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Laser Dazzle
Ground-sourced green laser tracking an aircraft on approach, escalating until it floods the whole field of view — a cockpit-illumination training scenario.
Canada
Océane
Wang
3D Environment & VFX Artist
4.5 years building high-fidelity environments and real-time visual effects in Unreal Engine 5 and Niagara for the simulation industry at CAE Inc. — with a background in cinema, direction and photography.
00 — Showreel
Demo Reel
Fifty seconds of real-time Niagara work, straight out of engine.
01 — Selected Work
Real-time VFX
Niagara systems built for CAE’s Prodigy image generator — everything below runs in engine, in real time, inside a fixed frame budget.
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Afterburner
Fighter exhaust plume on the runway — banded orange core grading out to violet, with the plume length driven by throttle.
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Engine Fire & Smoke
Full incident lifecycle on the apron — ignition, a rising black column, burnout, then the plume shearing off and dissipating downwind.
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Cooling Tower Plume
Large volumetric steam column over a terminal, shown at dusk and in full daylight — the same system reading correctly under both lighting setups.
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Explosion — Scale Sweep
One explosion system stepped through scale 1 to 10 over a terminal environment — a single emitter covering everything from a small burst to a detonation that fills the sky.
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Touchdown Tire Smoke
Main-gear contact on the runway — a sharp puff smeared into a streak along the roll-out, then thinning to nothing.
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Engine Smoke
Dense dark smoke rising from a stand beside the jetways, holding shape close to source and breaking up as it climbs.
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Fuel Spray
Ground-hugging fuel vapour drifting across the apron, carried through a full day-to-night cycle to check it under every lighting condition.
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Rotor Recirculation
Downwash dust ring on hard standing — the toroidal recirculation pattern a rotor throws up, tested across four light levels.
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Rotor Sparks
Corona of sparks thrown off the rotor disc, captured live in the editor viewport with the emitter running.
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Laser Dot
Targeting dot tracking across apron and jetway geometry, holding contact and scale as it crosses surfaces at different angles.
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Impact Set
Four impact systems back to back on a test grid — explosion debris, bullet impact on sand, on grass, and terrain muzzle flash.
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Bullet Impact
The same impact system dropped into a live airfield scene, throwing dirt clods that arc and settle against real ground textures.
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Tracers
Tracer rounds crossing a coastal airfield, sized to stay readable from altitude without blowing out at close range.
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Illumination Flare
Descending flare over a blacked-out airfield, throwing moving light across the ground as it falls.
02 — Environment & Asset Art
Model Library
Production models built across five simulation libraries — modelled, unwrapped and textured to a shared spec so they drop straight into a scene.
Five production libraries, modelled and textured to a shared spec.
03 — Shipped
In Production
Two products the work went into. Both videos are published by the companies themselves — the environments and assets on screen are the kind I built and maintained.
CAE Prodigy Image Generator
CAE’s game-engine visual system for flight simulation. I worked on it primarily as a VFX artist — the Niagara systems in Real-time VFX above are built for this image generator — and earlier on 3D environment and asset modelling.
Velocity 5D
A GIS-driven system for producing large-scale digital-twin environments. I worked on 3D modelling — buildings, vehicles, vegetation and environment props for the asset library.
04 — Earlier Studies
Student Work
Where the environment work started — a real-time interior built in Unreal, plus character and modeling studies.
Duchess’ Private Library
A real-time reconstruction of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar — modular shelving, sculpted busts and a warm practical-light setup, walked through in a single 30-second move.
Slavocalyp
Personal project taken from scratch to a fully rendered real-time character. Concept by Aleksandr Nikonov.
Littlegirl
Stylised character study — proportion, silhouette and a clean hand-painted texture pass.
Duchess’ Private Library — Still
Beauty still from the environment above, down the main axis of the reading room.
05 — Direction & Camera
Film
Directed, shot and edited. A cinema background that feeds the framing and lighting in the 3D work.
06 — What I do
Capabilities
Environment Art
Modular, high-precision environments for real-time engines — modeling, PBR texturing, look-dev and lighting, held to polygon budgets across every LOD tier.
Real-time VFX
Niagara systems for simulation and games — smoke, fire, explosions, impacts, contrails and afterburners, with custom Blueprint-driven particle logic and collision.
Pipeline & Production
Sprint-based production with QA checkpoints, shared asset and material libraries, and the version control and tracking a mid-size art team runs on.
Film & Content
End-to-end content production — directing, shooting, editing, photography and graphic design, plus social and campaign management.
07 — About
About
I’m a 3D Environment & VFX Artist with 4.5 years in the simulation industry. At CAE Inc. I spent two and a half years building high-precision modular environments, then moved onto visual effects — authoring 40+ categories of Niagara systems for smoke, fire, explosions, impacts, contrails and afterburners, each one held to a strict performance budget.
The work runs the full pipeline: Blueprint-driven particle logic, collision and physics debugging, LOD and polygon budgets across large-scale scenes, a shared VFX texture and material library for the team, and a Civil GIS pass blending multi-resolution satellite imagery across 39 ICAO airport sites. Every sprint shipped on time.
I came to 3D through cinema — a Master’s in Cinema in Montreal, then dedicated 3D training, after several years directing, shooting and editing commercial work. That mix is the point: I frame and light a 3D environment the way I’d frame and light a shot.