About

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I’m Ben Riley, a Lead Technical Artist based in Florida. For nearly five years I’ve been at Evil Eye Pictures, making Unreal Engine 5 cinematics for Epic Games: Fortnite season trailers, cinematic shorts, live events and UEFN experiences. I’ve led the tech art team there since 2023.

Before that I was an Unreal TD at The Third Floor, working on previs for Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Masters of the Universe and Universal’s Harry Potter and the Battle at the Ministry, and on the animated short Skytribe. I started out in VR and AR at UNC’s Reese Innovation Lab. On the side I run Stingray Studios, which released the UE5 horror game Blanket Fort on Steam in 2025.

I’ve built or led the team that built 29 Unreal editor tools, and trained about 20 artists across five departments in Unreal and Blueprint, including how to build their own tools.

Resume

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Skills

Unreal Engine 4/5: Blueprint, C++, editor tools and plugins, PCG, Niagara, materials and shaders, Sequencer and Movie Render Queue, Animation Blueprints and Control Rig, gameplay systems and AI, lighting, Nanite and Lumen, profiling and optimization.

Also: UEFN and Verse, Python, Maya, Substance, Perforce, Houdini, Blender, EmberGen, Meta Quest VR, mobile AR.

Talks

East Coast Games Conference 2019: panelist, postmortem of a VR exhibit at the Gray Fossil Site and Museum.

ETSU Boland Symposium 2017: presented a UE4 dynamic gore-based combat system.

Education

East Tennessee State University, B.S. Digital Media, Game Design concentration, 2019.

Contact

benrileygames@gmail.com · LinkedIn · Based in Florida, open to remote roles.