Xingyu Lei
Senior Technical Artist at PlayStation
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolXingyu Lei is a Senior Technical Artist based in San Diego with nine years of experience blending creative art direction and deep technical tooling for AAA games and cinematic VFX. At PlayStation he has driven engine optimization, devkit configuration, and a cross-department tool ecosystem that supported high-profile titles like The Last of Us: Part I, while earlier roles at Blur Studio delivered hundreds of cloth and hair-sim shots and bespoke CFX pipelines. He pairs academic research—developing procedural animation systems and ML-driven emotion integration at Purdue—with hands-on production rigging, mocap retargeting, and pipeline automation. A self-motivated problem solver and avid blogger, he makes technical art accessible through tools and writing, helping teams ship higher-quality assets faster.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Sichuan UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Purdue University
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Github Skills (26)
json-editor10
pyside10
maya10
shim9
python9
pyqt9
unreal9
line-counter8
unreal-engine-58
qt8
stylesheets7
json7
visualization7
syntax-highlighting7
curve6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
leixingyu/mayaAsciiViewer
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Maya Ascii (.ma) preview and visualization tool
Contributions:2 releases, 30 commits, 12 pushes in 9 months
visualization
leixingyu/unrealScriptEditor
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Unreal Engine equivalent Maya Python Script Editor
Contributions:1 release, 14 commits, 5 PRs in 6 months
pythonunrealue5unreal-engineunreal-python
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