TECH ART!
What am I doing now?
Currently, I am working on a tool to automate the IK-retargeting system within Unreal!
Tools
PlayStation Face Texture Synthesis
As a part of my internship at PlayStation, I created two tools for their global studio pipeline. While I cannot show the tool and its results, I can share that it utilized machine learning and generative AI to create 3D face textures from the PlayStation database of scans. In real-time, a character artist could use sliders to change attributes of the face and it would generate a new texture that the user could save and apply within Maya or download to the computer. This tool can be used in the character prototyping process in parallel with another in-house tool to create the face meshes and speed up the process by around 60%!
Blender Tools
I have created a multitude of blender tools to speed up my personal modeling workflows. One example is a tool to automate baking and exporting textures from a model, similar to the process used in Substance Painter. Instead of clicking the export settings for every texture: diffuse, roughness, etc. every time and waiting for the previous bake to finish to start the new one, you can create a list to automate the export!
Unreal Engine Tools
I have worked on tools to automate processes in UE5, through the Editor Utility Widgets or code and Slate! I am currently working on an auto IK-retargeting tool, as that was one of my main pain points during the Atomic Arcade project.
Shaders
A Unity shader graph created for movement using position manipulation. The factors are completely customizable and image materials map within the shader as well.
Another shader was created to provide emissive moving light to the scene at the top to simulate the reflection of the sun on top of waves. This shader was then applied to planes and their positions, rising and falling at moving points, allowing the camera to perceive it as moving light.
