Zhou Lin

Birth: 1981.6
Email: fancyzero@live.cn Cellphone: (+86) 138-1696-0209

Chinese Ver  

Strengths

• A passionate game developer, Make games since 14 years old.
• Quick learner, good at pattern recognition.
• Have a good understanding in render technics, accomplished a simple software renderer (included transforming and rasterizing)
• Experienced in client architecture, including resource management, multithread rendering, scripting, scene management, etc.
• Familiar with reverse engineering and assembly analysis.
• Experienced with C++ (including C++11), and Familiar with Objective-C, Python, Object-Pascal, Basic. And understand the concepts of functional programming language, e.g. Haskell, erlang.Good art appreciation.
• Familiar with data structure and common algorithms.
• Favorite games: Quake I, StarCraft I, Dota2
• Hobby: Piano, Composing music, Pixel art
• Familiar with Unreal Engine and Unity

Experience

Personal Project

• Space shooting Indie game (WIP)
• Python for iOS
• Embed python using SWIG
• LOD Terrain system
• In-house Game Engine 2D/3D
• Software renderer
• A dynamic UI system described by XML(Used in o2mania)
• UE4 voxelization using only Blueprint and material
• game resource rip (Civil 6, One piece: world seeker, etc.)
• Shadertoy: https://www.shadertoy.com/user/fancyzero
• Bilibili: https://space.bilibili.com/445693652
• O2mania (Music game) http://o2mania.info. decrypted two popular online music game’s fileformat(O2Jam & DJMax), and developed a standalone client from scratch, not using anything from original games, except resources.

2023.4 - present , OmniGames

Project:Cross-Platform Development of UE5 Open world ARPG

Responsibility:

• Directed the engine team's work, ensuring that the entire system's architecture and implementation met product requirements.
• Conducted extensive foundational technical work during the project's early stages, such as determining benchmark resources, art production processes, and technical selection in various areas.
• Modified the engine, customized the stylized rendering pipeline, and created custom materials.
• Assisted artists in reverse engineering scenes and characters from other games (e.g., automatic replication of scenes from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Genshin Impact, etc., into UE5).
• Researched new technologies to assess their potential for innovation and development.
• Promoted quality and performance by setting performance metrics and establishing automated testing processes.
• Assisted in identifying technical risks and developing response plans.
• Conducted development of PCG, Control Rig, GI, etc., within the UE5 framework, and guided artists in their use.
• Organize and manage tasks to team members, provided necessary assistance, and ensured timely and high-quality delivery.

2021.7 - 2023.4, Wooduan

Techinical Artist Expert

Project: BattleTeam 2 (PC FPS)

Responsibility:

• The project is based on Unity 5.6 which is very old and the team is doing almost everything in a wrong way, so I did a lot of work with artists and programmers to figure out a better/efficient way at various stages of development.
• Coordinating with Artists/Programmers
• Reorganize Lighting pipeline
• Reorganize Material pipeline
• Optimize shaders, rendering, engine,
• Advandce shaders and authoring tools
• Reorganize art assets pipeline ( assets sanity check, assets publish system )
• Making tools for artists
• Training other TAs, enhance other TAs ability
• Regular team management

2019.3 - 2021.7, Riot Games HongKong

Techinical Artist III

Project: League of Legends

Responsibility:

• Art pipeline
• Making tools for artists
• Training other TAs
• Organize and optimize art pipeline for KUDOS artists
• Making automatic rendering tools for TFT
• Debug and fix engine bugs
• Adding new feature to the LOL editor
• Making and optimize shaders for LOL
• Establish a cummunication between KUDOS and Riot Games, straighten out the chaotic art process, solve most of the tools and process problems, and greatly improve production efficiency

2019.8 - 2019.12, Perfect World

Technical Artist Expert/Leader
Responsibility:  

• providing tech support for teams
• cel-shading/ cartoon rendering shader
• work with artists to reach their goal of art style
• cartoon ocean
• automatic normal generate base on least-square for cartoon rendering

2018.4 - 2019.7, Tencent

Senior graphic/engine programmer
Responsibility:  

• Graphic / Engine R&D
• providing tech support for teams, from various of projects
• Ocean rendering based on FFT using computer shader in UE4
• Evaluate and debug NVidia Blast plugin for UE4
• project health morniting pipeline ( unity and UE4 )
• interactive snow
• content generation using houdini
• cel shading/cartoon rendeirng solution， including nromal editing tool in 3dsMax

2014.9 - 2018.4, CCP shanghai

Project: Gunjack

Principal Technical Artist/Programmer
Responsibility:

• Providing tech support for the team, figure out solutions
• Setup art tools and workflow
• Making tools
• Performance optimization/ Profiling
• Help artist to using UE4
• Using and get familiar with WWise as an audio solution for project
• Learning stuff that I interested.

2007.5 - 2014.9, Playcool (Alternate: Icee)

Project: N/A

Technic support
Responsibility:

• Focus on solving technical problems for all other project team
• Provide advice on technical solutions
• Develop fundamental modules for other team to use, such as: game content auto update system; customized UI component; plugins for 3DMax or other third party tools.
• Learning stuff that I insrested.

Project: TaoYuan (MMORPG)

Engine programmer
Responsibility

• Tune and refine UE3 to suit with project needs, such as Navigation meshes, 3DMax plugins, none-blocking character loading, etc. Read and modified lots of UE3 source codes.
• Performances optimize.
• Making Tools for designer and artists
• Shader template composition
• Game launcher with an auto update system
• Third party tools evaluation. (Cooperated with Substance Redux for few weeks).
• Teaching artists on using UE3, and some TA work

Project: TopSpeed (Car racing game)

Client programmer
Responsibility

• All rendering related works.(Fixed pipeline)
• Performances optimize.
• Making Tools for designer and artists
• Some gameplay related works.

2005 - 2007.5, Masq

Project: LiuLiu (Pet game)

Client programmer
Responsibility

• Client Framework.
• Gameplay code.
• A html based UI system, using OLE, internet ActiveX control

2003 - 2005, YiXi Shanghai

Project: Salvation (MMORPG)

Client programmer
Responsibility

• A sky system with varying effects through day and night
• Gameplay code.
• Making Tools for designer and artists
• Scene editor: terrain editing, scene object placement, shore wave auto generation, etc.
• Dynamic map loading.

Education

1999 - 2007, Shanghai Television University.