Pixel to Voxel
I'm currently a Software Engineer at Activision's Central Studio, where I collaborate with teams across Activision, Blizzard, and Xbox Game Studios. I develop tools that support our end-to-end capture pipelines — including facial, motion, and material capture — to enhance both the efficiency of production workflows and the visual quality of our games.
Below are some of the projects I've worked on:
Call of Duty Black Ops 6 - 2025
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 - 2024
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 - 2023
Prior to Activision, I was a pipeline engineer for Nickelodeon and The Monk Studios in Thailand where I developed the pipeline for their 2D animation projects which included Thailand’s first Netflix Kids series!
I was exploring the use of deep learning in 3D workflows and stumbled upon a paper (link) that predicts voxels from sketches. I drew a 3D “P”, used a pre-trained model, created with the Caffe framework, to output a volumetric prediction matrix and visualized the voxels using MatPlotLib.
I read a paper (link) and was intrigued by the StyleGAN architecture and decided to train a StyleGAN with the MetFaces database (consisting of paintings and sculptures) which resulted in painterly portraits rather than and realistic portrait. I also did some inference tests with the pertained Pixel2Style2Pixel (pSp) framework to get Toonified faces, faces from sketches and faces from segmentation.
Path Tracer
Real-Time Jello Simulation
Non-PhotoRealistic SPH
OpenGL 3D Space
Botanist
Wear These
In a team of 2, we implemented a Monte Carlo Path Tracer that runs purely on the CPU with C++. Our Path Tracer is able to load and render .obj models and support diffuse, specular, gloss and glass materials using bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDF). We accelerated our program using bounding volume hierarchies and OpenMP. We later rendered scenes with different triangle counts and materials to benchmark the results which can be viewed on our Github page.
Future improvements:
We would like to implement a built in Denoiser to reduce the noise in our output, importance sampling to speed up the calculation and possibly a CUDA implementation.
In a team of 2, we implemented a real-time jello simulation with OpenGL and C++. I was responsible for implementing the physics and interactions. The jello is based on a mass-spring system using Euler integration and Runge-Kutta 4th order.
Future improvements:
We would like to implement allow the jello to jiggle of the plate and collide with other objects in the bounding box.
In a team of 2 we made a fun program that showcases non-photorealistic rendering. My partner was responsible for implementing the physics and I was responsible for the visual aspects. The user can select the colors of the outline, background and tones in the non-photorealistic shader. The user can also change the particle sizes and the model displayed.
In a team of 2, we wanted to learn Qt and complement our OpenGL implementation with a nice UI so we decided to create a 3D space for users to play with using Qt, Qt’s OpenGL framework and C++. We also utilized external libraries such as Assimp, IFreeImage and IrrKlang to assist in loading 3D models, textures and audio.
Future improvements:
We would like to provide more controls such as uniform scaling and drag/drop objects directly onto cursor’s position, instancing for better performance and explore other graphics API such as Vulkan.
was a personal project I did to learn more about creating UIs within Maya. The tool is written in Python for Maya. This tool makes different variations of flowers based on a Daisy. This gives the user the ability to choose the style of the petal, style of the disc, bloom level, variation in the petals, the color and the density of the petals. This outputs flowers in groups with their own shader groups. The geometry groups will make it easy for the users to move and resize the flowers while having flexibility to edit. I chose to have a color palette to control visual quality.
Future improvements:
I would love to add variations in the individual petal's geometry, the bud's geometry and the stem's geometry, add the ability to generate multiple in one click and add more texture/patterns in the discs.
For Hack at Brown in 2017, my team designed a device to aid the visually impaired with transportation. Within 48 hours, we learned how to code and hardware hack the Arduino to respond to sensors and send buzzing signals to the user wearing the device. As a group of RISD and Brown students with completely different background and no engineering knowledge, we designed the mock up as well as making a working prototype to present to other groups. We won the first time hacker award.
CGMonsterisreal Instagram Promo Video
According to Plan
Chomp the Cookie Monster Model
Ramen Rig
Cooking Disaster
When Bone Meets Meat
Sketch
Lobster Spa
Dog Portraits
Compilation of short animations I did during the summer. These projects are short and are done in one or two days.
0:00 - A Dog’s Dream
0:15 - Watermelon!
0:17 - Its never empty
0:30 - Fly through
0:32 - The subway jungle
0:37 - Subway Gym
0:44 - sweet slide
0:49 - Dog loves Ice Cream
0:50 - Its me
0:54 - Eclipse
Softwares: Adobe Creative Suite, Autodesk Maya, Protools.
Length: 4:44 mins
According to Plan is my undergraduate thesis film at RISD. My love and fascination for both 2D and 3D animation created this mix of 2D animation on a 3D background where I get to push myself out of my comfort zone and explore both mediums. The story was inspired by my relationship with my mother, my own expectations of life, society's expectation of life and my inability to cook with a pinch of imagination. With According to Plan, I hope to bring out the Thai culture to an international group of audience while being able to present a common aspect of life that everyone can relate to. This was a year long individual project with the help and guidance of professors and professional filmmakers around the world.
Softwares: Adobe Creative Suite, Autodesk Maya.
Length: 0:31 mins
This is a turn table of Chomp’s walk cycle that shows the modeling, rigging, texturing and shading processes.
Softwares: Autodesk Maya.
I designed, modeled, textured and rigged this ramen character as a fun one week personal project. I made it cartoony so it can defy the rules of life. The GUI was coded with MEL. From my personal animator perspective, it is important for each parts to be easily accessible with the GUI and have all the animated attributes in the attribute editor.
Medium: Watercolor, Micron pen and digital.
This project was inspired by my lack of cooking skills and my love for food. I painted this with watercolor and used Photoshop to enhance/edit the piece. I used content, perspective lines, light and color to create contrast which gives the piece a focal point, life and depth.
Medium: Digital
I created this character for my Character Design class. This character was inspired by my playfulness to illustrate a character in an awkward situation for the audience. Therefore, I thought it would be funny that a meatless character meets a piece of meat. This project taught me that in illustrations, you need to exaggerate the body language and the silhouette because subtle expressions might not be the most effective or the easiest to grasps.
Medium: Color pencil and graphite on colored paper.
Dimension: 20 x 14 inches
I explored the use of two colors on a mid-tone paper to create dimension and form.
Medium: Watercolor and ink.
Dimension : 8 x 10 inches
This was inspired by my funny idea: what if a lobster (a hard shell creature) goes for a back massage. This also combines both of my favorite things: a lobster and massages.
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas.
Fun project painting my pets.
Hi! My name is Angel (Luchcha) Lam. I am a life-long learner who is passionate about entertainment and technology!
I am always seeking for opportunities to further explore the fascinating hybrid of art and technology, broaden my skills and challenge the boundaries of immersive and innovative technology/storytelling. I hope to bring happiness and unique experiences to the world through computer graphics.
I have a Master's degree in Computer Graphics Technology from Purdue University and a Bachelor's in Film, Animation and Video with a concentration in Computing from Rhode Island School of Design.
I was born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand. I am obsessed with chocolate chips, dogs, frisbee, ice-cream and the outdoors!
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