WaveXR - Justin Bieber and Teflon Sega virtual concerts

Year: 2020-2022

Platforms: virtual concert - PC, broadcast

Justin Bieber

• primary technical liaison with art team

• graphics optimizations - getting all worlds to 60fps+ and making sure they stayed performant even with multiple art teams adding assets under deadline pressure

• graphics - researched render pipeline (HDRP) in depth, to make the best possible tech art decisions. identified rendering errors in reflections and lightmap baking and found fixes and workarounds.

• leadership and education - created wiki and videos for art team

• technical art direction - chose and evaluated all 3rd party tools for performance and aesthetics: atmosphere, volumetric clouds, lightning, vegetation, etc.

Teflon Sega

• graphics programming - created custom render features and effects for HDRP

chasm volumetrics setup and tweaked 3rd party volumetric cloud system

custom cloud shader - light response test

cloud shader in final concert