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Working on Mortal Kombat 1 has been very exciting. With the technical art team we developed setups that have never before been in realtime games. I have joined this project at its very start, which allowed me to do cutting-edge R&D developing new methods of creating realtime blood.

I tutored the VFX team in Niagara and creating custom Niagara modules, and set up the initial blood creation workflow from Houdini to Unreal. I created tutorial videos to take artists through this workflow step by step.

My production responsibilities included:

• Houdini to Unreal Blood workflow development
• Niagara Tutor
• Team Management, client communication
• Shader / Material creation & implementation
• Niagara Particle creation & implementation
• Unreal Blueprint and Niagara Module creation
• VATs, Meshes, Textures

Some of the tasks I worked on for Mortal Kombat 1:

• Creating animated blood meshes with VATs to be used with Houdini point caches
• Building a library of static blood meshes for droplets and spray elements
• Optimizing performance to achieve the highest quality for 60Hz playback
• Art Directed Character FX
• Directing particle motion/behavior from character/environment driven forces
• Spline driven particle motion for character buff FX
• Building library of pre-rendered content for fire/smoke/wisps