Shades of Orange is about sharing ressources that people found essential learning Houdini and also sharing my own projects and techniques that helped me create them.
About me
I’m very passionate about tech involving procedural and automation tools which are blurring the line between tech and art. I have experience in a wide range of topics regarding computer graphics, computer science and UX to develop workflows and software that suit the needs of productions.
Knowledge sharing and leadership are very important to me to achieve goals together.
I am currently the organizer of the Frankfurt Houdini User group and a Houdini/Technical Art teacher at the University of applied sciences Darmstadt. I like bringing people together to achieve goals everyone believes in.
I am currently interested in Machine Learning, USD & Proceduralism
Contact
I hope you found some of my content useful. If you have any questions, or just want so say Hi, feel free to get in touch. I am always willing to share. Also if you have any suggestions on what is missing, or someone would appreciate finding on a site like this, please let me know.
Resume
Senior Technical Artist
- Shipped award winning Alan Wake 2 as a part of the VFX & Technical Art teams
- Worked on multiple VFX runtime systems & effects of Alan Wake 2
- Optimized various aspects of the VFX related work in AW2
- Maintained and expanded diverse aspects of the VFX pipelines
Houdini Instructor & Lecturer
Lecturer of a Houdini course for 5+ years at the Hochschule Darmstadt
Goal: Help Students with any level of Houdini experience to achive a project they have in mind and lies within scope of the course.
Acting Lead Technical Artist
- Lead development, communication and management of a team of Technical Artists working on multiple AAA games
- Headed initiatives to move towards open source software like USD, MaterialX & rez
- Directed procedural content creation workflows for topics like destruction
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- Introduced more efficient & collaborative workflows within the Technical Art team
- Represented Crytek at conferences like SIGGRAPH
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Senior Technical Artist
- Developed a range of workflow enhancing toolsets within DCCs like Houdini, CRYENGINE, Blender, 3dsMax, Maya & Substance
- Created tools for procedural generation of content
- Lead development, communication and management of the Environment Tech Art department
- Developed a rez based development pipeline
- Created UX focused UIs using PySide
- Lead Photogrammetry Automation workflows using Reality Capture & Houdini
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- Integrated ML based tools for content creation
- Created modular asset assembly workflows
- Provided thorough documentation and presentations for newly developed and integrated systems
- Worked on Tools integrating P4, Confluence and Jira
- Flexibly developed scripts/tools to meet demands of production
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Character FX Artist
- Worked on numerous Character Effects including Cloth, Hair and complex Collisions
- Created tools to automate the review process of Character FX
- Worked on a PDG integration for a inhouse Rendermanagement Software
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- Proactively developed procedural Character Effects toolsets for future projects
- Collborated with different departments to track down USD related issues
- Held presentations for artists/supervisor of different tools created
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FX TD
- Developed FX toolsets to produce various different effects
- Created diverse geometry, particle and vollume effects
- Lead communication for overhaul of global FX Pipeline
- Oversaw a team of FX Artists from time to time
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- Provided technical and artistic training and support for the whole FX department
- Evaluated software for our department
- Developed front end centric tools
- Flexibly developed scripts to meet demands of production
- Worked with git and rez to configure and maintain exisiting and new packages
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Intermediate FX TD
- Worked closely together with a team of artists and my supervisor/lead to create tools needed for new challenges
- Maintained and developed tools for a large VFX pipeline
- Adjusted and optimized existing tools/workflows to enhance speed, features and user experience
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- Provided training and presentations for newly developed tools
- Developed tools for USD integration within DCCs and the pipeline itsself
- Redesigned the front end of a large existing CFX rig
- Worked on tools involving renderfarm integration
- Worked together with SideFX on implementing new features for Houdini
- Supported a whole team of FX artists as the only FX TD on a Marvel production
- Worked on shots as projects came to an end to help my artists meet their deadlines
- Flexibly developed scripts for one-off immediate issues and artist requests
- Worked with rez for package configuration of new and existing tools
- Used git to contribute to a large code database
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Houdini FX Intern
- Worked on a range of different FX including: Smoke, RBD, Fog, Rain, CartoonFX, Sparks, and many more
- Developed the look on my FX while working closely together with my supervisor and the director
- Developed procedural FX tools used by Artists for multiple sequences
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- Managed the exchange of FX data to be delivered to another studio
- Automated workflows for different production steps
- Developed different tools for new challanges that arised for colleagues
- Enhanced existing FX tools for richer feature-sets and better user experience
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