Mert Kaan.

Stylized shading,
built from first principles.

I'm Mert Kaan, a technical artist focused on stylized shading in Unreal Engine 5, from non-photorealistic shadows to real-time outline detection. The sphere on the right runs on the same shading math, so give the light a try.

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Render pass 05 — selected work

A few things I've built.

Render pass 01 — thesis2026

Stylized Shadow Textures

A custom UE5 plugin that reconstructs cross-hatched, non-photorealistic shadows on top of the forward shading renderer — the technical core of my thesis.

  • Unreal Engine 5
  • HLSL / Material Graph
  • C++ (GameInstanceSubsystem)
Render pass 02 — shading2026

Outline Shader

A post-process outline shader combining depth and screen-space approximated normal edge detection.

  • Unreal Engine 5
  • Material Graph
  • C++ / Blueprint (Replication)
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