01 Living title · orbital
Technical Art Director · AAA, XR & Interactive
I turn ambitious visuals into shippable systems—aligning teams, pipelines and real-time craft from concept to launch.
02 Living title · signal
Technical Art Director · Systems & Teams
I align creative ambition, graphics technology and production teams—then build the systems that make quality repeatable.
03 Career constellation
DAVID BERENGUER · Technical Art Director connecting visual ambition, technology and teams across AAA, XR and interactive work.
04 Capability flow
Technical Art Director · Team Builder · Hands-on VFX
I turn visual ambition into scalable production—defining direction, de-risking technology and helping teams ship at quality.
05 Art × technology
Technical Art Director · Microsoft · Electronic Arts · AAA → XR
Selected work
Five case studies showing how I turn visual ambition into shipped systems—from Fable and Frostbite to Quest-scale fitness and social VR.
Fable Legends: scaling a distinctive world for AAA production.
Unreal · Ubershaders · Profiling · LOD pipelines
Most Wanted: real-time cinematic tools built for speed.
Frostbite · Maya/QT tools · Trailer shots · Workflows
FitXR: building the technical-art function for Quest.
3-year roadmap · Team building · VFX · Performance
Facebook onboarding: performant VFX for social VR.
URP · Vulkan · Ubershaders · Quest optimisation
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Most Wanted: crafting the E3 reveal in real time.
Frostbite · Cinematic pipeline · Trailer delivery · Real-time polish
Leadership impact
I work between creative direction and production reality—setting the target, proving the technology and building the team systems that carry quality to launch.
At FitXR, translated product ambition into three-year and one-year technical-art plans, hiring priorities and measurable production goals.
Built profiling, rendering, animation and content pipelines across AAA, mobile and Quest so visual standards survive platform and schedule pressure.
Built, hired and mentored technical artists and VFX specialists while making collaboration between art, design, engineering and production natural.
Recent experience
Seven roles trace a career spanning AAA studios, team and department growth, XR platforms and current museum-scale interactive systems.
Artistico · Remote
Directing high-fidelity prototypes and a Saudi museum exhibit from concept to on-site deployment across 52″ displays, custom shaders, meshes and VFX.
XR Workout · Remote
Led VR art and introduced AI-assisted skydome generation, Unity Editor tools, VFX and production workflows for varied, performant environments.
FitXR · Remote
Built and hired the technical-art and VFX team, defined three-year strategy, and drove shaders, pipelines and performance for standalone VR.
Immerse VR · Remote
Migrated projects to URP and Vulkan for Quest; delivered Ubershaders, transition VFX and performance optimisation for Facebook and Nespresso work.
Rossie Reality · Remote
Built the technical-art and VFX function for immersive productions—HDRP pipelines, Ubershaders, artist tools, training and mobile optimisation.
Microsoft · Lionhead Studios
Led and mentored technical artists while building Xbox profiling, rendering, Ubershader and LOD pipelines for Fable Legends production.
Electronic Arts · Criterion Games
Built real-time Maya/QT cinematic and debug tools, established production workflows, and created trailer shots for Most Wanted and Rivals.
Capabilities
Visual strategy · Department roadmaps · Hiring · Mentoring · Stakeholder alignment · Cross-discipline delivery
Rendering strategy · Performance budgets · Pipeline design · Artist tools · Automation · AI-assisted workflows
HLSL shaders · VFX · Unity and Unreal · Lighting · Profiling · Prototyping · Real-time troubleshooting
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I bring executive-level direction, production systems and shader-level craft to technical-art leadership, art direction and advisory work across games, XR and interactive experiences.