Off Balance
Action game development using a human-scale roly-poly ball as the control mechanic. Focused on Substance Designer materials and stylized VFX.
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Professional Summary
About Me
Ziqi Lu is a graduate student at the University of Utah, majoring in the Master of Entertainment Art and Engineering, Technical Art track. He is previously an undergraduate student at the Tsinghua University, majoring in Mathematics and Physics + Civil Engineering and Systems.
He is interested in the intersection of computer science and art, with a focus on the development of new algorithms and tools for the creation of digital art of high-fidelity physical correctness as well as expressiveness.
He is also interested in implementing these new-tech tools as a creator, for which I have developed basic skills in digital art, music, and game design.
This website is still under construction. For more information, please refer to his GitHub.
Education
Master of Entertainment Art & Engineering
University of Utah
BSc Math and Physics & Civil Engineering and Systems
Tsinghua University
Interests
Computer Graphics / Rendering
Artificial Intelligence
Shader Programming
Visual Effects
Projects
Project Titan
A tutorial-based technical study validating Houdini's procedural workflows through an Unreal Engine 5 environment recreation.
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Offbeat Reprise
Side-scroller bullet-time shooter game developed in Unity. Worked as everything except game and level design
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Sherlock Holmes: Perfect Crime
Work as a 3D artist on Lighting and Hero prop modeling & texturing
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Living Strokes
VR puzzle game in course Rapid Prototype. Aiming to teach Chinese characters.
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Experience
Research Assistant, Advisor Yin Yang
University of UtahInternship in Graphics Lab, U of UtahResearch Assistant, Advisor Shi-Min Hu & Tai-Jiang Mu
Tsinghua UniversityInternship in Graphics and Geometric Computing Group, Department of Computer Science and Technology
Education
Master of Entertainment Art & Engineering
University of UtahCurrently enrolled. Trying to be a generalist Technical Artist.BSc Math and Physics & Civil Engineering and Systems
Tsinghua UniversityGPA: 3.57/4.0
Courses included:
- Digital Design and Embedded System, High Performance Computing, Computer Systems, Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Structure
- Film Score Production, Recording and TV Music Production
- Mathematical Physics Equations, Numerical Analysis, Probability and Stochastic Processes
Skills & Hobbies
Programming Languages
Python
C/C++
CUDA
C#
GLSL
Java
DCC Softwares
blender
Maya
Unreal Engine
Unity
Houdini
Substance Designer
Davinci Resolve
ZBrush
Marvelous Designer
Hobbies
Game Modding
Cinemaphotography
Video Editing
Video Gaming
Music
Violin
Featured Publications
TerraCraft: City-scale generative procedural modeling with natural languages
Automated generation of large-scale 3D scenes presents a significant challenge due to the required training resources and datasets for 3D scenes. TerraCraft enables users to easily …
Zi-Chen Xi
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TerraCraft: City-scale generative procedural modeling with natural languages.
TerraCraft.
Recent Posts
Procedural Texturing | Real-time Rendering Chapter 6.3
Procedural Texturing Although procedural textures are commonly used in offline rendering applications, image textures are far more common in real-time rendering. This is due to the …
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Premultiplied Alphas and Compositing | Real-time Rendering Chapter 5.5.3
Premultiplied Alphas and Compositing The over operator is also used for blending together photographs or synthetic renderings of objects. This process is called compositing. The …
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Languages
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English
100%
Chinese
50%
Quenya