Shao-Hsuan Chen Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

New York, United States

Work full-time as a CG generalist/Render TD for Hornet Studio. As a CG generalist, I’m mainly responsible for look dev, VFX and lighting on a variety of of CG projects. As a render TD, I manage the render tasks on our local render farm and AWS Cloud Compute Service to make sure the delivery of projects. I also help the studio team with troubleshooting different kinds of rendering/pipeline issues.

New York, United States

Worked on multiple Hornet CG projects as a freelancer. Jobs include creating lighting setup and CG renders, compositing, and generating FX asset.

New York, United States

• Look Dev: Created textures/shaders for 3D environments using Maya/Substance Painter. Applied shaders to the models procedurally to accommodate creative flexibility for the clients and directors• Modeling: Create hard surface models with high quality topo and UV layouts. Assisted with procedural environment modeling in Houdini• FX: Generated FX resources (smoke/droplets/flying leaves/debris/fabrics) for project demands using Houdini/Maya. Developed pipelines to integrate VDB caches… Show more • Look Dev: Created textures/shaders for 3D environments using Maya/Substance Painter. Applied shaders to the models procedurally to accommodate creative flexibility for the clients and directors• Modeling: Create hard surface models with high quality topo and UV layouts. Assisted with procedural environment modeling in Houdini• FX: Generated FX resources (smoke/droplets/flying leaves/debris/fabrics) for project demands using Houdini/Maya. Developed pipelines to integrate VDB caches from Houdini to Maya for final render.• Scripting: Composed multiple tools in Maya/Houdini with Python and VEX. These tools can automatically randomize UDIM shells and integrate shading networks in Maya to improve work efficiency for the production team.• Pipeline: Maintained and archived the production assets in the resource library. Developed and tested the updates of the in-house pipeline software.• Teamwork: Collaborated directly with the CG lead and art directors on 5 different projects. Worked closely with the modelers, animators and lighters and provided creative solutions to challenges. Show less

Savannah, Georgia, United States

Working as a teaching assistant in class of lighting and rendering using Maya, Blender, and Unreal. Mainly lecture about stylized lighting and rendering techniques.

Savannah, Georgia, United States

Participated in SCAD Animation Studios’ student film “Bearly”. Worked closely with the lighting team as lighting artist and developed rendering scripts for Katana.

Taipei City, Taiwan

Collaborated directly with NCCU Programming Languages and Software Methodology Lab. Studied the data and statistics of university, organized information and visualized it with webpage design.

Taipei City, Taiwan

Laid out of six main pages and iOS Apps .Designed main visual logo, and image for activities.

Taipei City, Taiwan

Worked at Mobile Computing and Network Communications Lab.Researched on the messaging and application between iBeacon and wearable devices.

Taipei City, Taiwan

Worked at NCCU CS Student Association 2014 CS Camp: Director of Art and Internet Promotion2013 CS Camp: Team Counselor2013 CS Night: Director of Promotion Micro Film.

Taipei City, Taiwan

Received two-month Dale Carnegie Training for Teens and invited as counselor.

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Animation, Gpa 4.0

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: NCCU CS Student Association

High School Diploma