USC MFA · Technical Artist

Cemented Dreams

What I did

Created animated material and particle-effect studies, with gameplay and environment tests.
Developed the weather manager with Unreal C++ and Blueprints for Cemented Dreams.
Coordinated weather presets, fog, rain, and time-of-day controls.
Integrated Niagara rain and exposed controls for iteration.

Unreal Engine · Materials · VFX · C++ · Blueprint · Niagara

01 / EFFECTS SHOWCASE

Materials, particles & energy

Selected development recordings show the effects in motion, from material studies to gameplay and interior tests. Choose a category, then open a clip to explore my work.

02 / DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

Prototype archive

Five supporting studies preserve the early blockout, noise tests, and particle variations. Similar experiments are grouped here so the main gallery stays focused.

Explore the early prototypes · 5 studies

03 / WEATHER SYSTEM

Data-Driven Weather System

A reusable Unreal Engine weather manager built with C++ and Blueprints. Data-table presets coordinate rain, wetness, fog, clouds, sky light, post-processing, and time-of-day behavior through a clean, designer-friendly interface.

Dark blue sky in the weather-system test scene — Dark sky · recorded test view

Gray cloudy sky in the weather-system test scene — Cloudy sky · recorded test view

These two screenshots show contrasting sky appearances in the weather test scene. Open either image to inspect the full editor capture.

Weather controls & implementation evidence

Weather manager with light references, intensity and color curves, time of day and day speed — The manager exposes sun, moon, sky light, and fog references; curves for moon intensity, sky-light intensity, fog density, sky-light color, and fog color; plus Time Of Day and Day Speed.

Weather type dropdown listing rain, snow, clear, and fog variants — The dropdown lists None, GreyRain, GreenRain, Snow, Clear, CleanFog, GreyFog, and GreenFog. It documents the available selections, rather than demonstrating every weather state's final appearance.

Weather manager component tree and exposed rain and fog parameters — The component tree includes RainNiagara, SkyLightRef, SunLight, and SkyAtmosphere. Exposed parameters include rain colors and intensities, fog density and color variants, height falloff, albedo, time of day, and day speed.

Technical breakdown

Architecture

A C++ manager owns time and weather state while Blueprints expose iteration-friendly controls to artists and designers.

Content

Presets include multiple rain and fog variants with coordinated lighting, tint, wetness, and atmosphere values.

Production

Developed for Cemented Dreams, then extended as a modular personal portfolio system.