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The Rusted

2D platformer · Rodd Games · My role: Senior Technical Artist
RoleSenior TA2025 – 2026
ReleasedNov 2026Steam
Tools built5Unity Editor
EngineUnity 6URP 2D
AnimationSpine+ Particle System
PlatformsPC · MacWindows, macOS

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On The Rusted I worked on scene composition, lighting, animation and VFX integration, and shader and material adaptations. I also designed and built project-specific Unity tools to take repetitive work out of daily production and keep visual content consistent.

What I owned
Scene composition, lighting and atmosphere · Spine animation and VFX integration · Sprite and VFX shader/material adaptations · Project-specific Unity editor tools

Built with
Unity 6 · URP 2D · Spine 2D · Unity Particle System · All In 1 Sprite Shader · ProCamera2D

Tools I built

Backgroundz 40 → 12
Gameplayz 12 → −2
Foregroundz −2 → −20
Editor tool · Depth

Sorting Tool

Splits a scene into depth zones on Z and sets Sorting Layer and Order in Layer from position, so sprites follow shared rules instead of hand-typed numbers.

Z-range zonesWeighted Z + XPer-zone materialsScene View gizmosLive update
Track 0 · Attack
Event · swing
VFX · SparkBurst
Camera · shake
Editor tool · Animation

Spine–VFX Animation Tool

Links Spine animations to particle systems in the Inspector. Effects fire on start, run for the animation's length or trigger on Spine events, with camera shake and FOV beside them.

Per-animation VFXSpine eventsTrack selectShake + FOV
SourceBaked blur
Editor tool · Rendering

Blur Studio 2D

Bakes blur into new sprites by Z or Sorting Order, with padding, halo fixes and sliced-border support, then re-assigns them in the scene.

GaussianReads All In 1Auto paddingBatch output
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Editor tools · Pipeline

Spritesheet Generator + Animation Creator

Loose frames in, sliced sheet and Animation Clip out. Order, cell size, pivot, PPU and FPS are set once and reused.

Natural sortAuto cell sizeAuto sliceFPS + loop

Information

StudioRodd Games
My roleSenior Technical Artist
Year2026
Genre2D platformer
PlatformsPC · Mac (Steam)