KRYSTAL LEE

Kabam Inc.

June 2018 - June 2023

 

VFX Artist: Disney Mirrorverse

October 2018 - June 2023

Currently working on an Disney Mirrorverse project as of Oct 2018 as the art lead of the VFX department. I laid down the early workflow pipeline for VFX of this project and now I just do internal art direction on top of creating effects. Wrote the visual fx bible for this project.

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Engine: Unity + proprietary tools and rendering systems

Programs: Photoshop, Maya, Visual Studio, Clip Studio

Duties: Creating effects that are worthy of the Disney Standard., reviewing peer works and giving feedback before passing them on to art direction, testing new tools for optimized workflow, working with TA to create shaders and new tech to fit our gameplay standards.

Main Assets Produced: Characters, the gacha system flow and aesthetics, large library of textures (animated and static) and materials

Skills Learned: How to communicate with engineering to build the tools needed to achieve specific aesthetics. How to give proper feedback to team to tailor their work to match client requests.

Characters created: Belle, Merida, Mickey, Scar, Mulan, Judy Hopps, Ursula, Aladdin, Tiana, Hiro

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VFX Artist: Marvel Contest of Champions

June 2018 - October 2018

Worked on Marvel's Contest of Champions and shipped a few character effects sets. Particle Effects are created with proprietary tools in Unity. Characters created: Venom the Duck, Aegon, Diablo

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Archiact Interactive

April 2017 - June 2018

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VFX Artist:

Working on an unannounced AR title for a big client. The project is made in Unity and the effects were developed using both Shuriken System and PopcornFX. I developed the pipeline for usage of PopcornFX as well as the pipeline for modular particle systems in shuriken. My partner and I worked very closely with the AD and Engineering teams to make sure that the effects were cleanly implemented and well optimized for the mobile game.

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Engine: Unity

Programs: Popcornfx, Photoshop, Maya, Amplify Shader, Shaderforge, xgen tools

Duties: pipeline development, creation of particle systems in shuriken and popcornfx, texture creation, shader creation, 2D Sprite sheets and meshes for particle use, fluid/destruction simulations

Skills learned: Usage/optimization of alembic data, Popcornfx development

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Production Artist:

Worked under a lead artist to push art through the pipeline. I worked on a team that was designed to port existing PC VR games into PSVR, so a lot of assets were to be optimized to fit into VR space. During this time, I assisted in porting 3 VR titles and 2 AR titles. I gained a lot of experience in a variety of things dealing with VR/AR and optimization for VR/AR.

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Engine: Unity

Programs: Maya, Photoshop, Shaderforge, zbrush, Substance Painter

Duties: Optimizing meshes and lights, Creating original content (3D assets, effects, and animations) and concept art, optimizing effects, storyboarding and creating full illustrations for marketing purposes.

Skills learned: how to properly develop visuals for VR and AR space, limitations of AR space and developing shaders to mitigate those issues, how to use Unity like a pro

Titles: Blasters of the Universe, SmashboxVR, Pierhead Arcade, Waddle Home AR, Darknet AR.

Other: Animated stickers for Waddle Home AR

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Freelancing

​2012 - present

 

Designed graphics for multiple clients for tshirts production and sales.

Did a ton of private commission work for clients.

Helped develop and create the lookdev of FX for a (now scrapped) game.

Did some private commissions of short comics.

Personally booth at conventions with my own original merchandise.

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UBC Esports Association

​2013 - 2015

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Created merchandise and designs for sale at events and for advertisement.

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Managed a CSL Division 2 League of Legends Team (and won second place!)

Duties: Organizing practice time and scrims with other universities, finding a support system for players, waking them up in the morning, doing after scrim evaluations with spreadsheets, and organizing events.