- Midjourney prompting
- Motion capture (Shogun / Vicon, OptiTrack, Rokoko, Move AI)
- C++
- JavaScript
- HTML & CSS
- Vibe coding
- Rhinoceros 3D
- Figma
- Blender
- MediaPipe
- Meta Quest
Got a pitch, a show or an activation coming up?
- Phone
- +52 55 3060 2263
- @ethan_nava (opens in a new tab)