--- Tech Art — Helena Bjeletich

Tech Art

Bridging art and technology through real-time graphics, shaders, and procedural systems.

Gradient Mapping

Gradient Mapping Shader

Two gradient mapping shader systems in Unity Shader Graph — one precision 3-color for animation, one flexible 6-color for general stylized effects.

Shader DevelopmentUnityVFXAnimation PipelineTechnical Art
Profile

Profile Lathe

A Unity editor tool that revolves a hand-drawn profile curve into a watertight mesh, with live preview, procedural normal-map relief, and mesh/material/prefab export.

UnityC#Editor ToolingProcedural Mesh GenerationTechnical Art
Image

Image Relief

A Unity editor tool that reads pixel brightness from any image, displaces a grid mesh into a 3D relief panel, bakes a Sobel-derived normal map, and exports mesh, material, and prefab in one click.

UnityC#Editor ToolingProcedural Mesh GenerationImage Processing
Phase-Driven

Phase-Driven Theming

A phase-driven theming system for Plot Twist — animated background and decorative frame shaders recolor the whole scene per story act, driven by a ScriptableObject config and custom editor tooling.

Shader DevelopmentUnityShader GraphEditor ToolingTechnical Art
Sphereize

Sphereize Tool

An Editor Utility Widget in Unreal Engine that deforms selected static mesh assets into a spherical shape using Blueprint scripting.

Shader DevelopmentVFXUnreal EngineTechnical Art
Procedural

Procedural Landscape

A procedural landscape pipeline from terrain generation in Gaea to final implementation in Unreal Engine.

Unreal EngineGaeaProcedural GenerationMaterial SystemsTechnical Art
Procedural Brick

Procedural Brick Wall

A procedural brick wall generator created in Unreal Engine using Blueprints and per-instance random material variation.

Unreal Engine3DProcedural GenerationTechnical ArtTools
Custom Toon

Custom Toon Shader

A stylized toon shader with customizable lighting, rim effects, and specular highlights built in Unity's Shader Graph.

Shader DevelopmentUnityNPR RenderingTechnical Art