3D MODELING
About Me
Hi, I’m Marissa Nina Goldberg — a visual storyteller, 3D artist, and educator.
For over 30 years, I’ve taught photography and Photoshop, helping students see light, composition, and emotion in new ways. My creative path has always been about transformation — turning ideas into images, and imagination into something real.
In recent years, that passion evolved into a new medium: 3D modeling and digital illustration. What began as a self-driven study in Blender became a deep creative journey — merging my love for storytelling, art, and teaching.
Through this process, I created The Heart Mender, an illustrated story about healing, courage, and rediscovery. It follows Nina, a young woman on a magical journey to reclaim the lost shards of her heart — guided by an old inventor and his wondrous machine.
What started as a personal project to practice 3D turned into something far greater — a world of emotion, symbolism, and hope.
Today, I’m combining everything I’ve learned — from decades behind the camera to the countless hours spent modeling, lighting, and rendering — to bring The Heart Mender to life through 3D visual storytelling and educational content.
My mission is to inspire others to learn, heal, and create — proving that anyone can turn imagination into something real, one shard at a time.
The Heart Mender
An Illustrated Story by Marissa
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Once again, her attention drifted, and another fragment of her heart crumbled away. She braced herself. She knew what was coming, she'd endured it countless times. That familiar ache always followed when she let someone or a situation wound her. Another piece of herself, lost.
The sharp pain sliced through her chest. She looked down, a wave of shock washing over her. So little of her heart remained.
Panic seized her. But mingled with the terror was something unexpected.
Exhilaration.
What is this feeling? she wondered. How could fear and excitement feel so alike?
Narrator:
“Each time we hand others the power to wound us, another piece of who we are slips away… until there’s almost nothing left.”