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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 · 2020

Multiplayer rogue-lite game with Core-to-UE automation pipeline

Impact

Enabled faster iteration on large open-world maps and major runtime performance improvements, including approximately 90% draw-call reduction for VAT mob rendering.

Unreal Engine 4/5Blueprint+4

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

Automation and validation tools for Unreal Engine art pipeline

Impact

Reduced repetitive artist setup work, caught asset issues earlier, and standardized Unreal-side workflows across multiple production tools.

Unreal Engine 4/5Blueprint+3

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.

WIP

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

Designing a personal room, building its high-poly assets, and taking the scene into Three.js interaction and MuJoCo simulation

Impact

Created two usable derivatives of one authored room: a browser experience for exploring the design and a physics environment for testing mechanisms and contact. The project connects visual development with asset preparation, runtime behavior, and reproducible validation.

MuJoCoBlender+6