Hello!

My name is Sunny I’m a 3D VFX Artist, Product Designer, and User Experience Prototyper bridging the gap between various creative industries and mediums including commercial and feature film Visual Effects, Real-time Interactive Game Development in Unity and Unreal, Mobile iOS and Android platforms, Augmented Virtual and Mixed Reality, and most recently venturing into Generative AI Stable Diffusion utilizing ComfyUI to build modular production workflows implementing the latest cutting edge AI tools to evolve and augment my creative skillset.

I’ve lead teams of artists and technical talent from concept pitch to live production features and services used by over 500 million iOS users globally each day. As much as I enjoy strategizing and planning at a high level, I find myself most productive when I’m in the trenches collaborating between teams of diverse professionals with intuitive attention to detail mindsets and perspectives crafting creative solutions and deploying tools that can help make a positive impact on other people’s lives while delivering unique moments of surprise and delight through concise accessible user experiences.

Experience

► AI Creative Director + UI / UX Design @ Stealth Startup

( Stealth Startup ) ( Winter 2020 – Now : San Jose, California )

Generative 2D/3D AI Prompt Engineering case studies and concept designs
Creating, refining, and automating ComfyUI production process workflows for social media content creation pipelines on platforms including YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and X.
Human Interface and User Experience interactive concept prototyping web and mobile apps

► UI / UX Product Designer + 3D Artist @ Coinflip Studios

( www.meta.com/experiences ) ( Summer 2018 – Spring 2019 : San Francisco, California )

Ninja Legends – Oculus Quest VR Experience (Made with Unity)

Provided guidance and perspective to Founders making key business decisions in regards to the company’s overall direction and grand vision.
Helped lay the groundwork for a new VR game studio. Established an efficient production pipeline between Art and Engineering teams to collaborate through Maya, Unity, and across different VR platforms.
Brainstorming and prototyping a wide range of experimental VR demos targeting Oculus Go, Rift, Quest, and HTC Vive.

► 3D Artist + Lead Product Designer @ Apple

( www.apple.com/ios/maps )* ( Summer 2013 – Summer 2017 : Sunnyvale, California )*

Maps Human Interface 3D Lead, Product Designer – “Next Generation” Maps prototyping

Issued US Patent #62495601 as an Inventor for “Augmented Reality Interface for Facilitating Identification of Arriving Vehicle” Utilizing data from Apple’s mapping vehicles to prototype future augmented mapping experiences.
Collaborated with the Apple Store App Team on AR/VR demos to conceptualize in-store retail experiences.

Lead 3D Artist, UI/UX Designer – Maps sandbox prototyping in Unity

Created a “Maps Sandbox” in Unity as a side project with 2 other colleagues. That Unity demo was one of the first interactive indoor mapping prototypes pitched to Apple Leadership and Maps stakeholders which would become the foundation of the Apple Indoor Maps feature that launched with iOS 11.

Product Designer – Apple Indoor Maps

Issued US Patent #62514547 as an Inventor for “Venues Map Application And System”
Created a wide range of 3D interactive Unity prototypes showcasing potential map features in real world locations like: Apple Infinite Loop Campus, SFO Airport, AT&T Park, Flagship 5th Ave. Apple Store, The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, and Apple Park.

Lead Product Designer – Survey App for iOS

Created and deployed to business owners and contractors around the world to accurately survey indoor spaces utilizing wi-fi and BTLE beacons in order to provide accurate indoor positioning. By dropping ‘points’ on a map you indicate your position within the venue as you walk through. The app measures the radio frequency (RF) signal data and combines it with an iPhone’s sensor data.

Lead 3D Artist, Product Designer – Apple Maps Flyover

Designed and optimized the 3D production pipeline from raw point cloud data ingestion to workflow tools support to enable teams of external Contractors, Maya Generalists, and Cartographers to view and edit map tiles in one integrated app. Provided guidance and feedback to Artists, Engineers, and Leadership regarding project roadmap expectations.

► Lead 3D Modeler + Maya Generalist @ Logan

( www.logan.tv ) ( Spring 2009 – Spring 2012 : Los Angeles, California )

Concept Development, Previs, Modeling, Texturing, Rendering for a wide range of commercial, video game, and feature film Visual Effects projects requiring dynamic modeling approaches and techniques. I started as a Junior Artist and worked my way to Lead 3D Artist.
Clients include: Apple, Nike, Reebok, DC Shoes, Columbia Pictures, Sony, Nintendo, BethesdaSoftworks, PlatinumGames Inc., Activision, Electronic Arts, Japan Railway, Uniqlo, Intel, Exxon/Mobil, Honda, Lexus, Jim Beam, Sears, Kohler, Clinique.

► 3D Maya Generalist + Graphic Designer @ Prologue

( www.prologue.com ) ( Fall 2008 : Venice, California )

Worked on feature film main titles Valkyrie(2009) and Whiteout(2009). Created commercial pitches, 3D animatic previs, motion tests, Visual Effects elements, and various design storyboards.

► 2D Artist + 3D Designer @ Capacity

( www.capacity.tv ) ( Summer 2007 : Culver City, California )

Pipeline and workflow production on various projects for Cartoon Network’s Master Control television series, MSNBC’s network and web rebranding package, and truTV’s The Real Hustle opening titles.

► Co-Founder + Creative Director @ Reactor

( www.simplynoise.com ) ( 2008 – Now : Marina Del Rey, California )

Responsible for leading project direction and execution on startups that have been featured on The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNet, KillerStartups, and LifeHacker.

Education

► Savannah College of Art and Design

( Fall 2004 – 2008 : Savannah, Georgia )

BFA in Visual Effects + Minor in Broadcast Design and Motion Graphics.
Awarded top Artistic Honors Scholarship by the Admission Review Committee for undergraduate portfolio in 2004.

Skills

► AI

( ComfyUI, Cursor, LMStudio, Krita AI, kohya-ss, FluxGym, OneTrainer, Gradio, SwarmUI, A1111, Forge UI )

Open Source tools and techniques ( Stable Diffusion, ControlNet, AnimateDiff, IPAdapter, ReActor FaceID, DWPose, OpenPose, QRMonster, T2I, T2V, I2V, V2V, V2S, T2S )
Generative AI Models ( SD1.5 – 3.5, SDXL, SVD, FLUX.1, Illustrious, Pony, NoobAI, Chroma, HiDream, Qwen-Image, WAN VACE 2.1, WAN Video 2.1/2.2, HunyuanVideo, Hunyuan3D-2.5, MMAudio, ACE-Step, Frame-Pack )
Closed Source tools ( VEO3, Midjourney, Runway, Sora, DALL-E, Kling, Luma, Pika, Hailuo AI, MiniMax, Higgsfield, Seedance )
LLM Prompt Engineering ( ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Meta LLaMA, Copilot, DeepSeek )

► 3D

( Autodesk Maya, 3DS Max, Blender, Houdini, AutoCAD, zBrush, Unity, Unreal )

3D Modeling ( environmental, hard surface, organic, stylized, conceptual )
UV Texturing, Lighting, Rendering
Interactive real-time rapid prototyping and data visualization
Additive manufacturing 3D printing

► 2D

( Figma, Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, Krita, OmniGraffle, Keynote, Resolve )

Designing and delivering great user experiences from top to bottom. Creating product flowcharts and visual mockups including storyboards, wireframes, previs animations, interactive real-time demos, MVP vertical slices, and pitch deck presentations.