I lead a Technical Art team with Claude wired into the Unity Editor through MCP. The result is measured, not vibes: up to 2× throughput and 213 h in 8.5 weeks, about 100 h a month — on top of the editor tools and shaders that quietly keep artists unblocked.
2×
Throughput multiplier at peak (1.7× over 8.5 weeks)
213 h
time saved in 8.5 weeks, about 100 h a month
22
Claude agent skills written and in daily use
17
Unity Editor tools shipped in the tech-art package
3,500+
Unity Editor operations driven through MCP
86k
Words of artist tutorials, screenshots taken by script
Every number is re-runnable. Hours, sessions, commits, prefabs, words and tool calls are read from Claude Code session logs and git; only the “by hand” baselines are estimates, and those are listed openly so a reviewer can change one and watch the totals follow.
Bulk content and documentation run at 2–3×; scene iteration and debugging closer to 1.5×. AI does not decide anything — priorities, render-pipeline calls and what ships stay with me.
A wiki or design doc becomes finished Unity content — 551 prefabs (heroes, weapons, enemies, gear, buffs) created, sprites assigned, stats and merge rules wired, committed. Artists get the complete sample, not a representative handful.
Inspector-only tutorials written straight from the module, screenshots captured by script from the real Unity window, every link verified against the paths artists actually have. 86,000 words across six guides — depth that would never be written by hand.
Unorganized asset dumps inventoried, migrated into Samples and published as an Assets Visual Guide — one page per game with a studio-lit thumbnail of every prefab and model. Credited by product with cutting artist production time and rolled out to every game.
Package resolution errors, sample folder links, LFS, broken shaders and materials, editor slowdowns — fixed and repackaged in the same session instead of the next day. Roughly 12 hours of artist downtime avoided per month.
A two-phase QA method — static checks with no Unity, then live passes through MCP on a duplicated scene — writes one folder per problem with a repro and screenshots, and splits findings into “fix locally” vs “needs dev”. Tickets reach engineers with a repro, a scene and a path.
A nightly agent leaves a five-section brief in Slack before the workday — team WIP by person, blockers, meetings, messages needing a reply — and keeps per-game trackers, team capacity and 1:1 prep current across monday.com and Slack. Built once, runs overnight.
Cat Match went from Unity 5.6 to Unity 6: UnityScript to C#, iTween to uGUI, IAP 5, Android and iOS built from the command line, headless smoke tests with logs, installed and played on an iPhone. New character sprites were generated with the prompts saved beside them.
A skill holds the method. A script reads the Unity project and packs the atlas, a simulator tunes the win rate, a headless browser plays it by drag and by tap and takes the screenshots. The result is the Cat Match playable on this site.
22 Claude agent skills turn tribal knowledge into something another tech artist can run: the QA method, the tutorial format, the asset process, the rules for touching code we don't own. A selection:
The two-phase QA method: static checks (filesystem, git, YAML, GUIDs) before Unity opens, then in-editor test passes; also writes the Figma requirements audit and files the tickets.
Tutorial authors and updates artist-facing guides with editor screenshots. Tutor answers an artist’s “how do I…” as numbered clicks read straight out of those guides — never code, never a doc dump.
The standing rule for code we don’t own: never edit a shared module in place. Worktree isolation, a feature branch, a dev-facing note, a pull request and the feedback task that carries the link.
Renders a studio-lit thumbnail of every prefab and model in a package into a filterable HTML guide, and lays the same assets out in one review scene by category — problems on a red strip.
Audits a new game’s asset dump against the asset-manager checklist: what survives import, duplicates, folder weight, a must-have / nice-to-have split and a contact sheet ready to share.
One skill per game module — units, stats, merging, physics, cameras, audio — so “why does this unit deal no damage?” is answered from the Inspector, without reading the code.
Package plumbing: local checkouts without ever committing local paths, the sample folder link Unity needs to see hidden samples, and the scaffold for a new samples repo.
Captures Unity Profiler data from Play mode and grades a playground against the handover budget — 60 FPS median, no frame over 100 ms, zero logged errors.
Daily brief, who runs dry on tasks, asset deadlines, 1:1 canvases and calendar blocking — the routines that keep a distributed tech-art team visible without status meetings.
17 C# editor windows and menu commands, plus the scripts and hooks around them — built to be clicked by an artist or driven by an agent, and idempotent so they can be re-run after every fix.
Scans a module and writes the tutorial skeleton plus a self-contained Markdown viewer window that ships inside the sample — TOC, search, inline images, and it re-parses live while an AI rewrites the file under it.
Drop in any asset or folder; it resolves every transitive dependency, copies to a destination and rewrites GUIDs so the copies reference each other. With undo.
A live grid of looping previews for every VFX in a folder — VFX Graph assets and Shuriken prefabs alike, resolved by reflection so it compiles with or without the package.
Builds a review scene with every asset of a type on a non-overlapping grid, and lays any scene selection on an XZ grid with live preview and ground labels.
Flags Spine prefabs whose skeleton, data asset and atlas resolve to different spine-unity versions, realigns them, and repairs premultiplied-alpha atlases in Linear color space.
Profiler capture from Play mode, exported and graded against the playground handover budget before anything reaches artists.
Idempotent importers that turn a studio’s .max / .ma / FBX dumps into wired prefabs with per-asset folders — converting sources through 3ds Max and Maya batch when no FBX exists.
Screenshots the real Unity Editor window — including the GPU-rendered Game view that in-editor helpers can’t reach — on Windows and macOS. Every tutorial image comes from it.
A gate that stops Claude from driving the wrong Unity instance when two are open, an opt-in MCP-for-Unity installer, a chime when a long run finishes, and a one-key “free unused editor memory” command.
Personal tools and shaders, with the source attached where there is code — the kind of quiet, practical work that makes everyone else's day smoother.
Unity Editor Tool
A Unity Editor tool that exports clean prefabs from any project. Strips non-whitelisted components, saves meshes/materials/textures as standalone assets, and can optionally replace scene objects or generate a new .unity scene — all configurable via a ScriptableObject settings panel.
Unity Runtime Component
A Unity MonoBehaviour that automatically remaps clothing bones to the character skeleton — works in both Edit Mode and Play Mode. Handles custom skeletons (hair, accessories) gracefully, reparents unmatched bones by proximity, and syncs blend shapes so body customization always propagates to equipped outfits.
Unity Custom Shader
A transparent particle shader with tiling, UV offset, tint color, and brightness multiplier. Fully supports Unity's Particle System vertex colors (Start Color, color-over-lifetime) and renders in the Transparent queue with ZWrite Off — no sorting artifacts, no scene lighting interference.
URP Shader Graph
A world-space snow shader built in Shader Graph: snow gathers on surfaces facing a configurable grow direction (dot product with the world normal), with smoothstep-controlled coverage, noise-broken edges and a noise-tinted snow color blended over the base map — tweakable per material, no textures to paint.
Markdown method, Python inliner, WebP converter
A written method and build scripts for packing HTML5 playable ads from a Unity game’s own assets.
Built in C#, HLSL, ShaderLab and Shader Graph — developed with AI assistance to move fast and ship reliable tools.