Julian Güpner

Adapted to new processes for building race track environments quickly, creating two tracks in Unreal Engine. Generated assets in Blender and Photoshop. Managed technical tasks in Unreal Engine, implemented gameplay elements, tested internal tools to improve functionality. Resolved both artistic and technical issues. Contributed to new 3D pipeline development and documentation for internal and outsourced work, assessing production timelines, reviewing outsourced assets. Mentored junior artists.

Conducting thorough evaluations of assets, to ensure quality and adherence to technical specifications. Generating high-quality proxy and high-res assets Investigating and resolving asset complications, optimize asset performance and functionality. Coordinating with outsourcing team, including internal animation, character, layout, and mocap teams. Facilitating effective communication, addressing issues, and providing detailed notes and files.

Created hard surface, organic, character and environment assets using Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter and Substance Designer. Created cloth and hair simulations using Maya. Scene setup, lighting, rendering, crowd setup, importing geometry, textures, animation, hair in proprietary GritGene for Animation graphics engine. Testing GritGene performance, features, report bugs, give feedback. Unreal Engine scene conversion to GrigGene.

Importing CAD assets, Material creation, Lighting and Rendering of various assets, using Cinema 4D and Redshift. Final image compositing using Photoshop.

Reviewed and evaluated hundreds of environment and character assets, set dressing for shots, communicated clear, detailed feedback to vendors, ensuring technical and artistic accuracy in final deliveries Created character, vehicle and mechanical previz rigs for 3d story team Investigated and solved wide variety of technical and artistic asset complications on daily basis

Reviewed and evaluated hundreds of environment and character assets, set dressing for shots, communicated clear, detailed feedback to vendors, ensuring technical and artistic accuracy in final deliveries Created character, vehicle and mechanical previz rigs for 3d story team Investigated and solved wide variety of technical and artistic asset complications on daily basis

Modeling, Material creation, Lighting and Render Setup of hard surface assets, such as phones, tablets and architectural visualization, using Maya and VRay

Created hi-res and lo-res models, and baked appropriate texture maps

Modeled, textured and rigged props and environment assets using Maya, Substance Painter, ZBrush, Havok Physics and Photoshop for the social VR platform Sansar Created collision geometry using Havok and worked with Engineering and Render teams to test proprietary game engine

Created over 700 complex assets under aggressive bids that consistently met high aesthetic and technical standards for television series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Successfully took on the challenge of learning to create, teach and support layout rigs, rigging over 40 vehicles, and characters, responsible for same day turnarounds on new and urgent requests. Reviewed and ingested over 200 assets from overseas studios, determining aesthetic and technical quality, provided feedback when necessary.

Modeled and textured low-res and hi-res game assets using ZBrush, Maya, and Photoshop for the MMO Star Trek Online. Tested and provided feedback on modeling and texturing workflow and technical specifications for production pipeline with limited prior experience in game industry.

Built a complex digital model in Maya of a CSX 5000 freight train for the major motion picture Next. With little previous experience studied rigid body and particle effects in maya and provided compositor with falling rock and dust elements to be used in multiple shots for the feature film Wild Hogs. Modeled, textured, rigged, animated, and composited 3d Digital element into live action shot for the feature film Wild Hogs.