AMY LIU

Autodesk Maya

  • Unity Hiverunner

    August 30, 2025 - September 18, 2025

    In a voxel-based world, play an ant who must balance risk vs. reward to escape from the honey-filled bee hive.
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    # Year2025 # game development # voxels # particle system # physically-based # game physics # shading # rendering # render pass # cg toolbox functions # algorithm implementation
    tech stack
    Unity Game Engine C# Compute Shaders Autodesk Maya

  • MayaRubiks

    December 20, 2023 - January 10, 2024

    A Maya plug-in to procedurally solve a Rubik's Cube using the Kociemba algorithm within the 3D viewport.
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    # Year2024 # Year2023 # plugin # procedural # 3D-modeling
    tech stack
    MayaPy Autodesk Maya Python

  • MoBi-LE

    May 10, 2023 - August 01, 2023

    A study on human-computer interaction through a 3D-printed robot "companion" for grade school children.
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    # Year2023 # product design # human computer interaction # 3D-printing # 3D-modeling # hardware
    tech stack
    UltiMaker Cura Raspberry Pi Autodesk Maya React

  • Mini Maya in C++

    March 01, 2023 - March 17, 2023

    A mesh-editor GUI that performs Catmull-Clark subdivision on input OBJ files, binds model skeletons for transformation, and exports out to USD.
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    school
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    # Year2023 # 3D-modeling # rasterization # graphical user interface
    tech stack
    Autodesk Maya GLSL C++ QT OpenGL OpenUSD

  • Synthetic Face Generation

    May 20, 2022 - August 05, 2022

    A National Science Foundation-funded research project to procedurally generate a dataset of photo-realistic virtual human faces.
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    # Year2022 # digital humans # physically-based # photorealism # topology # rendering # lighting # light stage # datasets # computer vision
    tech stack
    Autodesk Maya SideFX Houdini Python

  • Sopoćani 3D Reconstruction

    January 07, 2022 - December 20, 2022

    An important collaboration between digitalization and art history -- using modern computer shading and rendering techniques to reconstruct lost artifacts and murals of Medieval Serbia.
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    # Year2022 # art history # 3D-reconstruction # rasterization # shading # lighting # 3D-modeling
    tech stack
    Adobe Creative Cloud Autodesk Maya