Amy Cao

Offering creative skill set and willingness to learn and grow in dynamic environment. Brings understanding of game design principles, concept, and technical art skill. Ready to use and develop talents in an entry-level character artist and technical artist role.

Character Selection Interface

• I designed and built a character interface for an imaginative one-on-one arena game using Unreal Engine and Photoshop. I focused on crafting a diverse lineup of characters inspired by domesticated pets and integrating them into a game world. This project heavily emphasizes on concept art, technical art, and UI design.

Alien Invasion

• Using Unreal Engine, I explored the multidisciplinary nature of video game development, including narrative development, concept art, computer science, game design, 3D modeling and animation, graphic design, user experience, user testing, psychology, and marketing to create a playable game. The story follows a character whose home has been overtaken and transformed from a once-familiar place into something dark by aliens. This project showcases my expertise and learning curves in technical art.

Robecca

• I created an imaginative universe centered around a robot girl that goes on an adventure to conquering different planets with her companions. This project emphasizes storytelling, concept art, 3D modeling and animation featuring graphic applications like Maya.

Gold Digger

• Along with 4 other colleague, I created a board game centered around mining for gold. Focused on game design, originality, and balance while developing skills to identify play elements, analyze games, create prototypes, and interpret games as cultural artifacts

Bubble Blade

• Designed and developed a custom blade for Fruit Ninja as part of my Creative Coding course at Virginia Tech. Using JavaScript in Processing, I integrated both computable thinking, troubleshooting, sound effect, and visual effects to enhance user experience.

Freshman Representative of Chinese American Society Virginia Tech

• Developed and facilitated interactive activities for over 150 society members in person and virtually during COVID-19.

Vice President of Art Honor Society Heritage Highschool

• Collaborated with a team of 20 students to create large-scale mural paintings for local businesses and schools. Designed a variety of artworks for window paintings, murals, and holiday cards.