Donald Carling

Donald Carling has held numerous roles in the game industry since 2018. Donald began as a Teacher Assistant for Principles of Drawing & Life Drawing Courses at Becker College. Donald then became a 2D Art Intern at Acme Nerd Games, LLC, where they used Illustrator to create 2D vector isometric assets for the game Dane Changers. Subsequently, they became a Full-Time Game Artist/Designer Intern at The Beamer LLC, where they produced around 25+ VFXs within Unity and implemented effects in Unity game in code through C#. Donald was then hired for the role of Game Artist/Designer at The Beamer LLC, where they crafted over 80+ VFXs within Unity, produced over 45+ shaders using Unity’s node-based system, created over 25+ spline-based animations, and created a shader system to display and implement them into the game. Additionally, they were the Art Lead at W.I.R.E.D Inc, Becker College, where they implemented environment art and detail across 10 levels. In 2021, they became a VFX Artist at Black Kite Games, where they crafted over 80+ VFXs within Unity, produced over 45+ shaders using Unity’s node-based system, and created over 25+ spline-based animations. Donald also became a VFX/Technical Artist at Little Orbit, where they worked on developing and integrating VFXs within Unity for game projects, helped to create solutions for implementing new assets within game engine, and developed and integrated game systems to better improve gameflow and its visualization. Lastly, they were a VR Technical Artist at WHITE SNAKE PROJECTS from January 2020 to June 2020 and from May 2021 to September 2022, where they created a 6-minute long VR video sequence for Performance Art show, composed and rendered video as a 360 video, and created solutions to make sure assets appeared correctly on the cubemap.

Donald Carling graduated from Becker College in 2018 with a Bachelor's Degree in Game and Interactive Media Design. Donald attended Becker College from 2015 to 2018.