Mert Kaan.

Render pass 00 — scene setup

Stylized shading,
built from first principles.

Mert Kaan — a technical artist bridging rendering engineering and stylized art direction, with a thesis on non-photorealistic shadow reconstruction in Unreal Engine 5.

See the workdrag the light →

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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 — netcode2025

Crossplay Multiplayer Architecture

Steam, Meta Quest, and Google Play Games players in one lobby, unified through Epic Online Services as the identity and networking backbone.

  • Unreal Engine 5.5
  • Epic Online Services (EOS)
  • OSSv1 / OSSv2
Render pass 03 — shading2026

Outline Shader

A post-process outline shader driven by depth and normal edge detection.

  • Unreal Engine 5
  • Material Graph
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