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Wellington, Nz

Wellington, New Zealand

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Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Team lead of our visual programming execution framework "Koru" and ecosystem of GPU accelerated plugins used predominantly in Virtual Production, Layout and Animation workflows. Currently partnering with the Motion & Assets realms to unlock real-time performance in Maya based workflows by accelerating our high-fidelity Facial assets. Responsibilities include providing mentorship, engaging with stakeholders, and architecting artist-focused solutions.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

- Collaborated with Lookdev R&D to convert legacy shader networks to new Solaris and USD based format. Introduced regression testing. - Collaborated with Motion R&D on streamlining build & CI across 125+ projects.- Designed a library to reduce software versionitis in build scripts across 100+ C++ projects.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

- Domain expert on USD prim adapters when Weta was beginning its OpenUSD integration efforts back in 2019. I set-up examples and infrastructure for our core USD extensions project which is still a key component today. I led an investigation to re-imagine our Animation workflow & pipeline to leverage USD instead of custom in-house formats.- Ported OpenGL shader deformation pipeline to CUDA-based one. Increased skinning performance by 20%- Rewrote the C++ and python API layers and code generation logic in our evaluation framework- Designed solution for on-demand rigging of vegetation assets within our custom scene runtime “Atlas”- Collaborated with Shots R&D FX on improving houdini tools & pipeline processes

Shanghai City, China

- Built a web-based front-end for visualizing and debugging relational data in our asset version control system. The data is presented as a interactive node graph where users can drag, drop, focus, and expand/collapse. Initially implemented using raw javascript and manipulation of DOM elements, then my supervisor introduced me to D3js. Illustrated by the following example: https://moddyz.github.io/dragdroppanzoom/- Built a Qt-based desktop application for artists to manage their tasks.

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

- Research, develop & demo technical solutions to drive the sales of Autostereoscopic TV & tablets- Built a VLC plugin using ARB shader language for interleaving stereoscopic multi-view. - Built a real-time CUDA implementation to calculate intermediate views of stereo input, based on an existing paper. Prototyped the initial version via MATLAB.- Set-up an end-to-end 2D to 3D conversion artist workflow.- Built a multi-view camera rig in Unity game engine with code generated shader to interleave views for an auto-stereoscopic target

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

- iOS game development using Cocos2d engine- 2D character animation using Illustrator

- Started as a render wrangler doing pre-comp and quality check before moving on to compositing shots

Computer Software Engineering

Completed CS50 and Computer Architecture courses

Computer Software Engineering

Took the Intro to Programming Course, Intermediate Programming in Java, and C++.

Certificate, Digital Animation