Ali Mayyasi - 3D Portfolio

Shader Art Reel:

Responsibilities:
- developed, maintained all gameplay shaders and postprocesses on Section 8 and Section 8:Prejudice
- worked with Programming and Design to determine functionality
- worked closely with Art on environment shaders; defined texture requirements
- optimized, consolidated and extended Art-developed environment shaders: lerps, perlin noise, UV distortion...
- utilized Unreal Engine's Material editor, HLSL and Photoshop
- optimized for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 using PIX and GPAD

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Shader Tech Reel - UV Math Studies:

Video showcasing my study on UV-math based materials.

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Shader Tech Reel - UV, Gradient & Time Manipulation:

Video showcasing UV, vertex, gradient and time manipulation in Unreal 3.

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Responsibilities:
- prototyped and scripted most of the VFX systems on Section 8 and Section 8:Prejudice
- collaborated closely with the gameplay programmers and the VFX artist (Mark Flieg Jr) on requirements (shader, texture, script and socket requirements)
- created VFX assets using 3Ds Max, Photoshop and Unreal Engine
- optimized for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 using PIX and GPAD

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Photoshop Script - Sequence to SubUV Generator:
This script takes a folder with an ordered sequence of images and assembles them into a single image (subUV sheet, or atlas) based on the specified number of columns. If the number of columns is left empty, the sequence will be assembled into a perfect square.
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Tech Reel:

Optimization and Memory Responsibilities:
- refined the level pipeline with the directors
- established the frametime and memory Art budgets for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
- developed performance tracking tools with Programming
- implemented optimizations with the different content developers

Scripting Responsibilities:
- hooked up much of the gameplay shader and particle VFX (UnrealScript)
- implemented miscellaneous clean-up scripts for the animators (MaxScript)
- created a Photoshop "atlas generator" for the UI and VFX teams (PhotoshopScript)

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This was my VFS student project: a generalist reel exploring the entire cinematic pipeline, with special emphasis on rigging.

Responsibilities:
- modeling, rigging, unwrapping, materials, texturing, animation, lighting, render passes, compositing
- used Softimage, Zbrush, AfterEffects, Premiere, Photoshop

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