Open for work. Self-taught 3D pipeline and AI-tooling engineer. I ship games solo, fast. Built a 100-player game alone in 2 weeks. Built pipelines that took production from 2 weeks to 5 days and cut costs by 60%. Consulting or project work. Remote, in Bali. Work's at ilyakurkin.com, you can contact me fast in TG: @UNDERUNDER1 #gamedev #3dart #UnrealEngine #Unity #Roblox #indiedev

Substance Painter filter that gives your textures a brush-painted look 🎨

Some of the modular column Hi-Poly assets for the Seedworld environment.

I love trim sheets.

Skull mask Hi-Poly + Textured + AR test integration.

Some of the Hi-Poly assets for the WildLands forest environment.

Cooking 🥵

I created a crystal sphere as a micro-asset for the column. But after resizing and deforming it, I ended up with some pretty cool crystals for the environment. The material, shader, and mesh are the same. From a technical standpoint, the crystals and the sphere are identical.

Modular gang characters for a client's Roblox project. All 3 chars packed into one 2k PBR material.

The vibe of the Smashline game demo.

Just a quick game environment example of a forest scene.

Smart tip: Modular props let you create far more unique combinations at no additional production cost.

Have you ever wondered what Master Chief looks like without his helmet? 🤔 He looks exactly like me, it's crazy. For the face animation, I used the "FaceIt" addon in Blender for facial rigging + a separate iPhone app for real-time face-capture "live link face".

Agreed, Three.js + Claude is a killer

In my opinion, @marmosetco Toolbag has the best rendering engine for presenting 3D models. Do you agree? 🤔

Professional question: Do you think the amount of high-poly detail is overkill for this low-poly mesh density?

An example of how to save space for useful texture details in a UV unwrap using adaptive texel density and mirrored UV.

Professional question: Imagine that you have several different body types, and you need to use common animations so that you don't have to create or adapt unique movement animations for each body type every time. Your approach? 🤔

Here's an interesting example of how I went about implementing a crowd of NPCs for a Roblox project. 1. First, I created a modular pipeline for character customization that includes interchangeable mesh parts for the head, upper body, lower body, shoes, hands, and accessories. 2. Next, I created a base model, set up the rig, and then expanded it with additional interchangeable modular content. This way, all NPCs share the same rig and can use the common animations. Most of the animations were sourced from Mixamo, and I refined them further in Cascadeur by tweaking the base versions and enhancing them with subtle micro-movements. 3. After the pipeline was set up and the content was refined for high-quality modularity, I moved on to working in Roblox Studio. To add some variety, and with the help of Claude Code, I created a Roblox Studio plugin that lets me change NPC body types and randomize the design and color of modular parts based on tags. Each modular set uses a single PBR material. To change the color of the modular parts, I used SurfaceAppearance TintMask. Now that I have this system, I can easily add unique pieces of new character content to the general pool and create millions of unique combinations without spending much time. And the best part is that this system works great for any modular character system.

Tileable staircase material approach. Then we can use spline tools to build extra staircase design options. Is there a more convenient and optimized approach to creating stylized staircases? 🤔