Ben Cloward
Lead Technical Artist at Industrial Light & Magic
Orem, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Cloward is a Lead Technical Artist with over 25 years in games, specializing in shader development, artist tooling, and real-time performance optimization across engines like Unreal, Frostbite, and Unity. He has progressed from animator and pipeline tool creator to senior roles at BioWare and Unity, where he helped shape Shader Graph usability and searchability as a key contributor to the Unity Graphics repo. Ben combines hands-on shader engineering with mentoring—creating tutorials and demo content on his YouTube channel to spread best practices to the art community. Now at Industrial Light & Magic, he applies interactive rendering and material expertise to high-profile projects while continuing to improve artist workflows. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges artists and engineers, with a knack for making complex rendering features discoverable and usable.
5 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Design, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Design at Brigham Young University
Spanish
Github Skills (8)
csharp10
shadergraph10
dotnet-core10
unity3d10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
api-design7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
Unity-Technologies/Graphics
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Unity Graphics - Including Scriptable Render Pipeline
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:214 reviews, 140 commits, 153 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to improving the user experience within the Unity ShaderGraph tool. Their work included adding synonyms to shader graph node names for improved searchability, fixing bugs related to node creation, and renaming and modifying existing nodes. The user also added and modified node outputs, ensuring that users can more easily find and utilize the nodes.
graphic
Oculus-VR/Unity-Graphics
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
Unity Graphics - Including Scriptable Render Pipeline
Contributions:10 commits in 1 month
graphic
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