BT Ward
Technical Artist and Programmer
Recent Tech Art
Tech Art at Electronic Arts
At Electronic Arts I was one of three technical artists within CREATE Animation, a group of animators primarily focused on cinematics. In my biggest project at EA, I developed a repurposed customizable animation picker tool for animating monsters in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. My work also included rapidly embedding into many different teams around the company and becoming a local expert in their unique tech stacks, as well as providing bespoke tools and scripting solutions at any scale. [...]
Recent Code
Web News Search
A pipeline for web news archival and search. Consists of three parts: an ETL tool which transfers articles from Common Crawl archives to an Amazon Elasticsearch index, a Java application which implements a REST API for search queries, and a React frontend which allows users to easily set up searches and preview results. [...]