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Ruiyang ZhouRUIYANG ZHOU

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Ruiyang Zhou · Game Technical Artist

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01About

I’m Ruiyang Zhou, a technical artist pursuing a master’s degree in Entertainment Arts and Engineering (EAE) at the University of Utah, expected to graduate in May 2027.

My work centers on real-time production pipelines, spanning procedural assets and tools, materials and textures, character rendering, animation and motion capture, and AI-assisted content creation. I focus on bringing art direction into the engine in ways that are reliable and reusable.

This portfolio presents each project’s results, production process and key technical details.

02Selected work

08 PROJECTS

8 projects

03Resume

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Experience

2026.06–Present

Kuaishou · Kling AI

AI Technical Artist InternResponsibilities
  • Built procedural game assets with Houdini HDAs, using parameters to control geometry and materials for reuse, batch changes and variants.
  • Developed batch scripts with Python and LLM-assisted coding for asset modification, format conversion, error checking and task orchestration.
  • Packaged Deadline render-farm submission and batch-rendering workflows.
  • Built ComfyUI workflows for batch art production, including node orchestration, parameter presets, task execution and result selection.
  • Built video motion-capture workflows for UE5; combined PromptHMR and TRAM for multi-person separation, motion solving and animation adaptation.
  • Reconstructed camera motion with COLMAP and TRAM, evaluated SfM, SLAM and VO approaches, and synchronized camera trajectories to UE5.
  • Built a bone-driven muscle simulation tool in Maya, connecting rigging, animation and Qt workflows.
2026.03–2026.06

Tencent · Hunyuan

AI Technical Artist InternResponsibilities
  • Contributed to the Hunyuan 3D AIGC asset pipeline, bringing generated characters, props and environments into a procedural framework through parsing, conversion and standardization.
  • Analyzed and filtered 3D asset data quality, using multimodal models for classification, feature extraction and quality analysis.
  • Developed Python asset-checking and batch tools, maintaining model structure, PBR textures, material references and resource dependencies.
  • Built a conversion pipeline from AI-generated characters to MetaHuman assets, covering model parsing, skeleton adaptation, material transfer, retargeting and UE5 import.
  • Supported UE5 asset import, material validation, scene assembly and render checks to connect DCC resources with engine assets.
  • Used LLM-assisted coding and migrated bone-driven muscle simulation to UE5.
2025.07–2025.09

Tencent

Technical Art / 3D Character Technical Animation InternResponsibilities
  • Created procedural materials in Substance Designer with adjustable parameters and PBR texture outputs.
  • Supported the UE5 character-animation pipeline, asset maintenance, animation import, state machines, visual checks and MetaHuman skeleton and animation adaptation.
  • Processed AI-generated motion data with Maya, UE5 and Python tools, including format conversion, retargeting and validation.
2024.07–2024.09

Perfect World

Environment Art InternResponsibilities
  • Created scene props, blockouts and procedural assets in Maya and Houdini.
  • Authored materials and textures in Substance Designer and Substance Painter.
  • Supported engine import and animation testing.
2023.07–2023.09

China National Garment Association

Virtual Character & Digital Clothing Design InternResponsibilities
  • Modeled digital characters in Maya and Blender and tested animation in Unreal Engine.
  • Created virtual clothing and materials with Marvelous Designer and Substance Painter, including cloth simulation and motion adjustments.
  • Assisted with integrating clothing and character models and improving their interaction during animation.

Education

2025.08–2027.05

University of Utah · Master's degree

Entertainment Arts & Engineering · Technical Art
2021.09–2025.06

Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology · Bachelor's degree

Digital Media Art

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UNREAL ENGINE

Houdini / PCG
  • Houdini SOPs, HDAs, VEX, procedural assets and UE PCG Graph.
  • Parameter-driven assets connected to UE5 through HDAs.
  • Python and LLM-assisted batch processing, asset validation and task orchestration.
UE5 / Character animation
  • Blueprints, Animation Blueprints, Sequencer, MetaHuman and character retargeting.
  • Animation import, state machines, skeleton and animation adaptation, scene assembly and render validation.
  • HLSL vertex animation; Niagara, environment tools, lighting and post-processing.
Materials / Texturing
  • Procedural materials in Substance Designer, Substance Painter texturing and PBR outputs.
  • Material structure adapted to art direction and engine requirements.
AIGC workflows
  • ComfyUI, SDXL, Flux, Qwen, ControlNet Depth, Gemini, GPT Image and custom API JSON workflows.
  • AI asset parsing, quality analysis, batch processing, output selection and conversion to MetaHuman.
Video motion capture / Camera reconstruction
  • PromptHMR, TRAM and COLMAP for single- and multi-person solving, subject separation, animation adaptation and camera reconstruction.
  • Evaluation of SfM, SLAM and VO approaches, with camera trajectories synchronized to UE5.
Maya / Digital clothing
  • Maya, Blender and Marvelous Designer for modeling, cloth simulation, rigging and animation adaptation.
  • MetaHuman body and facial rigging in Maya, character topology and skin-weight adjustments.
Curve-driven sci-fi levels AI-assisted surface wear UE5 Stylized Character Rendering Video Motion Capture and Camera Reconstruction Procedural Crate Toolkit Procedural roads in Unreal Sci-fi metal surfaces Ego Echo
English / Collaboration
  • IELTS 7.0; independent reading of English technical documentation and communication in English.
  • Game jams and team competitions; four consecutive years as an organizing committee member and four consecutive years of university scholarships.

04Contact

Ruiyang Zhou

EMAIL
katesigood@163.com

Technical art / Procedural assets / AI content pipelines