Yamei Liao
Brooklyn,NY
Summary
3D | XR | Creative Designer As a multidisciplinary designer and Parsons School of Design alum, I excel in creating experimental visuals and interactive designs across game design, XR, AI-driven design, motion, and graphic design projects with diverse experience with creative and entertainment industries to blend cutting-edge technology with creativity, delivering immersive experiences that align company goals with user engagement.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
Work History
Unreal Engine Designer(Generalist) Wlab
Wlab
04.2023 - 02.2024
- Emerging virtual production company works with Disney, Amazon, Sony, and independent producers worldwide to create films and videos using cutting-edge technologies and the most powerful gaming engine
- Shipped over 20 Unreal Engine levels for 95% of the company’s project, from design to creation, while also successfully building the operational pipeline of Livelink, multiuser system, and interactive physical components
- Led the production of XR (Extended Reality) and MR (Mixed Reality) content, and worked closely with the PM throughout the design process, which included brainstorming, ideation, whiteboxing, 3D model development, final-level polishing, and integrating physical computing components
- Successfully managed various virtual production projects in different fields, including music videos, XR fashion runway, dance films, documentation, multiple artistic shooting and live event.
VR Game Designer
Things You Want To Control Z
01.2023 - 05.2023
- Things You Want to Ctrl +Z
- Designed and Developed a high-quality 100% original VR experience which centers on human emotion - regrets, through a series of interactions and narratives
- Successfully launched the project in 5 months, through Ideation, brainstorming, extensive research quick prototyping of total 5 ideas and iterated into 2 final prototypes with multiple user testing sections
- Combined AI and 3D modeling in Blender, Zbrush to created 100% the assets used in the game environ- ment
- Awarded for the aesthetically pleasing and immersive environment designed for visual storytelling.
Digital Fashion Designer Roblox
01.2023 - 05.2023
- Collaborated closely with industrial fashion designers, Roblox developers and designers to create a comprehensive digital look consisting of four unique pieces
- Featured on the Roblox 2023 Digital
- Expressions Report, and currently selling on the Roblox market
- Successfully revamped the design pipeline for Roblox’s newest Layer Clothing System, by using
- ClO3D, Zbrush and Blender to 3D modeling high-res mesh and retopolgy, unwrapping UV, bake model info, rigging and weight painting the model use Substance Painter to create final PBR textures
- Led the creation of a cutting-edge try-on augmented reality (AR) filter of Roblox digital fashion collec- tion comprising nine distinct pieces, exhibited at the off-line Roblox pop -up show.
Creative Designer
01.2023 - 05.2023
- DunDu.n International
- A B2B NYC based fashion agency promoting emerging fashion brands, which focuses on facilitating community building and empowering emerging fashion designers through brick-and-mortar activations
- Evaluated current branding, products, and company details to create new style guides, and present alternative styles and design
- Redesign the overall branding for Dundu.n and created high quality visual marketing content
- Designed and developed all the packages for Dundu.n Fashion week event including branding posters, video packagings, AR filter, interactive projection mapping and other peripheral product using C4D
- After Effect, SparkAR, TouchDesigner
- Successfully launched the project with Dundu.n and increasing 200x market exposure, draws 2000+ offline event visitors.
Creative Designer of Amorphous
Quantum Design
01.2023 - 05.2023
- Jam
- The Design Jam brings students, faculty, experts and practitioners together to explore Art, Design, Music and Quantum Computing
- Managed the design progress during the week-long design Jam and created the final metaverse biodata based digital garment series with Quantum Cryptography
- Used TouchDesigner to design a series of digital garments with the bio data that encrypted by Quantum
- Cryptography in Python which proposed the use of biological data encryption in the virtual world
- Delivered the key visual and conceptual design of the project during the final presentation, and awarded in creative use of Quantum Technology in visual Arts
- AWARD
Education
STEM - Economics
Master of Fine Art (MFA) - Design and Technology
Parsons School of Design - The New
School
2023
Bachlors of Science - Technology Art and Media
University of Colorado Boulder
2020
Skills
- SKILLS 03
- Game Design/XR Development/Design/
- Multi-Platforms Game Design/Interactive
- Design/3D Design/Motion Design/Graphic
- Design/Physical Computing/Virtual Production/
- Visual Design/ Prototypes/UIUX Design/Proto-
- Typing/Wireframing Design Systems/ Information
- Architecture/Usability Testing/
- Design Skills
- Tools
- Unreal Engine/Unity/MAYA/Motion Builder/Cin-
- Ema4D/Blender/SparkAR/SketchUP/Zbrush/
- Red Giant/AfterEffect/SubstancePainter/Houd-
- Ini/Marvelous Designer/Figma/Adobe Creative
- Suite/C#/C/Python/ Basic HTML/CSS/JavaS-
- Cript
Timeline
Unreal Engine Designer(Generalist) Wlab
Wlab
04.2023 - 02.2024
VR Game Designer
Things You Want To Control Z
01.2023 - 05.2023
Digital Fashion Designer Roblox
01.2023 - 05.2023
Creative Designer
01.2023 - 05.2023
Creative Designer of Amorphous
Quantum Design
01.2023 - 05.2023
STEM - Economics
Master of Fine Art (MFA) - Design and Technology
Parsons School of Design - The New
School
Bachlors of Science - Technology Art and Media
University of Colorado Boulder
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