Jesses Tech Art Folio

Texture Utility Tool

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Tags: Scripted Tool, Texturing, Batch, Optimisation
Software: Python
Project Total Time: 3 weeks

The Problem

Working as a freelancer and lecturer, I’ve found artists are constantly needing to work with a large volume of PBR textures or image files at a time which can waste a lot of time doing repetitive tasks to fix these files. Frequently artits need to change the scale, converting the file type, pack channels, converting normals/ao and create atlases to save on space. This tool can do all those operations and even convert key files such as normal maps and channel packs from Unreal Engine to Unity formats natively.

New Site Update!

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:26:33 +0100

I talk about the new site overhaul into HTML using Hugo!

House Generator Tool

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Tags: Procedural Mesh, HLSL
Software: Houdini, Unreal Engine Project Total Time: 5 weeks total (off and on part time)

The Problem

Building variant houses and large strucures can take a lot of time to setup and even further time to change out pieces or randomise values to make the building standout from those around it. I needed a building tool as I was preparing a large modular kit, the tool needed to be able to handle a adjustable kit and provide a lot of customizability for internal values on shaders.

Sky Island Generator

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Tags: Procedural Mesh
Software: Houdini, Unreal Engine Project Total Time: 2 weeks

The Problem

When working on my latest seasonal shaders, I found it difficult to display how they worked without stress testing them on a variety of topology. Using Legend of Zelda; Tears of the Kingdom as my greatest inspiration, I took to making a sky island generator that can easily procedurally create a variety of islands quickly with seed values.

Shader Musuem

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Tags: Shaders, Seasonal Effects
Software: Unreal Engine
Project Total Time: 2 weeks

The Problem

For teaching purposes I needed to create a level where a bunch of easy to adjust shaders could be found for students to experiment with, primarily for enviroment artists. This evolved into a “museum” space for easier display and walkthrough using game view.

How I Made It

I used Unreal Engines shader node network to build out each shader from various master materials. I went with the winter theme as snow, ice and moss had good masking effects that could be reused on other materials. Ice also posed a complex challenge on how to present more costly and accurate solutions versus a simpler cheaper one. Whilst satisfied I definitely want to redo this project to a much higher standard as blending is very sharp amongst a lot of my noise effects. I also want to dabble more in HLSL to see how I can reduce the amount of repetitive data being called from noises and operations in the graph making it very noisy. Checkout my Development Blog Post

Little Ashton - House Generator

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This post follows the development of a dynamic building generator using Houdini, inspired by Exp33 and Atomfall.

Texture Utility Tool - PyQt

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This post is about a Python based texture utility tool that can rescale, convert file types, pack and split channels of texture maps.

Sky Island Generator

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This post is about the creation of a sky island generator in Houdini inspired by the Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom

Dungeon Delve Project

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This post is about a quick diorama project that sets up modular kits, animated portal effects and post process in Unreal Engine.

Hello there!

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This project is still heavily under construction. This is a default page! Whilst you’re here take a look at my favorite Pokemon of all time (pun intended!)

Robot Dog Project

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This post documents the retoplogy, rigging, skinning and shader work for creating a game ready animated robot dog.

Outsource Asset Validator for UE

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This post documents the creation of a asset manager that bakes, validates and imports outsourced meshes with shaders setup into Unreal Engine.

Winter Shader Musuem

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This project showcases a variety of winter shaders for Unreal Engine 5.

PCG Scatter Tool Breakdown

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This post documents building a PCG scattering tool for foliage and repetitive assets.

Maxscript May Development Journal

Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This post follows the development of various utility scripts using the Maxscript language during May 2025.

Visual Mesh Debugger

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:58:34 +0100

This post goes through the development of a visual debugging tool using Python for inspecting static meshes in real-time in Unreal Engine.

Batch Mesh Renamer