resume
(march 2004)
- 2 years at Weta Digital, New Zealand -
LOTR:The
Return of the King, creating procedural lava
LOTR:The
Two Towers, creating procedural water, fire and smoke
- 4 years at Alias|wavefront, mainly as a Maya product specialist -
- 4 years of engineering studies at Ghent University -
- Latin/Greek studies at high school -
- strengths -
Maya scripting
Renderman Shading
using any node-based architecture
maths/physics
- data -
Tom Kluyskens
Theresianenstraat 12, 9000 Gent, BELGIUM
+32 477 39 30 97
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- Two Towers -
wrote a Maya to Shake system for averageing 2K hardware rendered images into motionblurred fire and smoke layers,
and rendered many of those layers
built a sprite-based flooding system based on filmed water textures and Maya fluids to fill huge areas with wild water
inserted background 'cycs', replaced skies and environments with correct parallax for sweeping camera moves
helped speeding up the Gollum facial system for higher interactivity and better control over his facial expression
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- ROTK -
integration of multi-layered animated mattepaintings and 3d objects
in environments with tricky parallax and heavy camera motion
prepared the lava particle simulations for the Gollum drop and Mt Doom eruption,
using animated and static collision objects,
outputting particle and poly data for rendering
coordinated the development of 3rd party fluid simulation software against tight deadlines,
bringing the feature set a full version further
enabling the software to handle millions of particles and very heavy poly sets
built the poly set -> renderman pipeline, including the pioneering procedural shaders :
UV texture bombing shader dragged along the polyset by the underlying particles,
morphed and shaded according to particle behaviour and attributes