TEAM

Our Team

Bella Liu

Bella specializes in technical art, graphics programming, and tools & pipeline programming, and is passionate about all things storytelling related.

Cassie Lin

Cassie is a versatile UI/UX and graphic designer, aiming to use her creativity to solve problems.

Tianyi (Henry) Lin

With studies in technical art, game design, and programming, Tianyi (Henry) aims to be a bridge between technology and art.

Rushil Sojitra

Rushil is a budding level designer and creative producer, aspiring to create innovative and engaging experiences through the interactive medium of games. With a programming and UI/UX background, Rushil aims to bring technical as well as creative insights along with his passion for creating games to the entertainment industry. He has worked on developing and designing several small virtual worlds during his time at ETC as a programmer and game designer.

Jesse Xu

Jesse is a technical artist, specializing in rendering and rigging. He is motivated by the visually appealing outputs from coding.

Taiyu (Ryan) Wu

Taiyu Wu (Ryan) is a game and level designer. With great passion for game design, he hopes to create wonderful and unique experiences for the players.

Instructors

Jonathan Walton

Jonathan is an award-winning indie game designer, a former China policy analyst, and a teacher and scholar focused on critical analysis of science, technology, and media.
Jonathan looks forward to bringing his eclectic background and deep love of both teaching and game design to the ETC, helping to train the next generation of innovative entertainment designers.

Ricardo Washington

Ricardo serves as an adjunct faculty member at the Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center. He specializes in giving the students instruction and guidance in art related areas of their program.

Ricardo was a faculty member at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in the Game Art and Design department.