Max Freitas

Programmer, Technical Artist at Surprise Studios

As Programmer and Technical Artist at Surprise Studios (April 2025 – Present), I’m building a multi-layer party brawler in Unity using C#. I design and develop engine tools to facilitate and optimize level design; I code UI elements and animations; I develop and modify realtime shaders with HLSL and Shader Graph; I set up lighting and post-processing for all levels; I prepare simulations for debris scattering and generate procedural materials with Blender and Substance Designer/Painter; I write and debug scripts for the physics engine and gameplay elements.

3D Artist Intern at Limbitless Solutions

As a 3D Artist Intern (May 2023 – December 2023), I contributed to Serious Games and Accessibility projects that teach children to use their Limbitless upper-limb prosthetics. I established asset pipelines for asset implementation in Unity and Unreal Engine 5, created procedural materials in Substance Designer, hand-painted assets in Substance Painter, and collaborated on shaders and particle effects with Unity and Shader Graph. I also rigged and animated characters in Blender and set up animation controllers in Unity.

Lead 3D Artist at Duciel

Lead 3D Artist on a long-term school project (March 2023 – May 2023). I led a team of three artists, established a pipeline and workflow, modeled and textured characters and props in Blender, and implemented animation controllers in Unity using blend trees to ensure smooth motion.

Technical Artist, Programmer at Surprise Studios

Designed and developed tools in Unity and C# to facilitate and optimize level design; coded UI elements and animations; authored and modified shaders; wrote and debugged shaders for physics and gameplay elements; reorganized the team's Google Drive and defined storage conventions to improve collaboration and efficiency.

Senior Capstone Project at Indie Game Studio / University Capstone

Final project collaboration between 14 senior game development students; led art and asset creation using ZBrush and Maya, collaborated with creative director to sculpt characters and props for a game; authored materials in Substance Designer and Substance Painter; contributed to Unity workflows and shader development.