Life is magical. It's easier to observe when we're young, but our entire world is filled with impossible delights. When I was five, I knew that I would be a magician. Interesting characters, fascinating technologies, and mysteries abound!Life is full of wonder. We age. We begin to question the origin of magic. Craving knowledge, I sought to answer those questions by inventing my own worlds and characters. I knew in my heart I would eventually become a writer.Life evolves. Reality hits. Investigation and tinkering take priority over imagination. That's when I knew I would attend college to study computer science.Life is strange. Over the course of my career, I have become an investigator--cracking technological cases. I became a storyteller--weaving intricate narratives and crafting engaging experiences. Most importantly, though, I finally became a magician--tricking others into believing the impossible.Life is amusing. I could have written about my ability to develop software, build robust development pipelines suited for efficient throughput, and engage with my peers to develop immersive interactive content, but that wouldn't have been as interesting. I thrive on gathering technological knowledge and using it to create magical, narrative experiences for a modern age!Specialties:► Technical art (technical animation, game optimization, pipeline and automation, procedural cinematics, character rigging)► SideFX Houdini (Pipeline integration, procedural content generation, PDG)► Photogrammetry, 3D Gaussian Splatting, NeRF, radiance fields, reality capture, volumetric capture, performance capture► Software development (C#, Python, design patterns, test-driven development, SOLID, 3D math)► Unity 3D (UI, Mecanim, editor scripting, tool development, asset management)► Unreal Engine (Sequencer, motion matching, python API, editor extensions)► Autodesk Maya (MEL, Python, pipeline integration, plugin development)► Game design with an emphasis on innovative mechanics and emerging technologies (AR, VR, gesture controls, emergent gameplay)I developed Gaussian Splat Operators (GSOPs) for SideFX Houdini: https://github.com/david-rhodes/GSOPs, which won 3rd place in the H20 SIDEFX LABS Tech Art Challenge.