Cullen Goodwin-Schoen

Real-Time Graphics Engineer

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About Me

Who I am

Hey! I'm Cullen, a Real-Time Graphics engineer with vast experience in C++, OpenGL, rendering pipelines, and working with a team.

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I've always loved exploring the unknown, whether it's backpacking through the Alps, learning new software, APIs, and languages, or creating vast 3D environments and fictional game worlds.

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By having experience at every step in the rendering process, I am able to successfully communicate, and quickly resolve, problems and bugs that may arise.

Resume

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My Work: Games

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Target Practice

Group Class Project, 2019

A 3D FPS- made with a team of 4

Made in OpenGL and C++

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My Role

Developer, Technical Artist

My Responsibilites

Developed a 3D FPS camera with full rotation and WASD movement, using quaternions to prevent Gimbal Lock

Implemented AABB Collision detection for the first person character

Created data structures to implement menus, track bullets, ammo, time, and score

Imported, created, and laid out original FBX models of boxes, walls, and barrels into the OpenGL scene

Capital City Guessing Game

Solo Class Project, 2019

A Geography game using Google's Street View, Maps, and Firebase

Data pulled from the World Bank API and displayed with VueJS and Bootstrap

Interact with a live version of the site, Enter a user name to save your high score!

My Role

Sole Developer, Designer

My Responsibilites

Implemented Google's Streetview, Firebase and Map APIs into a web game using JavaScript

Designed a reactive, responsive page using VueJS and Bootstrap, also creating page styles with CSS and HTML

Wrote a proxy to receive capital coordinate data from the World Bank API

Stored and displayed high scores on the site via Firebase

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Beehive Tower Defense

Wild Magic! Game Jam, 2019

A 2D Tower Defense Game- made with a team of 3

Created in 36 hours, prompted off 2 random Tarot cards (Empress, 9 of Swords)

Made in Unity with C#

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My Role

Technical Artist, Developer

My Responsibilites

Aided in the development of enemy classes and waypoint following

Developed all art assets, UI and menus

Implemented functionality for menus, UI, and level selection into the Unity pipeline with C#

Designed balanced levels and tower/currency system

Breakaway!

Group Class Project, 2018

A 2D Hockey Sidescroller- made with a team of 4

Made in Monogame and C#

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My Role

Technical Artist, Lead Artist

My Responsibilites

Developed multiple data structures for character selection and scores

Developed all art assets, UI, menus, and animations

Implemented functionality for menus and animations into the Monogame pipeline

Jeopardy Question Search

Two-Person Class Project, 2018

An interactive quiz experience with JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, using the Jservice API

Interact with a live version of the site, use the drop downs and sliders to find questions, hover over them for the answersOnly Available For Play on Desktop Version

My Role

Interaction developer, Designer

My Responsibilites

Designed the layout and functionality of the webpage to make it an interactive 'game'

Used Jquery and CSS to create an appealing, responsive layout

Allowed for users to search questions based on their selections

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Penalty Kill

Asteroids

Solo Class Project, 2018

An asteroids-like hockey game

Play the game below, arrow keys to move, hold and release spacebar to shootOnly Available For Play on Desktop Version

My Role

Sole Developer and Artist

My Responsibilites

Programmed realistic ice physics, collision detection, and movement; along with random enemy movement

Created a 'shot power' system for projectile acceleration from user input of holding down the spacebar

Developed all art assets, UI, menus, and C# scripts

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My Work:Tech Art

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Rigging Tools

Maya Rigging Tools

Class Projects, 2019

Auto Face Rig

An automatic face rigging tool, creating a custom UI and importing blend shapes, made in Python for use in Maya

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Source Code: View on Github

Full Body Auto-Rig

A quick automatic rigging tool for bi-peds, made in Python for use in Maya

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Source Code: View on Github

Rigs

Rigs and Animations

2015-2019

A variety of original rigs and animations

Model 3 Printing Press Rig

Made as a recreation of an original Printing Press from the late-1800s stored in RIT's Cary Collection

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Flour Sack Rig

For animating a sack of flour, controllers for movement, rotations, spine and deformers

Camera Jib Rig

A camera jib in Maya, keeping the camera steady when moved around

The Lursegarto Rig

An original Zbrush sculpt, baked down to a low poly version, rigged and animated in Maya

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Low-Poly Fox Rig

A low-poly fox, rigged, animated, and game-ready

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Optimization Work

Optimization

Work in preserving high level of detail from high to low-poly models

Tree Stump Face

A 1.5k poly retopologized, game ready version of a 80k poly photoscan

Original scan

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Photoscanned Pikachu

A 1.5k poly retopologized, game ready version of a 80k poly photoscan

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Sculpted Creature

A 2k poly retopologizedversion of a 500k poly original Zbrush sculpt

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Email: cullen.goodwin@gmail.com

Phone: 410-953-9737