TA

TA: Technical Artist by Kerry and his course

Major problems to solve:

• deals with engines

• visual quality improvements

• performance optimization

Examples:

• particle effects: water simulation, destruction animation

• rendering: fire shader, styled shader, illuminations, and post-processing

• procedural tools and generations of geometry and various textures and weights, automatic object placements

• detailed animation synthesis, facial and muscle animation

• hair collision and interaction, cloth simulation

• animation format convertion

• software hardware optimization and compatibility

• geometry processing: face reduction, normal correction