About

I'm Mert Kaan, a graduate of Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, where my thesis on stylized shadow rendering was supervised by Prof. Dr. Christian Baun and Prof. Dr. Thomas Gabel.

Most of my work sits between engineering and art direction: building the rendering and gameplay systems that let a stylized look actually run in real time, in Unreal Engine 5 and occasionally Godot. I'm aiming toward a technical artist role — leaning technical, in service of the art.