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Ari Williams

Technical Artist

Summary

Detail-oriented Technical Artist/ Unity generalist with a degree in Games and Virtual Reality, a passion for technology and a drive to offer creative approaches to technical tasks. Equal parts artist and developer excited to be at the intersection where creativity and problem solving meet.

Overview

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Work History

Technical Artist

Volta XR
09.2021 - 02.2022
  • I have been the Technical Artist and primary creative at Volta for the past 2 years My current responsibilities include building and maintaining 3D assets and Visual Effects in Unity.
  • These assets include Shaders, VFX, custom 3D Models and other generative visuals, these are designed to be fully customizable by users.
  • My responsibilities include onboarding new creatives, helping produce and maintain tooling within Unity, handling talks with freelancers and assessing any creative work produced within the company.
  • I have been involved in producing visuals for a number of high profile events such as the Glastonbury Music Festival and Richie Hawtin's From Our Minds - TBA Tour

Unity Developer

ISO Design
09.2021 - 02.2022
  • This is a project made in collaboration with GSA and ISO Design working on an exhibit for the Blackpool Showtown Museum
  • As a Lead Programmer in this project my key responsibilities were: planning and distributing resources within the team, creating an application that is lightweight and easily scalable, assisting and creating tools for the programmers on my team, pitching and presenting the idea to the client and developing a user testing plan.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Games and Virtual Reality

Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow
05.2017 - 2019.05

Skills

    Asset Management

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Certification

Unity Associate: Programmer, 2022

Volunteer Experience

  • RNIB
  • The Edinburgh Cat and Dog Home

Software

Unity Engine

Blender

3DS Max

Substance Designer

Photoshop

Premiere Pro

Timeline

Unity Developer

ISO Design
09.2021 - 02.2022

Technical Artist

Volta XR
09.2021 - 02.2022

Bachelor of Science - Games and Virtual Reality

Glasgow School of Art
05.2017 - 2019.05
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