Portfolio on Ethan's Archives

Ti-84 Calculator

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 10:00:00 -0400

A little model of my TI-84 calculator done as a short personal modeling project. The final model is about 15k tris with 1, 4k texture set. Modeled, unwrapped, and rendered in Blender, textured in Substance Painter.

I put as much care as possible into capturing every little detail but that doesn’t mean I didn’t miss some. There is one pretty obvious thing I didn’t catch until after most of my renderings here see if you can spot it.

18th Century John Cuff Microscope

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 10:00:00 -0400

This model was originally intended for a modeling competition which, I did submit it to and won with.

However there was much more I wanted to do with the design so I have continued to work on it and research creator, history, and use of the microscope to try to make it as detailed and as accurate as possible. The Cuff-type Microscope was an innovation on early microscope design making microscopy much easier and more accessible.

Firetower Environment

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 10:00:00 -0400

The style of this work is largely inspired by Jan Krocak and Mikael Gustafsson. Along with the dioramas of the youtube channel Boylei Hobby Time. The environment was based off a roblox showcase game called Above The Forest which was taken down a while ago but seems to have been archived. During the creation of this project I also played Firewatch. I have a love for warm cool contrast and cozy environemnts as you can see in the rest of my portfolio.

Frigid Voyage

Fri, 19 May 2023 10:00:00 -0400

I created this animation as a submission to a Minecraft Animation Community Collab hosted by Chicoh in the style of the Pwnisher Challenge. The base animation of the player and boat was provided. When I was making this I had just read an article by Bram Stout Productions about their work on A Warden’s Song. In the video the smoke particle textures from in-game were used to create fog. I decided to do the same in this scene. The movement of the scraf and lantern where physically simulated using bones constrainted to cloth physics.

Procedual Tank Tracks (WIP)

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:00:00 -0400

My friend was looking to make a game involving tanks and destructible terrain so as part of that project I devised a system for procedually simulating the motion fo tank tracks. i did this by using a piecewise parametric function, effectively a spline. The spline is composed of lines, arcs, and bézier curves.

Beyond the parametric function for determining the position of links in the track. the controller it self uses a pretty standard system of raycast springs to create suspension. Iplan on improving the accuracy of the overall controller in the future.

Mini Development Projects 2024

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:00:00 -0400

Spider Inverse Kinematics

this is an experiment i made in unity using FABRIK inverse kinematics. Someday I’d like to improve on this system and use it somewhere in an game. https://github.com/Ethan-Mulwee/Inverse-Kinematics-Experiments/tree/main

Raymarching

I was learning how to make a basic application that could draw things with OpenGL using GLFW and C++. To have some fun with it I work some raymarching shaders for it.

The Mandelbulb

Infinite Spheres

Falling Sand (Raylib)

This was one of my first C++ projects, raylib was great for learning as it’s such a simple and easy to use library that makes coding very fun.

CCGJ Trophies

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:00:00 -0400

Camel City Game Jam is an annual game jam for high school students. I created these three trophy models from the event with the help of concept art and ideas provided by other students. I then helped with the printing and assembly of the trophy models.

https://camelcitygamejam.com/

Procedual Pies

Sun, 21 Apr 2024 10:00:00 -0400

Just a fun little project calling back to Nodevember 2020 when I made a pumpkin pie vector displacement shader. You can get the project file for free on gumroad https://vortexthebreadman.gumroad.com/l/gqgcs

Reference Pies

I baked some actual pies as well.

Ambush - Minecraft Wallpaper

Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:00:00 -0400

diffuse pass

edge pass

curvature pass

alternative more monochromatic blue lantern version

Six Sided Sustainability

Fri, 18 Aug 2023 10:00:00 -0400

Six Sided Sustainabilty was a group project made by me and a couple other students for the annual Games for Change Student Challenge in 2024. It was our first Unity game project and for me my first experience with programming. I served as the modeler and tech artist for the project creating the island assets models and procedural generation system. The game placed as a regional finalist. Technical Details I prototyped the island generation system using blender’s geometry nodes and translated the system into Unity’s C#. I made use of Perlin noise to shape the island and to create a smoothed shoreline texture and water gradient in shader. Later in the project I added a compute shader with hexagon SDFs to compute a more accurate shoreline texture. However this had to be cut for the webGL build as webGL doesn’t support compute shaders (I’ve yet to see if this is fixed with webGPU).

Smith & Wesson Model 10

Fri, 18 Aug 2023 10:00:00 -0400

13k triangles, 2 4k texture sets. Modeled and unwrapped with Blender Textured with Substance Painter This project was my first time using substance painter. There are a few mistakes still present in the model and I’m not completely happy with the texturing but I’m overall satisfied with the result.

Legends of Dimensions

Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:00:00 -0400

A keyart created for a Minecraft marketplace team Panascais. Created almost entirely within blender through use of shaders, render layers, and compositing.

Iterations

Minecraft Living Room Loop

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0400

A small personal project made based on a build by crispytwig: https://x.com/thecrispytwig/status/1782657685445398529 With this project I tried to capture the feeling of being inside in late evening or early morning with rain or foggy weather outside.

Raygun (WIP)

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0400

Bread Physics (WIP)

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0400

Bread physics is a little unfinished physics engine experiment I made based on cyclone engine from the book Game Physics Engine Development inspired in part by Seth bling. I made this project while I was still very much learning C++ and how to handle graphics. I’d like to finish it sometime but I’d likely largely rewrite it before doing so. https://github.com/Ethan-Mulwee/Bread-Physics

for more details about experiments leading up to bread physics see Physics-Experiments

Physics Experiments

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 10:00:00 -0400

These are experiments I made leading up to the development of Bread Physics. Also helped a lot in making my math library Bread Math

2D line segment intersection math

Ray plane intersection

Barycentric coordinates

Triangle bounds

Ray triangle intersection math

Figuring out quaternion rotation

Figuring out change of basis

Conquest of Fornia

Fri, 18 Aug 2023 10:00:00 -0400

Conqest of Fornia is a board game made by a team of me and other students in high school. It’s a resource management stargety game where the goals is to acquire as much land as possible to win the game. It was a lot of fun to make and I learned a lot while making it.

During playtesting a lot of players had a difficult time understanding the game due to the ruleset not being simple enough. I think this hurt the game mechanically as well as the game did not have a very great or interesting core idea but rather split itself between multiple ideas like the market and the island; which failed to create a mechanical greater than the sum of it’s parts.

The Wilds

Fri, 18 Aug 2023 10:00:00 -0400

Technical breakdown

Tunic Fox

Fri, 18 Aug 2023 10:00:00 -0400