Alex Turbyfield

About Alex Turbyfield

Experienced Technical Artist with a demonstrated history of working in the entertainment industry. Strong arts and design professional skilled in Unity, Adobe Photoshop, C#, Maya, and Animation.

Experience

1. Senior Technical Artist

   Niantic, Inc

   Oct 2021 — Present · Bellevue, WA, US

   Pokémon GOTechnical Lead for the recent update to catch encounters which creates procedurally generated environments based on biome data for the location of the player. I designed and wrote much of the client logic which interfaces with server data to pull location data, and map it to scriptable object configuration files. I also designed and wrote the procedural spawn system to place props while preserving the ability to art direct scenes. Other notable contributions: Primary technical artist for GO Fest 2023, the Shaymin Mythical Encounter, Elite Raids, and Shadow Raids. Feature Technical Lead experience. Much of my job includes client work for feature development, shader programming, VFX work, addressables management, research into new features, Pipeline tools, UI building, and preparing 3D characters and assets. Working alongside The Pokémon Company to make sure that work aligns with the brand is a top priority for this role.

Education

• The University of Georgia

  MFA, Dramatic Media, Animation

  2010 — 2013