Iciar Andreu Angulo​

At Blizzard Entertainment I have worked on a variety of tools for the modeling, rigging, and animation departments of the cinematics team.

Implemented Material Point Method to generated a gelatin-like simulation. Included a tetrahedral mesh parser in order to use it in complex meshes such as the Stanford bunny.

Implementation of a path tracer with different surface types and a lens based camera. In addition to the creation of a photon mapper and a ray tracer.

Created different post-processing effects using Worley noise, Fractional Brownian motion, a sober filter, etc. to create different results.

Experimented with creating different objects, environments, and characters in Maya such as the train station above based on the movie Hugo.

Practiced photography by taking multiple pictures during different trips using a Nikon D3300 DSLR camera. 

A lighthouse at night, created in ShaderToy using noise functions (such as Fractal Brownian motion and Worley noise) and signed distance functions. The waves and the light coming from the lighthouse are animated. Ray marching is used in the shader to render the image.

Simulation of cloth through the use of mass-spring systems, trying both implicit and explicit integrations. I additionally added an obj parser to be able to run the simulation on different meshes.

Group project to develop a simple version of Minecraft. My responsibilities included: procedurally generating different types of terrain, ray casting for removing and adding blocks, multithreading functionality, and player physics for swimming. 

Created different shaders to modify the look of the 3D Mario character  based on the normals, random functions, and modifying the vertex positions.

Worked as a research assistant while at the University of Maryland Institute of Advanced Computer Graphics. My projects included creating a video editor for 360 video, a VR experience to test implicit bias of police officers, and an immersive opera experience.

Created a shader that produces a procedurally generated terrain. Through the use of noise functions such as Fractal Brownian motion and Perlin Noise, I generated a desert mountainous look, including the different colors and smooth transitions. 

Collaborated with one partner to create an authoring tool in Maya that learns and propagates shape placements in 2D polygonal scenes from a few examples provided by the user.

Created a program with some of the basic functionalities of Autodesk Maya, including importing from obj, extruding, Catmull-Clark subdividing, triangulating faces, splitting edges, and adding a basic skeleton.

Created a 3D triangle rasterization program that includes perspective-correct interpolation, texture mapping, and Lambertian reflection.

I wrote, directed, shot, and edited the short film The Hike. Other experimental videos and more editing work can be found on Vimeo.