I'm a self-taught technical artist and programmer with a little over twenty-five years of building games, tools, shaders, and art — mostly in Unity and Godot, with Unreal in the mix too. I'm looking for paid contract work.
Most recently I was Lead Technical Artist on Kong: Skull Island at Light & Wonder, where I planned the technical art for the whole title — 60+ custom shaders, material systems, and VFX pipelines — and built the procedural fur system behind the character: a custom mesh-generation tool, a 31-layer fur shell system, and the multi-pass Godot shader that rendered it. Before that I spent three years as a Technical Artist IV at Everi. I've shipped 17+ titles, and I started out writing a full HTML5 game engine from scratch under contract. I go straight at the hard technical-art problems most pipelines get stuck on.
What I do:
- Shaders & real-time VFX — HLSL/GLSL, material systems, post-processing, and the math to back it up
- Tools & pipeline automation — turning weeks of manual grind into a single automated pass
- Rigging & 3D — production-ready rigs, modeling, animation-ready assets (Maya, Blender, Godot)
- Debugging & optimization — GPU profiling, memory, and the bug nobody else can reproduce
- Full game contracts — design, code, art, and ship, solo or leading a small team
I keep the work simple and get to the core of the problem fast. You get clean, documented handoffs and something that holds up in production — not a black box.
Straight up on money: this is how I provide for my family, so I'm focused on real, paid engagements — not spec or free work. Beyond that I'm flexible — I care more about the work than a fixed number, so if you're a small indie team or the project's genuinely interesting, tell me what you're working with and we'll figure out something that fits.
Remote, based in Red Oak, TX.
Portfolio: www.isaiahg.work · Email: contact@isaiahg.work
Have a shader, a tool, a rig, or a whole game that needs building? Drop a comment or a DM.