Laurie Annis is a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University's The GAME School (Games, Arts, Media, and Engineering), where she teaches courses in extended reality (XR) design.
Annis is a senior 3D/XR generalist with extensive experience across the full production pipeline for games and interactive media. She is the author of Blender 3D for Jobseekers, a beginner's guide to professional 3D content creation, and the founder of Unreality3D.com, a creator-first 3D web publishing platform, and Interconnect3D.com, a platform helping 3D creators share and discover premade assets and tools. Her shipped XR work includes Hypatia, a free-to-play VR experience on Steam, Stoven Universe and Magical Capsule Critters, VR/Mobile/Web playable spaces on Spatial.io, and Ancestories3D, a free-to-play browser experience on Itch.io.
Prior to coming to ASU, Annis led and contributed to 3D, XR, and game production teams across multiple studios and projects, including serving as Technical Lead, Producer, and Project Manager on CanastaMatch Play, Senior Project Manager and XR Generalist at MedMicroMaps, Creative Director and Cofounder at AncestoriesXR, and Lead 3D Artist roles at Stax3D, TimefireVR, and RoomsAlive. She has trained over 30 artists on 2D, 3D, and XR production workflows and presented at industry events including IGDA and GeekGirlCon.