CONTACT

📞 t.me/cyberstranger_777

📩 [email protected]

🗺️ Saint-Petersburg, Russia

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$$ \Huge \textbf {Daniil Zviagintsev} \\ \small \textbf {Technical artist} $$

Hello there! I'm a Technical and Lookdev artist.

I have extensive experience in look developing characters, shading, lighting and collaborative workflows. I am passionate about learning, creating cinematics and beautiful art.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

June 2023 — February 2024

Technical artist | DeV.VP (Tallin, Estonia)

About the team

Production team grown up to 30 people. Unreal Engine department has grown to 8 members.

My responsibilities have shifted to setting up collaboration among several individuals on a single UE5 project. Additionally, I was involved in configuring interaction between different departments.

Responsibilities:

• Developing UE5 Project structure and asset management
• Management of Git repository for version control
• Technical consulting and mentoring
• Research and development of new workflows and tools
• Writing documentation for custom tools and pipeline management
• Scene Layout according to storyboard
• Lighting setup
• Camera animation
• Configuring rendering settings in UE5

Results

• Created a template project structure in UE5 for efficient collaboration among team members, utilizing Sublevel, Subsequences, and Level Streaming technologies
• Developed style guide (naming conventions) according to our tasks
• Trained 5 team members to use GIT
• Developed handy tools for repetitive tasks automation in UE5
• Successfully shipped 2 Previz projects for cinematic trailers of FPS game “Battle Hunter Royal” (over 200 Shots rendered)
• Successfully shipped 1 Previz project for shortfilm “Phoenix” (over 100 Shots rendered)

October 2022 — June 2023

Lookdev Artist | DeV.VP (Tallin, Estonia)

About the team

Production team 15 people. UE Department consisted of 3 people

Responsibilities:

• Look development of characters
• Metahuman customising (wrapping Metahuman topology on custom mesh, weight transfer, face joints transformations, DNA modifications)
• Basic rig creation for Metahuman inside Maya (Advanced Skeleton)
• Posing a character inside Maya
• Light rig creation
• Material creation in UE5
• Open USD integration into studio’s pipeline

Results

• Successfully shipped 12 Characters and 2 Creatures
• Participation in the formation of the studio's pipeline
• Successfully shipped Interactive digital avatar project
  • Assembled using Open USD for NVIDIA Omniverse
  • Animation ecosystem for real time interactive character
  • Real-time face animation based on AI generated text and NVIDIA Audio2Face technology

July 2021 — February 2022

UE Generalist | Planetarium 1 (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)

About the project

Audiovisual performance called "Eden Illusion". It was designed as live performance of musicians with audio reactive visuals played on fulldome projection

About the team

Art department consisted of 8 people including me, director and touchdesigner/unrealengine artists. Team of engineers who did projection-mapping and operated light and sound FX consisted of 6 people.

Responsibilities:

• Designing audio-reactive VFX in UE4
• Designing custom tools for full-dome projection rendering in UE4
• Configuring rendering settings in UE4
• Material creation and optimisation UE4
• Asset creation
• Environment creation

Results

• Designed full-dome projection rendering and preview system in UE4
• Forest environment
• 40 minutes long audiovisual performance
• 8 Events in 2022

SKILLS

• Unreal Engine
• Maya
• Davinci Resolve
• Davinci Fusion
• Substance Painter
• Blender
• Adobe Lightroom

EDUCATION

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