John W.
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Guillaume Cerdan
John is one of the most skilled and passionated Houdini artist I had a blast working with. His past experiences in the VFX industry were definitly a great fundation for his Technical Artist role in videogames. He not only brillantly succeded in taking over one of the most challenging tech art feature of the game, but he did so with an incredible mindset and invested a lot of energy to make our creatives' dreams come true. The results are already awesome and I can't wait to see what he will deliver in the final product. John is definitly a Tech Artist I'm looking forward to work with again, and if you have the chance to do so, do not hesitate one more sec, you won't regret it :)
Frederic Hamel
John is the most passionate Houdini specialist I know - there is no doubt about it. He is always looking for ways to help people get their work done, finding opportunities to accelerate production workflows at all stages of the pipeline. He goes where is needed to provide end-to-end implementations, for example scripting in python or writing Unity C# code when circumstances call for it. At Behaviour, he created innovative tools in the fields of level design, level generation, procedural modelling, visual effects, automation, and much more. He championed Houdini within the company and multiplied the speed of its adoption by mentoring newcomers, giving internal presentations about the software's capabilities, and making a tremendous number of contacts across teams. He is self-starting and extremely hard-working; his initiative even led him to host a very well-received meetup of the Montreal Houdini Users Group. If your group has anything to do with Houdini, or you simply suspect Houdini might help you get your work done better and faster, John is the guy you need to help realize your vision!
Guillaume Cerdan
John is one of the most skilled and passionated Houdini artist I had a blast working with. His past experiences in the VFX industry were definitly a great fundation for his Technical Artist role in videogames. He not only brillantly succeded in taking over one of the most challenging tech art feature of the game, but he did so with an incredible mindset and invested a lot of energy to make our creatives' dreams come true. The results are already awesome and I can't wait to see what he will deliver in the final product. John is definitly a Tech Artist I'm looking forward to work with again, and if you have the chance to do so, do not hesitate one more sec, you won't regret it :)
Frederic Hamel
John is the most passionate Houdini specialist I know - there is no doubt about it. He is always looking for ways to help people get their work done, finding opportunities to accelerate production workflows at all stages of the pipeline. He goes where is needed to provide end-to-end implementations, for example scripting in python or writing Unity C# code when circumstances call for it. At Behaviour, he created innovative tools in the fields of level design, level generation, procedural modelling, visual effects, automation, and much more. He championed Houdini within the company and multiplied the speed of its adoption by mentoring newcomers, giving internal presentations about the software's capabilities, and making a tremendous number of contacts across teams. He is self-starting and extremely hard-working; his initiative even led him to host a very well-received meetup of the Montreal Houdini Users Group. If your group has anything to do with Houdini, or you simply suspect Houdini might help you get your work done better and faster, John is the guy you need to help realize your vision!
Guillaume Cerdan
John is one of the most skilled and passionated Houdini artist I had a blast working with. His past experiences in the VFX industry were definitly a great fundation for his Technical Artist role in videogames. He not only brillantly succeded in taking over one of the most challenging tech art feature of the game, but he did so with an incredible mindset and invested a lot of energy to make our creatives' dreams come true. The results are already awesome and I can't wait to see what he will deliver in the final product. John is definitly a Tech Artist I'm looking forward to work with again, and if you have the chance to do so, do not hesitate one more sec, you won't regret it :)
Frederic Hamel
John is the most passionate Houdini specialist I know - there is no doubt about it. He is always looking for ways to help people get their work done, finding opportunities to accelerate production workflows at all stages of the pipeline. He goes where is needed to provide end-to-end implementations, for example scripting in python or writing Unity C# code when circumstances call for it. At Behaviour, he created innovative tools in the fields of level design, level generation, procedural modelling, visual effects, automation, and much more. He championed Houdini within the company and multiplied the speed of its adoption by mentoring newcomers, giving internal presentations about the software's capabilities, and making a tremendous number of contacts across teams. He is self-starting and extremely hard-working; his initiative even led him to host a very well-received meetup of the Montreal Houdini Users Group. If your group has anything to do with Houdini, or you simply suspect Houdini might help you get your work done better and faster, John is the guy you need to help realize your vision!
