• Built a fully automated character render pipeline.

A headless Blender process driven by Python ingests raw art deliveries (meshes, rigs, animations, textures) validates naming, assembles a pre-lit scene, resolves materials, skeletons and animation data, and outputs every animation frame by frame, engine-ready for Unity.

Artists drop files into a folder and double-click. No engineer is involved at any point in the loop. Covers 4 characters and ~100 unique animations. A half-day manual pass became a sub-60-second automated one. In continuous production use for 7 months, serving an asset cycle with a ~3 year lifespan.

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• Built an animation validation tool for animators (Unity, C#). Animators drop clips into a folder, open a scene, and a single click applies the animation to a test rig. Scale and transform errors that were invisible in the DCC and previously only surfaced after a developer round-trip are now caught by the animator in seconds. Deliberately built to fit the animation team's existing workflow rather than force a change to it.

 

• Built a runtime gaze system. Eye and pupil control decoupled from baked animation, so characters react live to

on-screen events while playing authored performance animation.

 

• Optimisation across six hardware targets: PS4, PS5, Switch, Switch 2, Xbox Series X/S.

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• Draw call reduction through LOD strategies and batching, holding visual targets across a wide performance spread.

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• R&D on real-time rendering techniques (glow, bloom, VFX) to meet a fixed art direction within fixed frame budgets.