Experienced in creating a wide range of visual effects for cinematics, real-time games, and interactive 3D projects, covering both high-fidelity simulations and optimized real-time implementations.

• Creation of complex, multi-layered large-scale effects, including water simulations, destruction systems, soft-body deformation, environmental simulations, and other physics-driven phenomena.

• Development of VDB-based volumetric simulations for cinematic or hybrid pipelines.

• Production of flipbooks and custom projection meshes for efficient integration of complex simulations into real-time environments.

• Creation of high-quality simulation caches and Alembic assets for integration into game engines, including simulations containing mesh deformations beyond standard transform animation (organic explosions, tearing materials, cloth destruction, etc.).

• Development of optimized real-time VFX using particle systems in Unreal Engine (Niagara) and Unity (Shuriken) across multiple visual styles including realistic, stylized, fantasy, and sci-fi.

• Creation of gameplay-driven effects such as:

  • character abilities and spells

  • portals and teleportation effects

  • death and enemy destruction effects

  • environmental effects (dust, fog, volumetric light shafts, torches, smoke, atmospheric particles)

  • magical and energy shields, force fields, and barrier effects

• Creation of environmental interaction effects, including lightweight destruction and reactive environment systems (breakable objects, environment responding to player actions).

• Development of shader-driven visual effects, including energy fields, force barriers, stylized liquids, and procedural materials.

Experienced in bridging artistic visuals with technical implementation, focusing on real-time rendering, shader development, asset optimization, and gameplay-driven visual systems.

• Development of custom shaders for characters, environments, terrain, decals, and VFX using Shader Graph, node-based systems, and HLSL.

• Creation of both physically based (PBR) and stylized rendering solutions, including toon/cel shading pipelines.

• Shader optimization and restructuring of texture channel packing workflows for efficient material performance.

• Integration and configuration of post-processing pipelines, including both stock and custom post-process solutions.

• Development of visibility solutions for player characters, including object fading, alpha-based transparency systems, and masking techniques.

• Implementation and management of render layers and lighting layers.

• Development of interactive environmental systems, including dynamic water and vegetation reacting to character movement.

• Creation of dynamic outline shaders and object highlighting systems for gameplay interaction.

• Mesh validation and troubleshooting, including detection and correction of visual artifacts and geometry issues.

• Optimization of 3D assets and textures to meet performance targets.

• Lighting setup, troubleshooting, and light baking workflows.

• Creation and assembly of gameplay environments and levels based on technical specifications or visual references.

• Development of character controllers and gameplay mechanics within Unreal Engine.

• UI implementation and development of interactive UI logic integrated with game architecture.

• Design and implementation of gameplay system structures and interaction logic.

Experienced in creating and optimizing game-ready 3D assets, as well as building procedural workflows for scalable content production.

• Creation of hard-surface 3D assets using Blender and Cinema4D.

• Development of procedural asset generation pipelines in Houdini, enabling scalable generation of objects and environment elements.

• Experience producing models across various polygon budgets, including LOD creation and automated retopology workflows.

• Geometry optimization, mesh repair, and correction of topological issues such as N-gons and shading artifacts.

• Experience with both automatic and manual UV unwrapping workflows.

• Creation of procedural texture blending systems and shader-based texture processing, followed by baking within 3D software.

• Creation of texture sets using Substance Painter.

• Development of complex and animated shaders within both DCC applications and real-time engines.

• Basic rigging for mechanical and organic models, including manual animation creation for rigs.

• Experience working with photogrammetry pipelines, including:

  • editing and optimization of point cloud data

  • conversion of point clouds for use in 3D environments

  • development of custom pipelines for converting high-density scans into optimized polygonal models while preserving maximum detail.