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I develop complete real-time projects using modern engines such as Unreal, Unity, and Godot, handling full workflows from asset integration to interactive systems. My work bridges art, design, and engineering to ensure cohesive, production-ready results.

Summary

Real-time engine development focuses on building interactive projects inside established engines, assembling systems, assets, logic, and presentation into a functional whole.

I work fluently across Unreal Engine, Unity, and Godot, executing full production workflows that integrate art, animation, UI, data, and gameplay systems. My background in both visual production and software engineering allows me to operate comfortably at the intersection of disciplines, ensuring that creative intent and technical structure align cleanly within real-time environments.

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Service Overview

I develop complete interactive projects inside modern real-time engines, assembling systems, assets, logic, and presentation into cohesive, production-ready experiences. This work focuses on execution within established engines — translating creative intent into functioning real-time systems with precision and reliability.

Integrated Engine Workflows

Real-time engine development requires more than technical familiarity. It demands an understanding of how art, animation, UI, logic, data, and performance constraints interact inside a live system.

My work benefits directly from a combined background in visual production and software engineering. I approach engine development with equal awareness of artistic requirements and technical realities, allowing systems to integrate cleanly rather than competing for priority.

Unreal Engine

I work extensively in Unreal Engine across full production pipelines, including asset integration, material and shader setup, animation systems, UI implementation, gameplay logic, data-driven systems, and performance-aware configuration.

This includes assembling complex scenes, managing real-time rendering features, coordinating interactive systems, and ensuring that art and logic operate together without friction.

Unity

In Unity, I develop interactive projects that balance flexibility and structure — integrating assets, scripting systems, UI, animation, and real-time behaviors into maintainable, production-oriented workflows.

My approach emphasizes clarity of structure, predictable behavior, and scalability, allowing projects to evolve without accumulating technical debt.

Godot

I work fluently in Godot for both creative and technical real-time development. This includes scene architecture, scripting, animation integration, UI systems, and custom tooling within the engine’s framework.

Godot’s flexibility allows for rapid iteration and expressive systems, and I leverage this to build clean, readable projects that remain structurally sound as they grow.

Engine-Agnostic Adaptability

While I maintain deep mastery of Unreal, Unity, and Godot, my real-time engine experience is not tied to any single platform.

Because my understanding is grounded in first principles — rendering pipelines, scene graphs, asset lifecycles, animation systems, data flow, and interaction logic — I can transition quickly into proprietary or niche engines. The underlying concepts transfer, allowing me to become productive in new environments without friction.

Art–Engineering Alignment

A defining strength of my real-time engine work is the ability to align artistic vision with technical execution.

I understand how visual decisions affect performance, how technical constraints shape presentation, and how systems must be structured to support both. This allows projects to move forward without the common disconnect between art and engineering, resulting in cohesive, stable, and expressive real-time experiences.

Provider

Alex Stevovich

Alex Stevovich is an independent polymath guided by a self-directed perspective. His projects focus on original content and innovation developed through discovery-driven work grounded in first-principles thinking.

Studio Banners

Fractal Bouquet

Fractal Bouquet is my studio for creative development across both real-time and rendered mediums. The work provides every layer needed to bring exceptional entertainment visuals and franchises to life. Each project is imbued with charm and charisma — uniting technical mastery with distinctive taste to produce concepts and experiences that are loved and timeless.

Beyond this creative work, I develop proprietary extensions and tools for modern pipelines and engines, and maintain a growing library of original IP and creative properties developed in-house under the Fractal Bouquet banner.

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