Jeff Hesser

For over 15 years, Jeff Hesser worked on video games like Rock Band and Fortnite Festival at Harmonix and then Epic Games as a 3D Art Generalist with a focus on Gameplay/Interaction Prototypes and Environment Art/Level Design. Jeff is also an accomplished figure sculptor, and his sculptures have been featured in exhibitions at the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, the Dahesh Museum, the National Sculpture Society and the Parrish Art Museum. In addition to his work as an artist, Jeff has more than a decade of experience as a teacher and received the Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design. Over the past decade of GDC's Jeff has brought together his background as a game dev, teacher and sculptor to give talks and run roundtables on effective ways to give and receive feedback. He now runs workshops at schools and companies on this topic. In GDC summits, he's delivered talks about innovative ways to create gaze-reactive UI in virtual reality (V