Resume

Sahana Vijai · Art Lead · Creative Technologist

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Experience

Meta London

AI-Enabled Tech Artist 2026 – present
Agentic AI and procedural content prototypes, and which of those patterns actually survive contact with a production art pipeline.
Art Lead · hair strategy and systems 2025
The hair strategy document, the modular component system underneath it, and the funded roadmap it secured. Ran one intake and prioritisation path across two PM workstreams.
Art Lead · Avatars 2.0 launch 2024
Visual direction, production pipeline, vendor onboarding and the team, on a new product with the technical foundation still moving.
3D Character Artist 2022 – 2023
Maquettes that set the aesthetic language for a new generation of stylized avatars, plus the tooling that removed a manual authoring stage the team still works through.

Facebook Reality Labs, Meta Pittsburgh

Character Artist · XR Avatars 2015 – 2022
Real-time avatars for VR: deformation transfer, facial blendshapes, rigging and cloth, built and validated inside runtime budgets in Unreal and Unity.

Disney Research Pittsburgh

Associate Digital Artist 2015
Character technology prototypes alongside research scientists, bridging character art and the technical pipeline.
The work in depth