Sheng’s Tech Art Portfolio
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Sheng Xu

Hello! I'm Sheng, a Technical Artist with 10+ years of experience across a wide range of projects. I am highly skilled in all areas of the 3D and Game Development pipeline, but the true value lies in my ability to bridge art and technology.

I am a force multiplier — I empower creative teams to achieve more than they could have imagined, and enable them to do more, in less time!

Please check out my work!

Selected Works

Loopdeloop Loopdeloop
Realtime Animations
Loopdeloop

Perfectly looping animations made in Maya/Unity, utilising a huge range of tech and art skills.

See the breakdown of some techniques I used.

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Clockwork Spider Clockwork Spider
Procedural Animation
Clockwork Spider

Procedurally animated clockwork spider

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Flipbook Animation System Flipbook Animation System
Maya and Unity Toolset
Flipbook Animation System

2D Flipbook-style Animations on 3D Characters

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Character Customisation Systems Character Customisation Systems
Maya and Unity Toolset
Character Customisation Systems

Systems for on-the-fly outfit/character swapping. Full character customisation

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Adjustable Characters Adjustable Characters
COMING SOON
Runtime Animation Rigging
Adjustable Characters

Realtime adjustable characters

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Shaders Shaders
COMING SOON
HLSL / Shader Graph
Shaders

Collection of various shader

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Barrett M107 Barrett M107
COMING SOON
Fully rigged 3D Asset
Barrett M107

Fully rigged and disassemblable rifle

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Rig Collection Rig Collection
COMING SOON
Maya Rigging
Rig Collection

Collection of interesting rigs

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Juice & Effects Juice & Effects
COMING SOON
Satisfying effects
Juice & Effects

Collection of effects and satisfying things!

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Paper Plague Paper Plague
COMING SOON
Game
Paper Plague

game

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Proficiencies

Maya

  • Tools/Pipeline Dev/Scripting (Python, MEL)
    • Rigging Tools
    • Pipeline management and integration with external programs.
    • Bespoke solutions
    • Ad-hoc scripting
    • Workflow streamlining
  • Rigging
  • 3D Modelling
  • 3D Animation
  • Dynamics
  • nCloth
  • Lighting/Shading/Rendering (V-Ray, Arnold, Renderman)

Workflow

  • Confluence, Jira, Trello
  • Agile methodology

Source Control

  • git, svn, tfs

Technical

  • Building computers.
  • Computer hardware troubleshooting.
  • Quick learner of new software/technologies.

Unity

  • Asset management and integration
  • Tools development (Editor/Runtime)
  • VFX, Particles, Shaders (HLSL, Shadergraph, Compute)
  • Prototyping, Gameplay Programming

Systems Planning

  • Procedural Generation
  • Animation Systems
    • Mecanim
    • Runtime animation rigging
    • Procedural animation
  • Cutscenes, Custom Timeline behaviours
  • UI implementation

Unreal Engine

  • Asset integration
  • Effects
  • Basic working knowledge of Blueprints

Adobe Suite

  • Photoshop
    • Javascript for scripts and automation
  • After Effects
    • Compositing
    • Motion Graphics
  • Illustrator
  • InDesign
  • Lightroom
  • Premiere Pro
  • Animate