Dana Muise

Technical Artist
San Francisco, Ca

Within Inc. 09 / 2022 – Present
Technical Artist, Supernatural Fitness VR for Meta Quest
● Develop and optimize VR assets and environments for Oculus Quest platform
● Create custom Unity specific tools for designers and artists
● Integrate custom shaders
● troubleshoot performance issues, and optimize asset pipelines for VR.
● Assisted in VR UI/UX design, using Unity UI toolkit.
● Performance profiling and asset optimization to ensure minimum fps for Quest.

Meta Inc. 08/20 – 09/22
Technical Artist, Quest Horizon Worlds VR Design Team
● Using Unity and proprietary tools, I handled all aspects of tech art from producing prototypes, defining processes, writing tools, and sharing knowledge. I provided a variety of creative assets, including 3D and 2D animation, rigging, shaders and programming.
● Supported the integration of physics-based interactions, particle effects, and dynamic lighting in VR environments.
● Conducted asset optimization, profiling, and performance tuning to meet platform requirements for mobile ports of Horizon World.
● Developed custom shaders for unique VR visual effects using Popcorn VF

Facebook Reality Labs 09/18 – 08/21
AR Technical Artist Messenger / Portal Team
● Using Facebook’s Spark AR engine, I worked on many Augmented Reality mobile face filters for the messenger and Portal platforms.
● I created and optimized AR shaders for mobile filters
● Created art assets: 2D sprite animation and 3D assets
● I managed and optimized deployment pipelines, assisted QA team with AB testing

Playstudios 04/17 – 08/18
Technical Artist, Mobile Games
Technical Artist for the creation of Unity based mobile game pipeline, tools, animation, trouble-shooting technical art issues, liaising with the Engineering team. Level Scripting.