Sid Naik — 3D Engineer & Artist

Sid Naik

Hi, I'm Sid!

3D Engineer & Artist

I design where art meets engineering: real-time 3D systems, shaders, pipelines.

Who I've worked with

Cryptic Conservatory

2017–2026

Selected work

Toggle Protected Portfolio

Password on request

2026
Cryptic Conservatory
Drama Center
Render pipeline, character & environment pipeline + art, gameplay engineering.
ProductSoftware Engineer & Artist
Future Arts
Future Arts Way
Unity iOS build path, and iOS features like a custom screen recorder.
InstallationSoftware Engineer
2025
Meta Reality Labs
AR Glasses Design & Prototyping
Designed and developed OS input and interaction prototypes for Meta’s Display glasses and Neural wristband.
ProductSoftware Engineer & Product Designer
Future Arts
AR+Pops: Home Made
Engineered the AR experience and web backend. Hand-painted & animated the watercolor diorama.
InstallationSoftware Engineer & Artist
2020–2024
Walmart
In-Store AR Navigation
Software Engineering and UX design for our in-store AR app that guided shoppers to every item on their list in real Walmart Supercenters.
R&DSoftware Engineer & UX Designer
2019–2020
Moving Pieces
Dodo Peak
Technical art on tooling, UI, character and environment art, and animation for an Apple Arcade launch title.
ProductTechnical Artist
Freelance: Yarwad Mixed Reality
Yarwad XR Game Show
0--> 1 Product P.O.C. Engineered the networked AR/VR game show that hosts guests on Eric Yearwood’s XR comedy channel.
R&DSoftware Engineer & Artist
2017–2019
Personal Project
Wizards Chess VR
Solo-developed over 2 years: every model, rig, animation, VFX and line of code.
ProductSoftware Engineer & Artist

Augmented Reality Prototypes

Hackathon Winner

Hygge

Lead AR developer on the 1st-place Immersive Experiences build at the SensAI SF hackathon.

UnityVoice SDKC#

Product Prototype

Deaf Subtitles

Lead AR developer: built the Quest 3 prototype that puts live subtitles in view.

Double-dutch

Built networked shared-space physics so two people can swing the same AR jump rope.

Hackathon Winner

Elsewhere

Lead AR developer on the Decart.AI hackathon’s 3rd-place game.

Reality Reskin

Ran live passthrough through Decart’s video-to-video model to restyle the room in real time.

Lighting Copy + Paste

Lighting Copy + Paste

Solo-built the capture-and-paste interaction that relights a room with copied real lights.