Rendering & shaders
Anisotropic hair, glass, PBR pipelines, skin, retina, cloth, vegetation, heat haze and stylised character rendering.
Lead Technical Artist / Rendering Engineer
Real-time rendering for games, VR, XR and production teams.
Simon Evans helps art and engineering teams ship better-looking, better-performing real-time experiences: shader systems, VFX pipelines, production tooling, optimisation and hands-on technical art delivery.
Expertise
Practical technical art across rendering, content pipelines and performance.
VFX systems
VFX system prototyping and implementation, cinematic transitions, card burn-up effects, x-ray effects and gameplay feedback.
Production tooling
DCC scripts, batch processing, UV blending, lightmap workflows, animation baking and asset conditioning systems.
XR performance
Profiling, code optimisation, stereo rendering constraints, PSN multiplayer systems and high-fidelity VR simulation work.
Selected work
Shipped work across games, VR, XR and real-time simulation.
RS3
RuneScape (RS3)
Rendering systems, shader architecture, VFX systems and production pipeline support.
- Prototyped and implemented the new VFX system in RuneScape.
- Implemented anisotropic hair shaders, glass effects and PBR shader pipeline contributions.
- Supported avatar rework, asset conditioning, DCC tooling and large-scale batch processing.
Chronicle: RuneScape Legends
Stylised rendering, Unity tooling and shader engineering for a distinctive card-battler world.
- Created stylised character and terrain shaders, including card and special-effect materials.
- Implemented heat haze and card burn-up effects.
- Built Unity tools for UV blending, light and shadow map baking, profiling and content workflows.
Korix (PSVR)
VR engineering, multiplayer systems and complete art pipeline ownership.
- Owned all building and unit modelling, shaders, lighting and VFX.
- Integrated PSN multiplayer, lobbies, achievements and voice chat.
- Produced intro sequences, cutscenes, trailers, profiling and code optimisation.
Bodycount
Ego toolset pipelines, art-facing tools, shader R&D and technical art leadership.
- Designed and implemented pipelines, object exporters, validation tools and Maxscript libraries for the Ego asset pipeline.
- Developed HLSL shaders for a deferred renderer and MetaSL viewport shaders for 3ds Max.
- Led cross-studio art team support, tools beta testing, documentation and mentoring for technical artists.
Conflict Desert Storm Series
VFX, lighting, physics simulation, environment art and workflow tooling.
- Delivered effects, lighting and physics simulation workflows.
- Created environment and prop modelling, texturing and animation baking support.
- Built in-house tools to improve authoring workflows.
F44
Classified: France '44
Lighting optimisation, environment shaders, vegetation rendering and art team support.
- Optimised lighting and shadow performance across environments.
- Improved environment shaders and vegetation LOD setup for models and shaders.
- Provided technical art best-practice guidance to production teams.
FundamentalXR
Medical simulation, VR rendering and realism-focused shader research.
- Developed realistic skin, eye, retina and cloth shaders for surgical simulation.
- Created x-ray transition and stereo microscope visualisation effects.
- Balanced visual fidelity with VR performance constraints.
Unity Labs Demo - GDC 2015
Cutting-edge skin shading for a public real-time rendering showcase.
- Developed the scientist character skin shader featured during the Unity 5 reveal demo.
- Contributed high-end character rendering work to a globally visible engine presentation.
Nat Geo TV Kinect
Kinect R&D, real-time shader systems, world-editor pipelines and Xbox 360 deployment tooling.
- Researched Kinect-driven real-time effects using particle clouds generated from depth data.
- Built 3ds Max world-editor pipelines with real-time game shader previews using Nitrous and Mental Ray MetaSL.
- Collaborated with tools and engine teams on validation tools, exporters and rapid deployment to Xbox 360 dev kits.
Career highlights
From live franchise production to specialist immersive simulation.
Architected next-generation VFX systems for RuneScape.
Contributed to PBR pipelines, avatar rendering and scalable asset workflows.
Delivered PlayStation VR multiplayer features alongside full visual ownership.
Created shaders showcased during Unity's GDC 2015 reveal.
Applied advanced real-time rendering to high-fidelity medical XR training.
But wait, there's more
Blockchain platforms, backend APIs and web-based production systems.
Alongside games and technical art, Simon has led Laravel, GraphQL, neo4j, Vue, MySQL and integration-heavy platform work for blockchain, education, asset management and events software.