Alan Wake II
QuiltiX
Crysis 4 (Working Title)
Houdini ML digit recognition
Scatter Matter
🎨 Texture Synthesis Houdini
Prism USD Pipeline
🦴 HRigNet
Crysis Remastered
Peter Rabbit 2
Midway
Captain Marvel
The LEGO Movie 2
Doctor Strange
Notion
Reflection
Senior Pipeline Engineer
- Ported all Houdini pipelines to be part of a versioned and dependency managed environment
- Worked on our internal USD stack including an Asset Resolver, Python bindings, File format plugin etc
- Key driver for procedural workflows in our future games
- Implemented USD based data exchange between Northlight & DCCs
- Overhauled Houdini Digital Asset management systems
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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