Hi, I'm Siddhant Bal!

3D Technical Artist with 6+ years of experience specializing in 3D look dev, procedural texturing, and lighting for animation and XR experiences. Passionate about bridging art, 3D math, and technology to create immersive visuals for interactive environments. Also, I love storytelling, reading manga, and solving puzzles (especially Kakuro)!

With 4+ years of work experience in the 3D industry, I got the opportunity to work on some amazing projects.

Demo Reel:

"Immersion in Georges Seurat’s Painting “La Grande Jatte” with VR: A study for Art Appreciation"

Link to Thesis

My Graduate Research Thesis, wherein a user's understanding of George Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" was studied in the VR environments: a 3D reproduction of the painting and a 3D Museum.
Tools: Autodesk Maya, Adobe Substance Painter 3D, Unity 3D, Adobe Photoshop, Krita

Industry Projects (BYJU's)

Tools: Autodesk Maya, Adobe Substance Painter 3D, Unreal Engine 4.26 - 5.0.2, Adobe Photoshop, Krita, Thinkbox Deadline

3-Day Challenge Projects

With Purdue, I got the opportunity to work on a few personal projects of my own, with the challenge being a deadline period of as "3 days".
Tools: Autodesk Maya, Adobe Substance Painter 3D, Krita, Unreal Engine 5.0.2

Graphics Programming Projects

The following are the Graphics Programming projects I worked on.
Tools: OpenGL, GLSL and C++.

Extras

Here are some of my ongoing project work, with my character focus being Mathilda (Modelled and rigged by Leon Li-Aun Sooi and Xiong Lin). I have performed the UV mapping, texturing, look development and lighting on the model (along with nhair shading).
Tools: Autodesk Maya, Adobe Substance Painter 3D, Krita

Having completed my undergraduate studies at College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, I'm currently enrolled in the Computer Graphics Technology(CGT) Graduate Program at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.