About Me Duolatera Runtime Procedural Generation Artwork VR Exercise Research

Tsingtao Zhang

Hi, I'm Tsingtao, a technical artist. I graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with Master degree of Game Design and Development On August, 2025.
I focus on pipeline & tools development, procedural content generation, and graphics programming. I have extensive experience in with both Unity and Unreal Engine, and VR game development for Meta Quest. Meanwhile, I'm also a 3D environmental artist.
My projects include a game as capstone project, GPU raytracer, some of my work samples and artwork.
In my life, I'm a bass in choir, a good cook, and a hardcore racing gamer. I once built a steering wheel from motor and PBC boards.

Email: tsingzhang1@gmail.com
Phone: 585-615-0628

Duolatera

An online VR 2-player co-op puzzle game.

Technical Artist & Gameplay Programmer | 7 mo | 5-people project

This is an online VR 2-player co-op puzzle game made with Unreal Engine 5. In this deserted alien world, 2 players open portals with their laser tools and interact with escape room puzzles, in order to find their way back to earth.

My role for this project is technical artist and gameplay programmer. As a technical artist, I've designed and maintained asset production pipeline, built pipeline and PCG tools, created Art Bible, and managed art team. As a gameplay programmer, I've implemented multiple gameplay mechanisms, multiplayer GameMode for our project, and IK animation for players' avatars.

Runtime Procedural Generation

A tech demo of runtime generation game

Technical Artist | 3 mo | solo project

This is a tech demo of a runtime procedural generation game, developed and tested on both Unreal and Unity, leveraging each of their own strengths.

I utlized compute shader to calculate the transform for each instance, and the vertex shader takes data directly from GPU. Therefore no CPU is involved in runtime procedural generation.

Environment Tech Art Collection

Infinity's House

This section holds my artwork collection, including my work sample at The Forge

On the right is my environment art piece made in Blender.

Skills I used:
Modeling (sculpting and hard surface)
Procedural technical shading and texture painting
animation and video editing.

Software:
Blender
Substance Painter
Photoshop

Ocean Simulator

A GLSL shader.

Graphics Programmer | 3 mo | 2-person project

This is a Ocean Simulator shader based on Raytracer (See GLSL Raytracer below).
The shader is written in GLSL run with OpenGL.

My contribution includes caustics effect, mouse clicking interaction, and ripple effect.

GPU Raytracer in OpenGL

Graphics Programmer | 4 mo | solo project

This is my individual project assignment for CSCI-711 Global Illumination.
I recreated the Whitted-style ray tracing image using OpenGL and GLSL by defining spheres and triangles in the shader.
Utilizing the power of modern GPU, I could generate the image in real time.

My work consists of ray-object intersection (object includes sphere and triangles),
global lighting and shadowing using ray tracing,
texture, reflection, refraction, as well as tone reproduction as post processing.

Ellic Exercise Game - User Study

A research on user's exercise intensity

Gameplay Programmer | 3 mo | group research project

This is my summer work as Graduate Research Assistant in RIT. The research focuses on how gameplay parameters affect user's exercise intensity.

Based on an existing project made with Unity, I optimized the gameplay to fit for long-time user data collection, configured a wireless live testing environment, and implemented an auto-aiming, block-avoiding AI shooter.