Oliver Kirchhoff

I'm a VFX nomad, and I love it! My profession gives me the opportunity to not just travel to different countries like a tourist, but actually live there and socialize with the people. It enriches my life. I have 28 years of 3d experience. The first 8 years were focused on 3d CAD and 3d simulation for the metal manufacturing industry. My customers have been industry giants like BMW, Siemens, ABB, Kuka, etc.For the last 20 years, I worked for the Visual Effects industry doing the visual effects for tv shows, feature film, and commercials. About 9 years of those 20 years happened outside of my home country Germany.Flexibility is one of my strengths. I can be a team leader, an artist, a mentor, a developer, or a production coordinator.In those years, I mastered many skills and tools. Maya: Generalist, Shading, Lighting, Rendering, Rigging, Dynamics, Mel, Python, R&D, Pipeline & FX 3dequalizer: Camera and Object Tracking, Motion Capturing, Stereoscopic, Python Houdini: Procedural modeling, Dynamics (particles, fluids, and rigid body), Volumes and Voxels, Heightfield terrains, Tool development, Crowd simulations, Solaris/USD EpicGames Unreal: Level design, Shader development, Niagara, BluePrint development, VR, Virtual Production Additional skills: Zeno, Nuke, ZBrush, Reality Capture, 3ds Max, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Fusion, Photoshop, SolidWorks, Inventor, Sketchup, Massive Crowd, MathCAD, Mathematica, MS Office, ...