Jean Moreno

game developer

Unity Assets
Free and commercial packages available on the Unity Asset Store.
Cartoon FX Remasters 1, 2, 3, 4, Free 2020-2022
Collections of stylized visual effects mainly made with particle systems.
These are complete sets of new effects remade from scratch based on the old ones I made back in 2012-2014, but using new modern shader techniques and optimizations that I have learned throughout the years.
I improved both quality and performance, and also made it work with the URP pipeline.

I also made an MP4 gallery of almost all those effects.
Toony Colors Pro 2 2013-2023
A collection of stylized shaders that can achieve a wide range of non-photorealistic rendering effects.
It includes a lot of user-friendly tools to easily get the desired results, and a powerful user-friendly 'Shader Generator' to create tailored shaders.
Cartoon FX Free 2018
Free version of Cartoon FX, with 50 effects taken from the 4 commercial packs.
Shape FX 2016
A collection of simple-shape-based effects for use in low-poly and voxel-style games. Comes with a powerful editor to easily change visuals, colors, size, etc.
Toony Colors Free 2013-2016
Free version of Toony Colors Pro 2, including 4 shaders. It's a good way to see if the stylized approach would work for a project, before going further with Toony Colors Pro 2.
Cartoon FX Pack 4 2014
The fourth Cartoon FX pack, with 50+ brand new effects! This one took a slightly more realistic and sci-fi approach!
Free MatCap Shaders 2013
Free MatCap-like shader pack: use a single texture to define the whole shading.
The shaders are unlit and thus very fast!
Cartoon FX Pack 3 2013
Third iteration of the popular Cartoon FX packs, with 50+ awesome fantasy-focused effects!
War FX 2012-2013
A collection of realistic effects for warlike games! Explosions, fire, muzzle flashes, smoke, bullet impacts...
Cartoon FX Pack 2 2012
Follow up of the first pack, with more than 50 awesome new effects!
Cartoon FX Pack 1 2012
A collection of cartoon-styled visual effects made with particle systems.
The very first pack I made for the Asset Store, which started out with effects made for a cancelled project.
Has been updated to 'Cartoon FX Remaster' (see above).
Works
Past and present professional projects.
Tinykin 2022
SplashteamPC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switch
I made all the VFX in the game, including code integration when necessary.
Tinykin is puzzle-platformer set in a giant 90s house, where insects have comfortably settled. You will solve puzzles to help them out, in exchange for parts to build a spaceship to go back to your home planet.
The game smartly combines a collectathon-platformer gameplay reminiscent of the N64 era with a Pikmin-like mechanic using the Tinykins, little creatures that have various abilities.
Blanc 2021-2022
Casus LudiSwitch, PC
I mainly worked as a technical artist: I wrote the main shaders of the game, and had to find solutions such as drawing persistent traces on the snow, or designing a unified wind system for vegetation, with the constraint of all of that working on the Nintendo Switch. I had to explore making custom tools in Blender for the latter, which I found very versatile and satisfying!
Blanc is a 3D atmospheric game with a monochrome graphic novel rendering style. You play in coop as a cub and a fawn who are following the traces of their families in order to reunite with them, in a snowy landscape deserted by humans.
SyncSketch 2019-2021
I worked as a software engineer on various projects, including the SyncSketch Unity plugin and the foundations for the 3D Viewer using ThreeJS.
SyncSketch is a remote collaboration tool, allowing you to upload various media (images, movies, 3D models) and annotate them, add revisions, comments, etc.
It will generate a link so that users can join and collaborate synchroneously, all within their web browsers.
SyncSketch was later acquired by Unity Technologies.
Sonder 2016-2018
SOBA ProductionsShort Film
I made all the shaders for the movie, based on Toony Colors Pro 2, and worked in various other departments: VFX, Unity tools, server administration... I was working in close relationship with the lighting team to ensure they had all the tools needed to create those beautiful images, while teaching them to use Unity as almost all the team came from the traditional CG world.
Sonder is a 12 minutes stylized short film made with Unity. It was a passion project that took 3 years and up to 144 persons to complete. We gave a talk at Unite Berlin 2018 about it, where I focused on the technical and shading parts of making it.

You can watch the full movie here: https://vimeo.com/253571683
Seasons after Fall 2016
Swing Swing SubmarinePS4, Xbox One, PC
I made various VFX and shaders for the game.
Seasons after Fall is a 2D sidescroller starring a fox who can change between seasons to solve puzzles and progress throughout the world.
Furi 2015-2016
The Game BakersPS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC
I helped make various VFX (mostly for in-game cutscenes), shaders and VFX-related scripts and tools for the game.
Furi is a unique action game mixing bullet hell and sword duelling mechanics in a stylish cyber-fantasy universe.
Character design was made by Takashi Okazaki of Afro Samurai fame, and the frenetic OST was composed by a handful of talented electro musicians.
CounterSpy 2012-2014
DynamightyPS4, PS3, PS Vita, iOS, Android
I made all the VFX in the game, and helped with shaders and UI.
CounterSpy is a sidescroller set in the 60s during the cold war. It features procedurally-generated levels and has a very distinctive art style.
Projects
Past and present personal projects.
Face Theater 2017
Play here (WebGL)
A small WebGL game made in 4 days with Unity.
You are presented with an expression, and you need to adjust the face to reflect that expression. You can optionnally tweet the result through the game.
The Best Shot Ever 2013
Play here (Unity WebPlayer)
A small game made in 5 days for the 2013 7DFPS game jam
You have to take the best picture by provoking emotions on little monsters using up to two items.
The picture score is determined according to the monsters' emotions, their visibility on the picture and their angle (the more they are facing the camera, the more points). Pictures are automatically uploaded to a web page with the rankings.
Work Counter 2011
Download (.NET 3.5, 61 kB)
A small .NET application made to keep track of the time spent working on projects.
I still use it to count the hours spent on my freelance jobs!
ROM Hacking 2003-2009
NES, SNES
A long time ago I was active in the NES and SNES rom hacking scene, mostly on Super Mario Bros 3 and a bit on Zelda : A Link to the Past.
NES assembly was my first experience with programming, so I was a bit disoriented when I started learning high-level languages years later!
I made a small but fully featured SMB3 hack where I introduced some assembly hacking: you can for example cumulate the fire power with any other power from the game (e.g. fire raccoon Mario! 🔥).
You can also check my ROMHacking.net profile page to see other released projects I've worked on.
Contact
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