Unreal Engine Technical Artist

Materials and Technical Artist passionate about optimization and streamlining processes.

Experience

Character, Texture, and Technical Artist June 2024 - June 2025

Elysian Inferno

●Create 3D models, textures, rigs, UVs, and animation for characters using Maya, Blender, ZBrush, and Substance Painter

●Develop Niagara Particle Systems and materials for VFX in Unreal Engine 5.5

●Developing rigging and animation systems for both bipedal and quadruped characters

●Optimize art assets for performance and memory usage

●Work with the programmer to fix bugs and implement art assets into Unreal Engine 5.5 using GitHub and Perforce

●Collaborate with game designers, programmers, and other artists to ensure technical and aesthetic goals are met

●Participate in game design and development meetings

Character Rigger December 2024 - January 2025

Have A Nice Day! - Indie Animated Film

●Rigged character bodies in Maya 2022

Lead Technical Artist and Character Artist January 2024 - January 2025

Global Game Jam – Dysinfection 2025; Critter Cuisine 2024

●Created a game in 48 hours with a group of people.

●Rigged and textured props and characters.

●Implemented assets and real-time shaders. (Unreal Engine 5, 2025) (Unity 2024)

Marketing Lead and App Designer January 2023 - March 2023

Design For Good - SCAD SERVE GOOD 560

●Engaged in a multidisciplinary project that used tools such as Figma and Augmented Reality to bring the past to the future

Education

Savannah College Of Art And Design March 2022 - June 2025

BFA, Interactive Design and Game Development; GPA: 4.0 Dean’s List 2021- June 2025

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University September 2020 - November 2021

Computer Science Major, transferred to SCAD; GPA: 3.47

Skills

●Adobe Photoshop certified

●Adobe Illustrator

●Adobe Premiere Pro

●Autodesk Maya

●Arnold Renderer

●ZBrush

●Marmoset Toolbag 4

●Substance Painter

●Substance Designer

●Unreal Engine 5

●Blender

●Autodesk 3ds Max

●Unity

●GitHub

●Perforce

●Linux Shell Script (Bash)

●Java

●JavaScript

●Python

●C++

●C

●MATLAB

●CSS

●HTML

●Communication

●Teamwork

●Problem-solving

●Adaptability

●Time management

●Leadership

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