Telemetry Plugin - netflix's senna (2024)
This plugin was developed per the series' Technical Director's request. He wanted to integrate motion base actuators with Unreal Engine (UE) environments animated and displayed on an LED volume. Inspired by motion capture protocols, I decided to use UDP connections to quickly relay telemetry data from an UE Actor (either attached to an Ndisplay or in a separate UE instance) to the PRS Racing simulators used in the motion base. By communicating with PRS Racing's developers I created a blueprint that captures a specified Unreal Engine actor's coordinates, converts them to the appropriate units for the actuators, and transmits them to specified IP addresses, allowing for the control of multiple motion bases and smoothly integrating with the PRS systems.
Art and Presence -
Art installation (2018)
'Art and Presence' is an installation built with CRT monitors, cement blocks, a camera and a computer. Using C++ and OpenCV, I wrote a program to detect movement in a video feed, then mapping said movement to a grid running Conway's game of Life's rules with slight modifications to accommodate the interfacing camera. Developed and displayed as part of the Art and Design foundation course I took prior to my undergraduate studies, this installation was idealized from my desire to literally portray one of the main principles discussed in John Dewey's Art as Experience (1934) book -- that art is reliant and signified by the people experiencing it. The circumstances and context of those who perceive works of art, inherently influence its meaning, therefore artists should be attentive to the manner in which their works are displayed, if they have a choice, and pieces created without the purpose of being artwork, may have artistic value attributed to them if presented in a transformative context.
Shark trap -
standalone ue4 asset (2021)
This asset was developed as a demo of the skills I learned pertaining to asset development for game engines. This zombie-shark creature was conceptualized by me, then sculpted in ZBrush, then retopologized, rigged and animated in Maya. I projected highpoly details to the lowpoly mesh using ZBrush and Substance painter, which I then used to texture the asset. All of this was done with great care of polycounts, mesh optimization and the standards for game engine asset development. The asset was then programmed by me to be seamless to implement to standard game pipelines, reacting to player pawns and reasonably-sized tagged assets to execute easily modifiable "damage" or "destroy" effects.
Bottled Up -
Game demo (2022)
Developed by me and two other colleagues during my undergraduate studies, this game demo not only allowed me to test my tech art and blueprint programming skills, but also my art skills. In this project I did concept art, modelling, texturing, shader creation, level lighting, NPC AI development, level design and programming. This was the final project of our Undergraduate course and allowed me to explore everything I learned regarding game development. I also had the pleasure of working with extremely talented colleagues -- as producer I was entrusted with the task of managing workloads and schedules, making sure everyone played to their strengths and accommodating to my colleague's needs. As per the course's requirement, this project was supposed to only be a fly-through demo of assets, but I am proud that me and the team managed to go beyond and make it a fully-playable demo.
KATA-ROBO -
GAME DEMO (2021)
Developed as a part of my Undergraduate studies, me and three other colleagues developed a game from scratch, creating documentation, assets, sounds, UI and scripting it all together. In this project I was responsible for programming mechanics, set-dressing, modelling/texturing assets and lookdev/post-process material development. As my first game project, I learned a lot about the importance of establishing solid production pipelines and the importance of strong and open communication between developers, aside from the software skills I acquired from this challenge.
