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Hey hey, lucky human!
Liting has two things to share with you today. |
I entered the world of video games when I was 5.
I am sincerely grateful for all the amazing games that kept emerging throughout my childhood and teenage years — they accompanied me as I grew up, and I owe so much to the creators behind them.
I loved exploring and adventuring in virtual worlds, and I was a dedicated player of many MMORPGs.
I started developing my own game during my undergrad 👾. Being an independent game developer has turned out to be far more challenging than I first imagined 🤯. To turn my ideas into reality, I kept learning new skills with every project 🔥.
My current skill stack spans:
- Visual Art & Design: 3D modeling, Animation, UI design, Motion Graphics
- Interactive Systems & Engines: Unity (C#), Game Physics, AR/VR
- Audio: Music Composition, Sound Effects Design
✨ Here are some of my works in AR/VR, VFX (visual effects), 3D modeling, and games:
3rd Prize, Beijing College Student Animation Design Awards, 2022
Grand Award, 3D Digital Innovation Design Competition, Beijing, 2023
Details:
Created by: Liting Wen, Liwei Wang, Yingqi Tian, Zimo Yang, Zhenkun Zheng
Tools: Unity, RealityCapture
Intro: We conducted on-site 3D scanning and refinement of Lord Rabbit; developed multiple interactive features including card-based model switching, gesture-controlled rotation and scaling, and 3D model coloring.
2nd Prize, 3D Digital Innovation Design Competition, Beijing, 2023
Details:
Created by: Yingqi Tian, Zimo Yang, Liting Wen, Liwei Wang, Zhenkun Zheng
Tools: Blender, Unity
Intro: We used Blender for 3D modeling and Unity for VR game development. Players explore the game world through a VR headset and controllers, engaging in interactions such as archery, foraging, NPC conversations, and treasure hunting.
3rd Prize, National College Digital Art & Design Awards (China), 2023
Details:
Created by: Liting Wen, Zimo Yang
Tool: Nuke
Intro: We shot the real-world footage and crafted visual effects in Nuke, including camera tracking, chroma keying, compositing, etc. The short film envisions a speculative future, exploring the delicate interplay between humanity and nature.
Details:
Created by: Liting Wen
Tool: Unity
Intro: Users roam around a virtual gallery and interact with embedded videos and images via gaze interaction. I created it as a diary to document lovely moments of my life 💕. Some assets were from the Unity Asset Store.
Modern game development still involves a great deal of manual production work.
I imagine a future where game creation becomes a form of pure artistic expression — where developers can focus on expressing their ideas, rather than being constrained by asset modeling, 3D world building, and other labor-intensive processes. (…AKA the parts that cause me the most suffering 😤)
Now I'm at CMU pursuing research in 3D vision 💗. I hope my work can enable expressive, intelligent 3D assets and facilitate both virtual game creation and real-world applications.
I started formal music training when I was 6. Though I'd been playing with sound since the day I arrived in the world 👶.
8 years of piano, 5 years of guzheng (Chinese zither), and occasional raids on my friends' practice rooms to learn random instruments (all forgotten now, but it was fun 😌). I also sang in a choir at one point.
And since I was 9, my favorite singer has been Eason Chan. His music shaped my taste for Chinese pop.
In undergrad, I also tried learning a bit of rap, thinking it would level up my debate performance. (Results remain inconclusive 🤷♀️.)
As I mentioned on my games page, I somehow found myself learning modern music-production tools. Now I create music with them, blending years of traditional instrument training with whatever modern audio techniques I've managed to acquire.
✨ Here are some of my works in animation scoring, sound design, AI-driven music generation, instrument simulation, and modular synthesis:
Details:
Created by: Liting Wen, Zimo Yang
Tool: Cubase
Intro: Rooted in the expressive vocabulary of the Chinese pentatonic tradition and voiced through pipa, dizi, guzheng, bangzi, gong, and sheng, the music weaves together the tender shyness of a first meeting and a soft, classical romantic aura. It evokes a world where youthful innocence and timeless beauty resonate in harmony.
Details:
Created by: Liting Wen, Yu Sun, Zimo Yang, Feng Xiong (voice actor)
Tool: Cubase
Intro: Composed background music with compression and reverb; created sound effects; recorded and edited character dialogue, and applied post-production equalization.
Details:
Created by: Liting Wen, Zimo Yang
Tool: LSTM-based sequence generation model
Intro: A music generation model trained on traditional Chinese Gongche notation that composes melody aligned to classical Chinese lyrics at both sentence and character levels.
Details:
Created by: Liting Wen
Tool: Cubase
Intro: A Cubase-based flute performance simulation of Liang Zhu (The Butterfly Lovers). This practice script focuses on expressive flute techniques, including extended vibrato, realistic breathing, dynamic shaping, staccato articulation, and ornamental grace notes.
Details:
Created by: Liting Wen
Tool: VCV Rack 2
Intro: A short practice draft created with modular synthesizer. It’s brief simply because that’s all I made for now..
I hope music will always remain a natural, serendipitous surprise in my life 🎊. (== no concrete plan.)
(Sometimes when I finish work early, I love taking a detour at moments like this 🌇 and playing an Eason Chan song about sunsets. The 2010 version is my favorite!)
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Art and music are essential elements of Liting's world. |
Liting always enjoys chatting with people. Her contact info is encoded on her official homepage. |