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Vega / Xuan Bai

Senior Technical Artist

Bridging art and engineering through pipeline automation, tools development, real-time content workflows, and production-focused technical art.

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Industry experience: 9 years
Automated pipeline runs: 500+
Interactive projects: 15+
Artists using tools I built: 20+

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Production pipelines, tools, and real-time systems—followed by a focused selection of exploration projects.

PRODUCTION WORK

Game & Production Projects

Shipped game development, technical art pipelines, editor tools, and real-time production systems.

Out of Time

Manticore Games · 2026

Core-to-Unreal automation pipeline and large-scale mob rendering for a multiplayer rogue-lite

Impact

Artists kept Core's fast iteration while the runtime gained native UE performance. The pipeline became the performance foundation of Out of Time: ~50% fewer actors, ~90% fewer mob draw calls, and 200+ on-screen mobs at 30 FPS on Steam Deck.

Unreal Engine 4/5World Partition+6

Core Platform / Core Games

Manticore Games · 2020

Multiverse game engine and platform for user-generated games

Impact

Improved internal content creation workflows, supported shipped live experiences and marketplace content, and created tools that remained useful to production teams over multiple years.

Core GamesUnreal+4

UE Art Pipeline Tools

Manticore Games · 2020

Asset import, validation, and automation tooling on the Unreal side

Impact

Gave 20+ artists a UE-side tool layer they use daily, with import and setup collapsed into one click. 98 data-driven validation rules catch asset problems before they reach a build, bringing daily build errors from asset issues down to near zero.

Unreal Engine 4/5Python+4

DCC Tools / Pipeline

Manticore Games · 2020

Digital content creation tools and pipeline integrations

Impact

Standardized artist-facing DCC workflows, reduced manual export/setup work, and made pipeline tools easier for technical artists to maintain and extend.

MayaSubstance Painter+4

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EXPLORATIONS

Exploration Projects

Personal, student, and experimental work across games, AI, interactive tools, web development, and rapid prototyping.

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Road Trip: Ahead One

Personal Project · 2026

A browser-based idle and companion game supported by art-directed procedural worlds and an AI-assisted 3D asset pipeline

Impact

Built and publicly released a playable road-trip game while developing a reusable approach to procedural art direction, AI-assisted asset integration, runtime diagnosis, and safe content iteration. Visual refinement and broader performance validation remain in progress.

AIVibe Coding+9

AI Chat Avatar

Personal Project · 2023

Real-time conversational sales assistant with speech, viseme-driven lip sync, and character animation

Impact

Demonstrated a complete real-time conversational character workflow that unified cloud AI services with UE5 facial and body animation in a solo prototype.

AIUnreal Engine 5+6

WIP

My Gaming Room

Personal Project · 2026

An AI-to-3D asset pipeline for real-time interaction and MuJoCo simulation

Impact

Built a repeatable path from generated models to interactive and simulation assets, with checks tied to geometry quality, mechanical function, and measured contact. Asset replacements and environment additions can be evaluated against existing interfaces and validation results.

MuJoCoBlender+6