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Daniel I.

Technical Director | Houdini/Unity/Unreal | Tools, Shaders & Pipeline

What I do: • Procedural terrain, roads, cities, and scattering: HDAs, VEX, C#, Houdini Engine for Unity and Unreal • Custom shaders and render features: HLSL, Unity URP/HDRP, Unreal materials • Pipeline and tool development: Python, C#, Unity editor tooling • Performance: streaming, LODs, and optimization for PC and mobile • 3D generalist: modeling, texturing, shading, FX. Some of my projects: • Procedural city and terrain generation for an open-world game studio: road networks with junction solving, lanes, parking and sidewalks, plus heightfield terrain, delivered into Unity through Houdini Engine • Multiple large-scale 3D environments for simulation training in Unity • Houdini and Maya pipeline tools used daily by 60+ artists • 30+ km real-world terrains for Unreal • Author of DanTools: Houdini HDAs for real-world terrain (DEM, satellite, OSM), erosion, road networks, and adaptive meshing • And many more. Send me your scope, and I’ll tell you what’s realistic.

🇦🇱Tirane, Albania$80/hr100% JSS5.00 (13)Since May 2021

Earnings and projects

MRR
$137

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#126,245 / 412k
🇦🇱Country#290 / 1,029
Revenue, last 30 days
$0

Last 6 months: $819

Total earnings
$181k

Billed in all: $187k

World#17,845 / 412k
🇦🇱Country#25 / 1,029
Per project
$16k

$410 in the last 6 months

World#8,068 / 412k
🇦🇱Country#11 / 1,029
Projects, last 6 months
2
100% fixed0% hourly
World#88,921 / 412k
🇦🇱Country#183 / 1,029
Projects in all
11

Across 16 contracts

63% fixed37% hourly
World#192,419 / 412k
🇦🇱Country#418 / 1,029

Earnings, last 30 days

$187kNothing earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$184k$186k$188k$190kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Dotted: longer than usual between two readings. Hatched: over two weeks without one.

Skill rankings: Top 20% in Substance Designer

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