Tech Artist

Sue Gonzalez

Hello!

My name is Sue. I'm a Vancouver based Front-End dev with a passion for Game Development, here to create beautiful, enjoyable experiences applying all my art, design, and coding skills!

April 2022 - Current

Archiact

Tech Artist
Implemented and developed the functionality of 3D assets into the game.
Developed game mechanics in C++.
Conducted regular performance reviews, optimizing when necessary.

September 2021 - April 2022

EA Vancouver

Associate Tech Artist
Maintained and optimized art pipelines for the conversion of assets from console to mobile.
Developed tools in C# for artists to make workflows more efficient.

2022
2021
2019
2018
2017
2016

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Kitsune

Role: Tech Artist, UI Designer, Developer | Team Size: 4

Kitsune is an action adventure game. I modeled, UV mapped and textured the 3D environmental assets with Maya and Mudbox, and implemented the lighting and color grading of the game. For the low poly visuals, I manually programmed the shaders with CG, HLSL and ShaderLab. I created all the sprites, particle effects, and 2D assets for the UI.

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Quack?

Role: Tech Artist, Developer, 3D Character Modeller | Team Size: 5

Quack is a 3D third-person game for GGJ2021 in which you are a small duck who fell into the sewers and has to rescue their siblings to get out. I modeled and textured the duck characters with Maya and Substance Painter, and implemented the lighting and color grading of the game. For the low poly visuals, I manually programmed the shaders with CG, HLSL and ShaderLab.

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Ecosystem Sym

Role: Developer | Team Size: 1

Ecosystem Sym is a tool created in Unity to recreate the behavior of simple animal AI, inspired by the work of Sebastian Lague. I programmed the procedural generation of a terrrain based on noise with custom random placement of plants and animals. I also created state machines for simple animal AI to simulate behaviors such as Roam, Find Food, Mate, Die, etc

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Lost Spirit

Role: UI Designer, Developer | Team Size: 5

Lost Spirit is a first person 3D puzzle. I designed and implemented the UI, including the 2D assets used. Mainly, my role was as developer, implementing mechanics, like lifting the block. The game was developed in Unreal Engine using Blueprints and C++.

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Proyecto Silbato

Role: UI/UX Designer, Web Developer | Team Size: 4

Proyecto Silbato was developed to combat sexual harassment in Mexico City. It is an app for web and mobile that allows its users to make a report when they either witness or suffer an instance of harassment. This information is then collected into useful graphs for the government. I developed the web version and worked as the UI/UX designer.

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Sulky Squirrels

Role: UI/UX Designer, Web Developer | Team Size: 2

Sulky Squirrels is a 2D catapult game for web. Players can create and play their own levels. I created and implemented the UI, as well as coded the entirety of the level designer using JavaScript (ES7), HTML5, CSS3, and AJAX with JSON to store the level information.

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Arr! Space Pirates

Role: UI/UX Designer, Web Developer | Team Size: 1

Arr! Space Pirates is a battleship game for one or two players. I designed and implemented the UI. I created all the logic of the game, including the CPU to play against the user. The tools I used were vanilla JavaScript (ES7), HTML5, CSS3, and AJAX with JSON to store the highscore information.

Kitsune

Ecosystem

Quack?

Lost Spirit

Squirrels

Arr!

Silbato

Technical Artist

Sue Gonzalez

Hello!

Tech Artist

Sue Gonzalez

Hello!

April 2022 - Current

Archiact

September 2021 - April 2022

EA Vancouver

September 2021

British Columbia Institute of Technology

May 2021 - August 2021

ManyHats (Contract)

August 2019

Vancouver Film School

Sep 2017 - Apr 2018

Sngular Mexico

Jan 2017 - Aug 2017

Scotiabank Digital Factory Mexico

December 2016

Tecnológico de Monterrey

Apr 2016 - Dec 2016

UberProto Technologies

Games

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Art & Design

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Coding

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Kitsune

Role: Tech Artist, UI Designer, Developer | Team Size: 4

Quack?

Role: Tech Artist, Developer, 3D Character Modeller | Team Size: 5

Ecosystem Sym

Role: Developer | Team Size: 1

Lost Spirit

Role: UI Designer, Developer | Team Size: 5

Proyecto Silbato

Role: UI/UX Designer, Web Developer | Team Size: 4

Sulky Squirrels

Role: UI/UX Designer, Web Developer | Team Size: 2

Arr! Space Pirates

Role: UI/UX Designer, Web Developer | Team Size: 1

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