I worked in the commercial automation field for 8 years, performing various tasks like customer support, hardware maintenance, network maintenance, software implementation and training for commercial automation systems.
Now I'm in the game development market as a Technical Artist, focusing on developing tools to help artists, Shaders, VFX and Lighting Artist.
I already have some experience in the area acquired working in Gixer Entertainment, as an asset implementation team leader, I coordinated to the team, and worked implementing assets to the project, creating scenarios for the map generator, creating shaders, creating tools and creating internal working processes.
Now i’m looking for jobs to continue my growth as professional, i’m looking for a place that i can learn while I working. In the meantime, I continue my studies focus on things there is enjoyable to me, and i´m curious about.
I'm coursing a bachelor degree in Brazilian university UNIP, the course Analyse and System Development, I started in 2019 and maybe I have finished this year (2023), cross finger for that.
In 2009 I study Eletronics in ETEC Aristóteles Ferreira, as a techinal course, and in 2008 I make one year course about Computer Hardware Maintence.
As you can see no Game Dev background here, all the knowledge I get was simple, research and doing by myself, YouTube and google was my teachers, simplest way, of, I want to do it, so I go find a way to do it. I started to focus studies Game Dev in 2018, but before that I already has tried in Game Maker, RPG Maker, and others engines, but in 2018 I took Unity to really focus on, and understand all the engine and the process.
I like coding, but coding some times is to abstract I hard to visualize, Art is all about visualize but I can't draw (I tried, really), so when looking Game Devs jobs, I see that tech art works between these two worlds, like a bridge, understands the art workflow as a programmer perspective, art by numbers. I like that.
Is not boring as creating a system that works in only the abstract world, all your code becomes reality on the screen, that was magic for me. So when I discovered this job, I though to myself “that's it, this is the job”.
Get a job. For real, hire me, i need to pay my bills 😅
Start to learn Unreal, and C++, and maybe, just maybe, start to study Graphic Programming, like, coding an engine, from scratch, this topic is really interesting to me, there's so many things I don't understand and seams like fascinating to understand.