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Hi there! I’m Jonathan Tu, a 3D artist focused on character animation for games and immersive media. I lead and contribute to pipeline development, asset creation, rigging, and animation, delivering polished visuals in Unity and Unreal while collaborating closely with cross-disciplinary teams to define visual style and technical direction.…

Jonathan Tu

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Hi there! I’m Jonathan Tu, a 3D artist focused on character animation for games and immersive media. I lead and contribute to pipeline development, asset creation, rigging, and animation, delivering polished visuals in Unity and Unreal while collaborating closely with cross-disciplinary teams to define visual style and technical direction.…

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Hi there! I’m Jonathan Tu, a 3D artist focused on character animation for games and immersive media. I lead and contribute to pipeline development, asset creation, rigging, and animation, delivering polished visuals in Unity and Unreal while collaborating closely with cross-disciplinary teams to define visual style and technical direction.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

Language

English

Fluent

Chinese

Fluent

Work Experience

Lead 3D Artist at Low Poly Mouse Game

December 1, 2025 - December 1, 2025

Led a 12-person 3D art pipeline team, directing visual style and technical execution across models, rigs, character animations, shaders, and asset import. Created and optimized 3D models, rigs, and animations in Maya; textured assets in Substance Painter, developed a custom pixelized shader, and integrated them into Unity. Shipped a multiplayer Steam game, achieving 10,376 library additions and 444 downloads/plays.

3D Artist at Temporal Dissonance AR Composition Exhibition

June 1, 2025 - June 1, 2025

Selected to participate in the exhibition as Top 10% senior students, featuring digital and mixed-media works. Gathered and posed 3D models, captured original photographs, and composed all elements with my photography to create integrated visual scenes. Exhibited the final work at Sage Dean’s Gallery (Troy, NY) and featured across RPI campus platforms, attracting 300+ viewers.

3D Artist at Temporal Dissonance – Solo Short Film

September 30, 2024 - December 30, 2024

Produced a 1-minute cinematic short using Unreal Engine Cinematics, completing the full project 25% faster than planned; designed the storyboard, lighting, and camera composition from scratch; created and customized MetaHuman characters, including rigging, animation setup, and motion capture retargeting; delivered a fully rendered cinematic showcasing environment contrast, character performance, and real-time rendering workflows.

MoCap Project - Technical Artist at MoCap Project

July 31, 2022 - July 31, 2022

Contributed to the successful completion of the artist’s final project with Professor Silvia Ruzanka, strengthening motion capture pipeline development and technical animation skills. Recorded motion capture data and cleaned raw datasets, retargeted motion data to a hand model in Houdini and Unreal Engine, optimizing for integration and real-time performance.