OVERVIEW

Here's a snapshot of things that I've done in the recent and not-so-recent past, with a good smattering of what I also enjoy doing in my free time.
My dayjob has largely been Tech Art work (in Lead/Principal capacity on Zynga Poker and Harry Potter Puzzles and Spells) for mobile.
A lot of UI-centric labor with some animation and VFX thrown in from time to time.
Done a lot of generalist 2D/3D/Animation (Lead animator on Warhammer Online, various on Dark Age of Camelot, Sim City 2013, Superman: The Man of Steel)
Environment art / level design Looney Tunes Racing, SF RUSH 2049.
Current project: noodling on the fortnite level below. Really enjoying learning more about Unreal (even if it's mostly UEFN, but hooks into blueprint and Niagara)
Ideal next skillups: more in-engine Unreal character/creature/boss techAnim. Leveling up on Spine 2D would be good too. Obviously more Niagara.
Would love to really dive into the Substance pipeline, but would need the motivation to do that in my spare time, instead of fleshing out my own worlds :)

THREE ENGINES IN APRIL
In April 2025, I decided to begin work on a project to balance where-I'm-at with what-I-want-to-do. Tech Art is a really broad (and sometimes vague) arena, and I'm in the Not-A-Computer-Scientist bucket. But I problem solve well, and work with others to find efficiencies and pipeline solutions that reduce redundancy and human error. I enjoy prototyping, and so I wrote up a pitch for myself something like the following: Create a few new assets (as iPad centric as possible [nomad/procreate]) and integrate them into a similar experience in as many engines as possible. MVP: figure out the pipeline in, blocking out a level, porting it to others. Also, including UI, VFX, and Animation if possible. Assets: Stable/barn from WOOL comic * Log from Forest Sprites sketch * Turtle pawn (digital) from my IRL chess set. (more detail in the BTS deck below) Engines: Meta Horizon Worlds * Roblox * Fortnite (Unreal) Standalone webGL Unity was an option, as was Unreal, but I cut those for time

Milestone livestream recap
Making-Of deck ^

Some Harry Potter: Puzzles and Spells clips
Forgive me talking over them, I captured these on Twitch during a livestream.

honeydukes unity oneshot anim of sprites. Unity manual keys.	Gringott's integration, art optimization, prototyping sequences cross-discipline. Intro, hand-keyed plinths, etc. Collaborated with Eng on avatar tween behavior, etc.	Gringott's advance and plinth fall anims. didn't create final vfx.

	Fortnitemares 2022, Creative 1.0

Drawings

Fortsona Loading Screen Casey Jones Pinup
for Sewer Boyz1 Manslide Tryptich
for The Creatives TCG Series 2 Muppet Barbarian Kaiju Vacation

Imperator

Unpublished project from Mythic Entertainment. Bot on right, original KILLBOT concept by CJ Grebb, these are my breakdown drawings and model/texture/animation.

2D animation, mostly for Twitch
Some emotes, chat sticker, etc.
Many are available on giphy/tenor and useable in tiktok and IG stories, etc.

4 ^^Stinger transition for Twitch overlay when switching between scenes ^^ 4

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Stream Avatars

Various Emotes and/or Stream Avatars, An OBS overlay plugin that allows Chat to pick avatars for themselves. These run around on screen and can perform various actions.
(see embedded video below)
One technical challenge making these, was the intent that they all be tintable. Hence them sharing the same initial red/yellow/grey palette. You can see how they tint in the video as well.
These were all created in Procreate with some tweaks in AEsprite/ProMotion/Affinity Photo for tightening up pixels and laying out sprite sheets.

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here's some soundcloud stuff I made as ambient streaming background noise to listen to while you look at this page.

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	Drawings

Fortsona Loading Screen	Casey Jones Pinup for Sewer Boyz1	Manslide Tryptich for The Creatives TCG Series 2	Muppet Barbarian	Kaiju Vacation

	Imperator
		Unpublished project from Mythic Entertainment. Bot on right, original KILLBOT concept by CJ Grebb, these are my breakdown drawings and model/texture/animation.

	2D animation, mostly for Twitch Some emotes, chat sticker, etc. Many are available on giphy/tenor and useable in tiktok and IG stories, etc.

4	^^Stinger transition for Twitch overlay when switching between scenes ^^	4
			3

Stream Avatars
	Various Emotes and/or Stream Avatars, An OBS overlay plugin that allows Chat to pick avatars for themselves. These run around on screen and can perform various actions. (see embedded video below) One technical challenge making these, was the intent that they all be tintable. Hence them sharing the same initial red/yellow/grey palette. You can see how they tint in the video as well. These were all created in Procreate with some tweaks in AEsprite/ProMotion/Affinity Photo for tightening up pixels and laying out sprite sheets.

		click to enlarge