Meta Avatars Hair Development
Responsible for retopo and textures of both assets. Both were part of an executive showcase at Meta Connect 2025.
Some of the 150+ hairs I helped develop in my time at Meta.
Responsible for all aspects of both hairstyles.
Top: Responsible for all aspects
Bottom: Responsible for retopo, UV layout, texturing.
Clean, efficient retopology and UV layouts were needed for the many hairs I developed. Most retopo was manual, and UV layouts needed to follow strict parameters to ensure they worked with our procedural hair strand texturing workflow.
Work-in-progress image showing the duotone masks, color map, and ambient occlusion passes. Color maps were authored in grayscale and colorized via custom gradients to enable a nearly infinite number of color options.
From May 2023 to December 2025, I worked as a contract 3D artist at Meta creating hair and clothing assets for the VR Avatars pipeline.
I helped develop the look of the Avatars 2.0 hair shader and texture style, and was responsible for all texture-related documentation to help give other artists a better understanding of the workflow. I gained a comprehensive end to end understanding of the workflow and pipeline tools, involving taking the hair from initial 2D design through to sculpt, retopo, UV, texture, rig, and implementation stages.
I was also responsible for developing the look of the duotone (two-color hair options) system and maintaining visual parity across a wide array of hairstyles. I took ownership of a few hairs end to end, but the bulk of my work was QA and overseeing external vendors. Twice-weekly critique sessions provided an opportunity to assess how the vendors were developing the assigned assets, and ensure style consistency and quality standards.
Throughout my time at Meta, I gained a deep understanding of developing VR game assets for a custom Unity-based engine, and how to optimize assets to run efficiently across VR, mobile, and desktop platforms.