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Igor Pontes
Mid-level VFX/Game Artist specializing in real-time effects and shaders
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Generalist game artist/VFX creator working in a small indie studio, with hands-on experience shipping mobile/VR-friendly real-time effects in Unity (e.g., a bonfire built with Shader Graph plus Shuriken particles). Strong focus on performance tradeoffs for mobile—draw calls, memory, texture atlasing/material reuse—and uses profiling/testing to choose the right approach (shader vs flipbook vs particles).
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Key Strengths
- Mobile VFX performance optimization (draw calls, memory, texture atlases, material reuse)
- Pragmatic test-and-profile approach to choosing VFX techniques (shader vs flipbook vs particles)
- Unity real-time VFX creation (Shader Graph + particle systems) with mobile constraints awareness
- Cross-functional generalist mindset from small indie studio environment
- Effective use of AI tools to accelerate scripting and fill knowledge gaps
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