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SHIPPED
Call of Duty - MW3
Led the Character and Weapons Tech Art teams through a full Call of Duty cycle, scaling the discipline through internal hiring and offshore management.
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Hi, I'm Adrian Melian. I've spent 14 years building the technical backbone of AAA game art teams, and I now architect the pipelines, tools, and teams that ship them. I joined Sledgehammer Games as a Senior Technical Artist on Vanguard and led the Character and Weapons Tech Art teams through Modern Warfare III, then moved to Camouflaj as an Expert Technical Artist. Before Sledgehammer I built character and animation pipelines at Meta, Double Fine, Ubisoft, and NCSoft.
In 2026 I founded FabricatorStudio and shipped a complete Maya to Unreal character pipeline as a public product, documentation and issue tracker included. I lead by owning outcomes: the shipped result, the team that grows around it, and the technical bets that pay off.
Away from the screen I paint, draw from life, and build physical things. See the gallery →
FabricatorStudio
FabricatorStudio
Human+AI Studio Toolset
Built for solo developers and small teams. Free Maya-to-Unreal pipeline tools. Rigging, skinning, animation, export, and more. With an AI Technical Artist built in.
- Drag-and-drop modular rigging. Build, unbuild, iterate.
- AutoSkin: production-ready weights in minutes, not days.
- One-click FBX export wired for Unreal, batch-ready.
Armature
Armature
Artist+AI Rigging. You drive.
A standalone rigging and skinning app, no Maya licence needed. A developer takes a mesh to a working rig in minutes; a character artist pushes that same rig to production level. Free for personal work and small studios.
- Drop a mesh, place a skeleton from templates or modules, and skin it locally.
- Two skinning engines: one solves in seconds on any machine, the AI one runs on your GPU.
- Exports one USD carrying mesh, skeleton, weights and control rig build data.
Selected Work
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SHIPPED
Call of Duty - Vanguard
The first of two Call of Duty titles shipped at Sledgehammer, and the one where a modular weapons rigging solution went from architecture to team-wide adoption.
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IN DEVELOPMENT
Michael: the Archangel (Unreal)
A solo Unreal project in development. Every character runs the same rig-binding and export contract the FabricatorStudio toolset ships.
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SHIPPED
South Park - Fractured But Whole
Built the pipeline and 2D flipbook animation tools behind the game's distinctive look, rigging hybrid 2D and 3D characters.
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SHIPPED
Broken Age
Authored the flipbook animation system behind every character in the game, a 2D-on-3D hybrid built to carry a flagship title on a small team.
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01
2021
Meta Horizon Worlds
Meta
Technical Artist
02
WIP
Krazy Kaiju! (Unreal)
Personal Project
Solo developer
03
2019
Arizona Sunshine: Contagion Z
Nomadic VR
Technical Artist
04
2015
Massive Chalice
Double Fine Productions
Technical Artist
05
2014
Costume Quest 2
Double Fine Productions
Technical Artist
06
2013
My Alien Buddy. DLC for Playroom (PS4)
Double Fine Productions
Technical Artist
07
2012
Happy Action Theater
Double Fine Productions
Technical Artist
08
2012
Amnesia Fortnight - 2012
Double Fine Productions
Technical Artist
02
WIP
Krazy Kaiju! (Unreal)
Personal Project
Solo developer
03
2019
Arizona Sunshine: Contagion Z
Nomadic VR
Technical Artist
04
2015
Massive Chalice
Double Fine Productions
Technical Artist
05
2014
Costume Quest 2
Double Fine Productions
Technical Artist
06
2013
My Alien Buddy. DLC for Playroom (PS4)
Double Fine Productions
Technical Artist
07
2012
Happy Action Theater
Double Fine Productions
Technical Artist
08
2012
Amnesia Fortnight - 2012
Double Fine Productions
Technical Artist
Open to lead technical art roles.
Lead and senior technical art positions, and studio engagements through FabricatorStudio. Based in Denver, Colorado.