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Founded in 1995, Image Engine is a world-class visual effects studio based in Vancouver, BC, specializing in photoreal VFX for feature films and television.

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FX Supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic

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Specialties: VFX / Compositing / Digital Imaging Pipeline / R&D / All-Round 3D

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As a Solution Engineer, and now Director of Creative Solutions, I have met and engaged with many amazing animation, games, and vfx studios, and have been part of the feedback process of product development for many complex artist’s tools. As a solo content creator, using pre-alpha software, often with no manuals and no oversight, I design and create compelling projects that act as marketing content, can be converted into presentation materials for my talks at GDC and SIGGRAPH, and are commonly featured in the company keynote. But more over, the projects I create are directly related to technical advances in CGI and how they can be applied to studio workflow. And the feedback gained through long conversations with experts across the creative industries, has a deep reach back to the tool design/experience process and the product/engineering teams. One of the best parts of all of this is learning and using such a wide variety of new tools to make art, while being able to collaborate with the incredible technical minds from the product and engineering teams to help create amazing things together. It is both creatively rewarding and highly impactful. I have a background of 25 years as a 3D generalist and Sr. Character Technical Director in the VFX Film & Feature Animation industries, working on many VFX films like ‘Dawn of the Dead’ and ‘District 9’ and animated features like ‘Rio’, ‘Ice Age’, ‘The Peanuts Film’ and ‘Spies in Disguise’. In addition I've spent the last 3 years doing solutions work and solo content creation, in the professional art/games software industry. If you love creating amazingly cool things, let’s connect. Here is some of my work: GDC 2025 talk on Kitbashing Generative AI: https://youtu.be/adyLjE14Ilg?si=MStWTO1L3-ruNcqA Feature Animation Rigging Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1p7z_toON8 Solutions Eng / Character Generalist Reel (internal tools ,workflow creation etc.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5fHDaFU7lQ Simulation and Machine learning focused GDC talk for stylized characters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz_apyLROgc

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Office Support (OSB, OFA2) at Vancouver School Board

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www.wuyangwayne.com - I am Houdini FX Artist. Creating Effects and Simulations have always been my passion, and it is a delight to do it as my daily work. I am very familiar in Pyro, FLIP and Particle simulations, and have created my own custom micro solver inside DOP Network to suit my needs. I graduated Savannah College of Art and Design(SCAD) with Master of Fine Art degree in Visual Effects in 2016. Since then I have been working in Vancouver for feature film and TV series.

Paul George Savluc

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Robotics Platforms & Medical Software Engineering | AI, Robotics, Digital Twins, Electronics & Business Development

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CORE SKILLS • CG lighting as Senior Artist and Lead: Vray, Arnold, PrMan, Clarisse, Mantra, Redshift in Katana, Houdini, 3dsMax, Clarisse and Maya. • CG lookdev and procedural texturing: Houdini, Katana, 3dsMax, Clarisse and Maya • Texture painting: Mari, Photoshop, Substance Painter. • Technical Development and Documenting of tools: Python, Houdini VEX, node based and bash/tcsh • Leading and mentoring: Artist teams and students • Environments as CG Generalist: modelling, layout, camera, through to lit render and comp.