College Work

Below are all the projects I worked on in my college and grad school years, from most recent to least.

Master’s Thesis: Narrative and Environmentally Based Character Expression System For Gameplay-Centric Video Games

Masters Thesis regarding the implementation of more robust character expression for player immersion in video games. Made in Unity

Created the character and statue models and surfaces, as well as animations
Created custom shaders for color customization and stylized skin tone
Created a code driven animation system for swapping banks of character animation and setting strength of reactions
Character Rig and Voice provided by Kira Foglesong

Unity physics-based hand interaction simulation for oculus and leap motion hand tracking

Self-study project where I designed a motion simulator game independently, including all modeling, programing, rendering, VFX, and gameplay

Group production project made in Unity, utilizing physically based game play. Responsibilities Include:

Creating Level scrolling system
Creating entirety of boss and boss fight from concept to code, including: modeling, surfacing, rigging, animating, and state machine programming
Providing programming support for team less familiar with Unity
Creating various particle effects
Directing voice work
Creating the SFX and Music

iOS Augmented Reality proof of concept application that allows users to capture and save pants and shirt designs onto virtual proxies. Made in Unity

Created the entire app from the ground up
Created the UI system, Clothing models, and Capture to Texture process
Utilized json compression to save “closets” on an online database that allowed each user their own unique ID and storage

A motion simulator game made in Unity for SIGGRAPH 2016. Responsibilities included: