{"id":111,"date":"2020-10-23T16:37:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T20:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b20\/?p=111"},"modified":"2020-10-23T16:37:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T20:37:50","slug":"dylan-valev-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b20\/davalev\/dylan-valev-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Valev Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hey there! My name’s Dylan Valev and I\u2019m currently a junior studying Interactive Media and Game Development with a Technical Art Concentration. Hailing from New York, I am driven by my strong passion for game development and try to involve myself in as many projects as possible, often filling in the roles as programmer and designer. I\u2019ve self-published a small mobile game called Paper Protector <\/em>on Google Play and a time travelling puzzle game called Sliptime Sleuth<\/em> on Steam. Additionally, I am very involved in the local game development community, spearheading the effort in the creation of WPI’s International Game Developers Association chapter, where I currently serve as its president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing up as a first generation kid, I was often left to my own faculties to entertain myself, since I didn\u2019t know how to speak the language. It didn\u2019t take much time for clover-picking in backyard cookouts to become fetch quests for my make-believe residents in overgrown grass, seeding the roots for a passion in storytelling and role playing that would stick with me for my entire life. It wasn\u2019t until entering college however that I really started my journey as an artist. Inspired by Heartmachine\u2019s Hyper Light Drifter<\/em> and Chucklefish\u2019s Starbound<\/em>, I decided to pursue game development as a very last minute (and admittedly risky) decision! Initially I came in with a tech concentration, but quickly found 3D art to be much more fulfilling. Since then, I\u2019ve taken many 3D art classes for 3D animation, motion capture, rigging, and 3D modeling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this course, I wish to improve my skills in the modelling (including texturing and UV mapping) aspects of the pipeline. I find myself often halted in my prototyping when faced with implementing such things, so I hope this class will overall improve my skills as a generalist and independent developer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside of school I\u2019ve taken an interest in making VFX in Unity\u2019s particle system and shader graph. Additionally, I enjoy writing, and have had some of my work published in the GDC Vault!<\/p>\n\n\n\n


You can find my work at davalev.dev<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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really starting to get into VFX now, so I tried something a little more ambitious for my first #VFXFriday<\/a> !#madewithunity<\/a> #gamedev<\/a> #Unity<\/a> #indiedev<\/a> #VFX<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/3R1fiyVoDF<\/a><\/p>— Dylan Valev (@davalev) August 7, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>