Escate

hand-drawn 2D short
Stack of hand-drawn animation paper for Escate

Every frame drawn by hand — pencil on paper, then colored digitally

Late Night Comedy

3D short · 2006
Rigging & Python tools — skater rig, jAutoModel, jAutoRig
Tap Titans 2 3D model turntable
Linear algebraTrigonometryVectors & matricesRiggingTools
Self-taught in 3D math — the foundation under my rigs, tools and XR interactions

Self-taught programmer.
12 game jams — art and code.

Guacamelee!

DrinkBox Studios

Featured by IGN · Destructoid · PlayStation.Blog · PAX

Tap Titans

Game Hive · led teams as core designer, artist & developer · 8 years, startup → studio
0games shipped
0Tap Titans 1 & 2 downloads
Google Play alone
0Game Hive downloads

When the tools didn't exist, I built them

jAnimation Tools
jAnimation Tools
Plugin that super-charges 2D animators in Flash / Animate
Unim / Canim
My own sprite animation format — 150× faster at runtime
Head tracking for Maya — hands-free camera
Arduino programmable IR remote
Controller drawn in conductive ink
LittleBigPlanet plush being sewn
Sculpture & plush

…and I build with my hands

May 2023

Built an AI prototyping
tool inside Unity

GPT-4 in the editor — before Unity AI shipped

Apple Vision Pro · Gang Beasts — one of the first designers on AVP at Unity
Hand-tracking prototype · transforming cards
Meta Horizon Worlds · tools & worlds built entirely in-world · taught a scripting & math school inside it

Interactive responding

As the AI answers, it points at the exact object it's talking about — the moment it says the word

Spatial Prompting

Talk to AI with more than words — point, place, show

Ring prototype worn on a finger
Ring prototype v1
v1
Ring prototype v2
v2
Patent pending

XR ring interface

Designed, prototyped & hand-built

Jay Edry