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Resume
| Kat Yu Resume |
Skills
Proficient:
Autodesk Maya Unity
Pixologic ZBrush Perforce
3D Coat Adobe Photoshop
Experienced:
Blender Github
Substance Painter Unreal Engine
Experience
Facebook – Sept 2017 – Current
3D Artist – AR/VR
- Created content for VR first experiences for both desktop and standalone VR headsets, balancing the performance, visual quality, and overall experience needs of each platform
- Lead an art team to ship Oculus Venues 2.0 Early Access Beta, from prototype to product launch. Also lead the art efforts to ship Facebook Connect in Venues
- Helped launch Avatars 2.0 for Facebook Spaces. Was responsible for avatar asset creation, including hair meshes, UVs, and texture explorations
- Used Unity to create projects from the ground-up, iterating on ideas and concepts throughout the design cycle, and optimizing performance for the target platform
- Cross-collaborated with designers and engineers to ensure that art creation harmonized with core functionalities and design features of any given project. Collaborated with art director and concept artists to ensure style, vision, and feel were maintained throughout all phases of the project
- Lead multiple team efforts, alongside art producer, to define art phases, and plan out and assign tasks towards milestone goals
- Provided feedback for artists in order to achieve visual quality and consistency, and to streamline artist tools and optimize artist efficiency
- Created and maintained artist/non-engineer onboarding documentation that covered setup procedures within the specific infrastructure of the product, and led to improved team productivity
AltspaceVR – Aug 2015 – July 2017
3D Artist
- Created all talent/celebrity custom avatars while maintaining the art style of each avatar series, as well as satisfying the requests from partners
- Ensured that the latest avatar customization system was designed to support artist’s needs, keeping hobbyists, professionals, and partners in mind
- Created the “Geo Campfire” environment: a highly active and heavily populated persistent space, and the first experimentation with a non-realistic art style
- Frequented cross-department collaborations with Marketing, Engineering, Design, and Business Development for items such as promo creation, SDK support, systems creation, and partnerships
- Communicated directly with various partners on single IPs for large scale events
- Created a wide range of props and integrated them into “native resource” system, which supported partner events, as well as SDK growth
- Undertook Unity performance optimizations between PC and Mobile. Familiar with limits of draw calls, vertex count, material management, culling. Made necessary changes to all art-related assets
- Collaborated with concept artists and engineers to create and test avatars of varying aesthetics that were suitable for the VR space
- Optimized existing avatars for better performance
Sketchy Panda Games - Jul 2015 – Sept 2015
Contract 3D Character Artist
- Responsible for the creation of all character models and textures, as well as bringing into Unity
- Communicated and collaborated closely with art director and concept artist to tailor aesthetic
The Foundry - Feb 2015 – May 2015
3D Artist Intern
- Created game art assets using The Foundry software, including Modo and Mari
- Modeled high-res game assets for company project: Sci-fi Doom mod
- Provided assets for software testing and quality assurance
Education
Academy of Art University
2012 – 2015
- MFA, Emphasis in 3D Character Art
2007 – 2010
- BFA, Emphasis in 3D Arts
Volunteer
Game Developers Conference
2014, 2015
- Conference Associate
2014
- Session Hall Helper