Fairleigh Dickinson University

Master of Arts in Film and Animation, Video Games Concentration - GPA: 3.9

Fairleigh Dickinson University

Bachelor of Arts in Film and Animation, Video Games Concentration - GPA: 3.9

Union County College

Associate of Applied Science in Game Design and Development - GPA: 3.7

Software

3ds Max - Zbrush - Photoshop - Substance Painter - Unity - After Effects - Maya - Mudbox - Marmoset Toolbag - XNormal - Unity - Unreal - Audition - Visual Studio - Animate CC - Corel Painter - Fume FX - Visual Basic

Areas of Expertise

• High to low / Low to high polygons workflow

• Retopologizing, optimizing low-polygon models for game engines

• Environment and game assets creation

• Dynamic digital sculpting - Hard surface / Organic modeling

• Unwrapping, texturing, baking maps, rigging, skinning

• Texture painting, PBR materials

• Hair and fur using hair cards or plugins

• Character design, concept, and animation

• Particle effects

• Traditional and digital painting, drawing

• Concept arts - Pixel art

• Basic programming

To me, living a life is forever walking along the line between the past and the future. It is so hard

to catch a “moment” when in the present, the future keeps turning into the past. And there I live

in that transit stage, a short bridge crossing over two realms but no matter how fast I run, I cannot

reach either end. That is why I need artworks to capture the only time that I truly exist: the

present. Therefore, art is also where my past and future reach to merge, to harmonize or to

conflict, to struggle or to transform.

I came in when people were arguing that digital/computer art was not an art form. I did not know

what to say. Who I was to define Art when Art defined me? During my last teenage years, when

I first came to America, I slept in a tiny room that fit a desk and a bed that also served as a chair.

I left my painting supplies home, half the globe away because overweight luggage was sinful on

the airplanes and would get punished hard by the airlines. Inside that “drywall box”, my mind

went hungry for adventures into the vastness of the borderless fantasy world. However, for a

while, my world stayed black and white as pencil strokes on paper until I found out the way to

make computer screen my canvas and computer mouse my brush. It kept me walking steadily on

the bridge, tireless reaching for the future. Without that energy, I would turn back to run home.

So what are my arts? They are fragments of presents in the past, in which store my stages of

mind, levels of skills, subjects of interest at different phases of my journey on the bridge. They

are pieces of memories that paved the path I traveled. Looking at them, I can recall the emotions,

the thoughts, the condition of mind and body, and the world around me at the moment they

were created.