Star Wars Jedi Series
MAY–AUG 2024 · JUN 2025–PRESENT
Footage from Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (2023), which shipped before I joined.
I make real-time effects for Respawn Entertainment's Star Wars Jedi team, in Unreal Engine 5 with Niagara and Houdini.
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Jedi: Fallen Order
My part
I joined the team as a VFX Artist Intern from May to August 2024, finished my degree at RIT that December, and came back as an Associate VFX Artist in June 2025.
Most of my work lately is combat effects and environment VFX. I also build systems for other artists to use, and make some of the Force effects. I plan each effect with the other departments and take it to final, and all of it has to fit the game's frame budget on console.
The specifics are under NDA, so I can't show my own work from the team here.
The series
Both games shipped before I joined, so this footage is the team's work. It's the standard I work to now.
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019). Cal Kestis's first game: lightsaber action with Souls-style combat, set just after Order 66.
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (2023). The sequel, five years on for Cal: five lightsaber stances and larger, semi-open worlds.
