WORK / CV
October 2019 - December 2022
DigitalFish | Meta | Disney
DIGITALFISH
I worked at R&D company DigitalFish from October 2019-December 2021. Most of my work through this company was at Meta (described beneath this section), but I also worked on a couple projects with DigitalFish's IP in my time there.
Cavalcade AR Project
I colored 100's of frames of 2D animations and supported prototyping physics for the app in Unity.
Group Calling Effects
In Fall 2022, I was brought on to help with the ideation and creation of multipeer AR effects for Meta's Messenger and Instagram video calling products. I was responsible for creating the idea and basic Spark AR framework of the "Elemental Tea Party" effect (no longer active).


DISNEY
Also through DigitalFish, I was able to work on an internal testing product for Disney in Fall 2022.
Virtual Theater Tool
My first real foray into Unreal, I was responsible for creating most of the technical elements of this project. The final result is a VR theater that switches between 3 viewing experiences, each with different videos mapping to them.
META
I was a contingent worker on the Creative Engineering Team at Meta's Reality Labs from October 2019-June 2022. I worked onsite and remotely, and spent most of my time there working on experiences for Meta’s Portal product, with a few contributions to Instagram projects.

Maintenance
A major portion of my work was the complicated task of maintaining and debugging legacy effects for the Meta Portal.

Creation
This part of my job covered 3 types of creation in Spark AR:
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Creating actual effects to publish
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Creating templates for categories of effects in order to streamline effect creation
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Creating prototypes to test new capabilities and see how they could be used in effects

Odds & Ends
Creative Eng started as a Portal team, but proved versatile enough to be called on by many different teams and products at Meta. I was responsible for creating a few projects for Instagram:
An emergency (2-day) storyboard of a new feature to be pitched (the gif above this section shows a part of it)
An adaptation of the above Harry Potter Portal effect as a stand-alone Instagram mask
A template for cosmetic effects to be used by makeup brands in advertising on Instagram