Guillaume Cerdan
John is one of the most skilled and passionated Houdini artist I had a blast working with. His past experiences in the VFX industry were definitly a great fundation for his Technical Artist role in videogames. He not only brillantly succeded in taking over one of the most challenging tech art feature of the game, but he did so with an incredible mindset and invested a lot of energy to make our creatives' dreams come true. The results are already awesome and I can't wait to see what he will deliver in the final product. John is definitly a Tech Artist I'm looking forward to work with again, and if you have the chance to do so, do not hesitate one more sec, you won't regret it :)
Frederic Hamel
John is the most passionate Houdini specialist I know - there is no doubt about it. He is always looking for ways to help people get their work done, finding opportunities to accelerate production workflows at all stages of the pipeline. He goes where is needed to provide end-to-end implementations, for example scripting in python or writing Unity C# code when circumstances call for it. At Behaviour, he created innovative tools in the fields of level design, level generation, procedural modelling, visual effects, automation, and much more. He championed Houdini within the company and multiplied the speed of its adoption by mentoring newcomers, giving internal presentations about the software's capabilities, and making a tremendous number of contacts across teams. He is self-starting and extremely hard-working; his initiative even led him to host a very well-received meetup of the Montreal Houdini Users Group. If your group has anything to do with Houdini, or you simply suspect Houdini might help you get your work done better and faster, John is the guy you need to help realize your vision!
Experience
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Romero Games Ltd.
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Ireland
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Computer Games
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Technical Artist
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Apr 2023 - Present
Senior Technical Artist at Romero Games Senior Technical Artist at Romero Games
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Ubisoft Montréal
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Canada
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Computer Games
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Technical Artist
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Apr 2022 - Apr 2023
Working on the Anvil Game Engine Pipeline (Procedural + Open World)
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Technical Artist
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Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
Feature owner on the majority of Houdini / Procedural related work and tech for Rainbow Six Extraction.Houdini / Procedural expert on the production.
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VFX Artist
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Mar 2020 - Oct 2020
Working directly with the Tech Art team on all major Houdini / Procedural features and workflows for Rainbow Six Extraction. Prototyping new VFX and Tech Art workflows as part of production R&D efforts.
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Behaviour Interactive
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Canada
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Computer Games
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700 & Above Employee
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Technical Artist
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Sep 2018 - Jan 2020
Responsible for developing in-house tools for Artists and Game Designers to facilitate their day-to-day production tasks. Specialised in Houdini-based Procedural Modelling, Procedural Level Generation and VFX Tools.Houdini expert across the company supporting and working directly with numerous productions.Consulting regularly with Directors, Producers, Leads and other senior colleagues to ensure best practices across projects and to solve Houdini-related issues for them.Extensive experience creating tools and solving issues using Python, C# (Unity) and VEX.Working directly on most of the company's prototypes before they enter pre-production. Gameplay programming and game design experience from having these responsibilities while working on the prototypes. Helping to validate which prototypes are fun, technically feasible and marketable before they enter pre-production. Show less
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Development Tester
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Nov 2017 - Aug 2018
Dev QA on an MMO title. Tested primarily for performance and network functionality.
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Laboratoires de Test Enzyme - Enzyme Testing Labs
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Montreal, Canada Area
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Quality Assurance Tester
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Dec 2016 - Oct 2017
Working at the Warner Bros. Games Montreal office, tested AAA games such as Injustice 2 and Middle earth: Shadow of War, as an Enzyme consultant. Recognised for entering numerous high priority, well investigated issues. Working at the Warner Bros. Games Montreal office, tested AAA games such as Injustice 2 and Middle earth: Shadow of War, as an Enzyme consultant. Recognised for entering numerous high priority, well investigated issues.
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Atomic Fiction
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Canada
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Movies, Videos, and Sound
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1 - 100 Employee
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Render Wrangler
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May 2016 - Aug 2016
Provided maintenance for the render farm at Atomic Fiction in coordination with production, VFX and IT departments. Provided maintenance for the render farm at Atomic Fiction in coordination with production, VFX and IT departments.
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Education
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2008 - 2010
John Abbott College
D.E.C, Science
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