Guillaume Laforge

Work History

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  Head of Research and Development

  Rodeo FX

  February 2017 - Present
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  Lead Software Engineer - CG Pipeline

  Rodeo FX

  April 2016 - January 2017

  Montreal, Canada Area

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Lead Software Engineer

  MPC

  January 2014 - December 2015

  Montreal - Vancouver

  Leading MPC Canada (Montreal, Vancouver) Rendering, Compositing and 3ddmp Software team
  
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  R&D Engineer

  Hybride

  April 2013 - January 2014

  Responsible for the development of new tools build around Fabric Engine technology.
  I designed and implemented Assembly, an application to load and instantiate Alembic data in a procedural way, directly from Softimage, Maya and Arnold.
  I worked on the migration of the in-house deep compositing command line tool into an UI based application using C++, Python and KL languages.
  I also helped on some productions (White House Down, Smurf2, ...) by building various scripts and custom ICE nodes.

• R&D Engineer

  Fabric Engine

  September 2012 - March 2013

  Montreal

  I wrote a Particle-based Viscoelastic Fluid Simulation system (based on SimonClavet, Philippe Beaudoin, and Pierre Poulin paper).
  
  I worked on the refactoring of Creation Platform geometry primitives to use the improved attribute system.
  
  I did the refactoring of Creation Platform Timeline system (using a model-view-controller pattern).
  
  Various enhancements of the node graph editor including better interactive node connexions and improved navigation system.
  
  Refactoring of the Alembic and OBJ importers. Adding support for particles to Alembic importer/exporter.
  
  Better integration with Softimage graphic sequencer.
  
  I worked on CPFlora, a system for procedural plant generation, fixing bugs, adding features, and then doing support for its first use in production for an upcoming feature film.
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  Senior SW Engineer

  Autodesk

  March 2012 - August 2012

  Montreal, Canada Area

  Developer in the Maya team
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  Software Developer

  Autodesk

  April 2010 - March 2012

  I designed and implement CrowdFX, a flexible and open framework to build any crowd simulations using ICE (including an advanced collision avoidance solver, animations blending system, kinematic constraints, state machine etc...).
  
  I added the sub-frame sampling feature to the Evolve Op, the Softimage operator managing simulated data.
  
  I worked on the Syflex for ICE by helping this third party to integrate their solver in a more procedural way.
  
  I wrote 90% of ICE modeling native nodes and build all the compounds (like Mesh Extrusion from Strands, a basi
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  3D Technical Director

  La Maison

  March 2007 - April 2010

  I worked on some high end commercials and feature films ( https://alamaison.fr/work_v2.html# )
  
  As a lighting artist using Mental Ray, Mantra and beta testing Arnold, as a VFX TD using Softimage and Houdini and as a developer building plugins for Softimage and Houdini.

• Freelance Cg artist

  Vol2nuit

  January 2003 - March 2007

  Working on commercials from my little studio or on site for local clients.

• Freelance Technical Director

  PÏNKA Studio

  November 2006 - February 2007

  Lead character setup and lighting in the pre-production of the TV serie "La terre vue d'Alban" from Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Development of the animation asset system.
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  Freelance Cg artist |Technical Director

  Antefilms Studio

  May 2004 - October 2006

  I worked as a lighter on Code Lyoko 2, then as TD/Cg artist on "The Fantastic Four" serie and then at the R&D departement on Code Lyoko 4 serie.

• CG supervisor

  Sys Infographie

  May 2001 - December 2003

• Cg artist

  Arc Center

  July 1999 - June 2001

• Architect and Cg artist

  Christophe Monnier Architecte

  March 1997 - February 1999