Hi, I’m Dante Rinaldi.

Inferno Creative Studio isn’t a company — it’s one person, and you’re looking at him.

Dante Rinaldi, visual effects artist and Ringling College professor, on a green screen stage

There’s no sales team here, no account manager, no junior artist quietly doing the work while someone else takes the meeting. When you email Inferno Creative Studio, it lands in my inbox — and the person who answers is the same person who supervises the shots, builds the models, pulls the keys, and delivers the final frames.

By day I’m a professor of Design, Animation and Visual Effects at Ringling College of Art & Design, where I’ve taught Motion Design and Visual Effects since 2012 — writing my own curriculum and sending a decade of artists out into the industry. The rest of the time I’m doing the work I teach: VFX supervision, 3D modeling and texturing, compositing, simulation, and the custom pipeline tools that hold a production together.

That’s the trade-off, and it’s worth being upfront about: I’m not a facility that can throw forty artists at a show. What you get instead is one experienced set of hands, direct access to them, and no signal lost between the person you hired and the person doing the work.

Ringling College of Art & Design — Design/Animation Professor, 2012–present. Motion Design and Visual Effects.
Inferno Creative Studio — Owner and VFX Supervisor, 2013–present. Film, television, and commercial work from pre-production through final delivery.
Digital Domain Media Group — Digital Artist / Technical Director, 2010–2012. Hard-surface and organic modeling, texture painting, Nuke compositing, effects.
Buffalo State University — B.S., Graphic Design and Illustration.
Based in Bradenton, Florida — working with clients anywhere.