Sheehan Ahmed — Technical art and tools portfolio

The environment was provided; my contribution was the water shader and its effects.

• Built a water shader with character and environment reflections, plus footstep-driven ripples and splashes.
• Reduced reflection rendering costs for mobile by rendering only Keldeo dynamically and using a static reflection probe for the environment.
• Generated ripple rings in a separate pass from the collision points where Keldeo’s feet touch the water plane.
• Overlaid the ripple pass on the water normal map to animate the surface.

• Visualized attack timing alongside animations so designers and animators could tune combat frame data.
• Editable damage, cancellation, invincibility, multi-hit, and “sticky” frames that nudge the player toward the nearest enemy.
• Live knockback and screenshake edits with immediate in-game feedback and no recompilation.
• Enemy profiling, hitbox visualization, and built-in frame stepping.

Read the breakdown blogpost here.

Created a shared shader to handle all character materials in SPOOKULELE.

• Directional subsurface scattering
• Kajiya-Kay anisotropic hair shading
• Parallax occlusion mapping for eyes
• Character effects including flashes and disintegration

Grandma Green is a student-led, free-to-play virtual pet and gardening simulation game.

A Unity editor tool for the audio team to iterate on sound assets directly in the engine, with a workflow inspired by Wwise.

A desktop tool for combining texture channels into packed masks for PBR materials and VFX source textures.

Done as part of a Blizzard graphics test. I implemented:

• Point & directional lighting with PBR reflectance and normal mapping
• ambient & emissive lighting with environment-mapped reflections
• directional shadows & bloom

View the ShaderToy here.

Created to help the narrative team quickly and painlessly convert their shared Google Sheet workspace to game-compatible Yarn files.

Left on Read is an choice-driven narrative platformer about the harsh realities of modern age communication.

On Left on Read, I needed to provide my development partner, the writer of the story, with an easy solution to write texting conversations that felt natural. The protagonist needed to pause, delete words, rewrite sentences, and have a certain cadence to the way they wrote. It was imperative that we established their personality using these little texting quirks.

I wrote a text parsing solution that used <alligator> tags to define texting behaviors. With tags like <delete>, <pause>, or even opening up to custom events using a <custom> tag, I allowed my development partner full control to make whatever kind of text-based narrative he desired.

• Led a team of 7 3D artists to produce assets in a consistent style for the game
• Set dressed, lit, and authored vfx for the game environment

For more, see the Artstation here.

• Updated version of SPOOKULELE’s French Quarter level in Unreal engine.
• Modelled, sculpted, and textured various assets & trim sheets.

For more, see the Artstation post here.

Vango is a ranged, shielded enemy. I modelled, rigged and animated the Vango animations.