I worked on both the design and implementation of the core engine of Nexus/2AD, as well as the implementation and toolsets for each engine including Unity, UE4, and UE5.

The core system of Nexus/2AD is based around generating comprehensive timelines that contain animation, audio, lip-sync and custom user actions that drive movement of a character inside the engine.

Using these timelines and building on top of the animation systems of each engine I worked to create plugins that would send data to the core system to create timelines for characters that then would run animation for said character. This gave me a lot of insight into the workings of Unity and Unreal’s animation systems.

I also built a series of tools that allowed user customization and ease of use with our plugin these included a custom timeline builder as well as a character importer which would take any model and skeleton and help set the character up as a Nexus/2AD character.

With these tools I also worked on a few projects that leveraged generative character AI that would create speech at runtime to plugin to our system, giving a character to the chatbot behind it.