Sichen Liu
Technical Artist II at Riot Games
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolSichen Liu is a Technical Artist II based in Los Angeles with nine years of experience building tools, shaders, and procedural art for high-profile game studios including Riot Games, Naughty Dog, Treyarch, and Tencent. He blends a programmer’s mindset with artistic craft, delivering Houdini, Substance, Maya, and Unreal solutions that accelerate artist workflows and optimize realtime assets. Notable accomplishments include in-engine compute shader tooling, a fivefold improvement in game agent serialization, and creating bone-based tearable cloth and procedural PBR materials. Comfortable across engine and art pipelines, he has repeatedly translated research-style problems into production-ready systems that improve performance and productivity. Trained in computer science at USC and the University of Washington, he brings both technical rigor and practical studio experience to complex visual challenges.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science (Games), Bachelor's Degree Computer Science (Games) at University of Southern CaliforniaComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Washington
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (21)
unity3d-editor10
unity-editor10
ui-toolkit10
inspector10
extension-methods10
scriptableobject10
unity3d10
runner7
vscode5
vscode-extension5
visual-studio-code4
typescript4
executor4
aseprite3
photoshop3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sichenn/Maumer
Mar 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
sichenn/Kumu
Jan 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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