RESUME

Shirley Xin Zhou

I am a Technical Artist with over a decade of game industry experience. For the past several years, I have been working exclusively in Unity.

Develop and implement a production pipeline for 3D assets. This includes guidelines for the creation of the 3D assets, set up export rules and implementation of the assets in game.
Work directly with art directors, programmers and artists to mitigate production issues such as avoiding performance heavy setup and implementation design that keep to visual requirements and still perform well on low-end devices.
Prototyping features and designs with programmers to come up with stable and maintainable setup.
Make editor tools in Unity3D that helped with converting assets into prefabs, laying out and replacing game objects.
Create UI layout and convert the layout into usable assets.
Create 3D character/ prop mode and uv map in Maya. Create textures in Photoshop.

San Francisco, CA — Jul. 2020 – Aug

Create shader using Unity shader graph for character customization.
Work with an animator to set up an animation pipeline across multiple rigs.
Design and create a guideline on tileable ground for artists.
Work with the development team to convert unity terrain mesh into a setup that has good performance on low-end devices and still matches the artistic design.
Developing and implementing 3D assets pipeline to speed up development time.
Work with art directors and programmers to make sure the game matches the vision art direction has created.
Test and create proof of concept for possible tech to be used in unity. And prototype features for production.
Provide technical help for artists.
Documenting tools, procedures and guidelines for in-house and outsource use.

Games:
Unreleased.

San Francisco, CA — Dec. 2019 – Jun.2020

Work with project producers to create visual guides for future development on mixed reality.
Research and edit videos for visual reference.
Create assets in maya, set up visual storyboards in unity and create presentations as needed.
Present and document future UI/UX possibility.

Project:
Part of Mixed Reality Capture Studios for Volumetric Video in Microsoft.

Burlingame, CA — Jun. 2016 – Nov. 2019

Work with art directors and programmers to make sure the game match the vision art direction has created.
Create tools for importing assets and create prefabs in unity using C#.
Test and create proof of concept for possible tech to be used in unity.
Prototype features that programmer can use to test programming solution.
Implementing and help developing a suitable pipeline to speed up development time.

Games:

MyVegas Slots;

Brisbane, CA — 2015- 2016

Games:

Santa Ana, CA — 2012-2014

Created UI layout and converted the layout into usable assets in Unity.
Created 3D models for the environment and interface.
Created particle and other effects in Unity.
Created an Art Tool window in Unity that helped with laying out and replacing game objects.
Wrote C# VFX scripts in Unity that is being used in Casino League.
Created UI layout and converted the layout into usable assets.
Created 2D assets.

Games:

Boo Seeker [Mobile] (unpublished);