Plate 01: Left Turn Studios · 2021
Alien Age
Sole TA on a shipped Steam title. Custom water, fog, and color-variation shaders; full asset pipeline including retopology and indexed texture atlases; procedural foliage placement tool.
Index of plates · 07 projects
Portfolio
Game projects across AAA and indie development: shaders, VFX, animation pipelines, asset optimization, and tooling.
Plate 02: Left Turn Studios · 2021–2023
Snuggles the Unicorn
Lead TA on a Unity action title. Vertex shader system replacing 32-bone enemy rigs; constraint-based animation retargeting system for a redesigned player model.
Plate 03: Left Turn Studios · 2021–2023
Grapple Star
Unity space action demo. Solved a depth-of-field transparency issue with a dual-camera Cinemachine composite that keeps foreground VFX sharp without disabling post-processing.
Lego Fortnite · images pending
Plate 04: Epic Games · 2023–2026
Lego Fortnite
Embedded tech art QA across FX, animation, content optimization, and procedural content on UE5. Built FX validation framework and an automation triage tool with Claude Code.
Plate 05: Bungie · 2017–2018
Destiny 2: Ambient Life
3D generalist work embedded in QA: modeled, rigged, and animated the owls in the Farm social space and the sea monster on Titan. Shipped in Destiny 2.
Plate 06: Synaptic Sugar / DigiPen · 2014–2015
Relic
DigiPen capstone in Zero Engine. Owned all visual technical work and pushed the engine past its documented limits. First Place at 2015 DigiPen Student Showcase; exhibited at PAX West.
Plate 07: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Earlier Work
2013–2014
Jerry's Rig, a solo animation production covering story, character, environment, rigging, and rendering, plus prop modeling samples.