Oskar Świerad

CD Projekt RED – Engineering Manager, Tech Art

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty | The Witcher (UE5)

Manager of 10 technical artists.

Product Owner of a cross-disciplinary agile team.

We're responsible for texturing workflows, master shaders, post FX, for AAA open-world games.

CD Projekt RED – Senior Technical Artist

Cyberpunk 2077 (PC, Playstation, Xbox)

Helped develop a proprietary, multilayered texturing system based on Substance. Programmed tools for material library management.

Designed and implemented vehicle destruction pipeline.

Prepared shaders for environment art, gameplay-driven effects.

Implemented procedural, point cloud-based VFX, e.g. all braindance mode visuals.

Optimized & debugged shaders in PIX.

Tate Multimedia – Environment Artist

Steel Rats (PC, Playstation, Xbox)

Designed and modelled modular environment sets.

Created procedural textures in Substance Designer.

Technical art duties, optimization, shaders.

3DE – Houdini Render Artist

Created and rendered environments in Houdini.

Developed shaders, procedural generation solutions.

Programmed standalone tools in Python.

Tomorrow – Senior 3D Artist

Lead a team of 4 artists on Oculus VR projects.

Designed, modelled and textured PBR environments.

Programmed shaders in HLSL.

QubicGames – Environment Artist, Lead LD

Worked on level art, design and lighting.

Programmed a level design toolkit (Blender plugin).

Helped to optimise for handhelds.

Shipped 6 console games in total.