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Acting Lead Technical Artist

Crytek GmbH
Crysis 4

May 2022 – Present
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse

  • 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

Crytek GmbH
Crysis Remastered, Crysis 4

Apr 2020 – Apr 2022
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse

  • 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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Houdini Instructor & Lecturer

Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
“Bring your projects to life using Houdini”

Jan 2020/21/22 • 1 mo
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse

Goal: Help Students with any level of Houdini experience to achive a project they have in mind and lies within scope of the course.

Character FX Artist

Animal Logic
Peter Rabbit 2

Sep 2019 – Dec 2019
Sydney Australia

  • 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

Pixomondo
Midway

Jan 2019 – Aug 2019
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse

  • 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

Animal Logic
Captain Marvel, The LEGO Movie 2

Jun 2018 – Dec 2018
Sydney, Australia

  • 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

RISE | Visual Effects Studios
Doctor Strange, A Stork’s Journey

Apr 2016 – Sep 2016
Berlin, Germany

  • 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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