Jani M. Löthman

Jani M. Löthman

Senior VFX Supervisor / Lead Concept Art Director / 10 yrs

Oulu, Finland

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Visual Effects Supervisor

Free Skate (2023)

Visual Effects Supervisor

Tuftland (2019)

Work History
  • Coach | Advisor | VFX | Games | Films | Art

    Looking for game and film productions

    November 2017 - Present
    Finland
  • VFX Supervisor | Art Department Lead | Concept Art | Free Skate

    Film production. Free Skate.

    November 2017 - Present

    VFX supervisor. Creating pipelines for the art department. 3D scanning, modeling, photogrammetry, crowd simulation.

  • VFX Supervisor | Art Department Lead | Concept Art | Kyrsyä Tuftland

    Kyrsyä - tuftland

    January 2016 - Present

    VFX Supervisor in finnish feature film development. All published material, whether it’s for marketing purposes or sales, is created by me. This movie is now recognized internationally all over the world and has been awarded at the most prestigious festivals. Kyrsyä was filmed in Alastaro, Espoo, Tampere and Pori in the summer of 2016.

  • Concept Design Coach | Oulu Game Lab | OGL

    Oulu University of Applied Sciences. Oulu Game Lab. OGL.

    2016 - April 2019
    Oulu

    Coached over 200 hundred students and 60 game productions. Oulu Game Lab is a unique training and development program tailored to meet the needs of the gaming industry. OGL supports the development of game prototypes/products and start-ups.

  • Board Member

    JCI Finland

    2017 - 2018
    Oulu Area, Finland

    Responsible for business relationships. Board member of Oulun Tervaporvarien nuorkauppakamari. BUS-position.

  • Senior Project Manager and Technical Lead

    Sysart Oy

    August 2006 - November 2016

    Developed large scale multi user application for health care sector. Added awareness of agile system development and processes included agile mentoring for high quality and less error prone software production. Organized and held collaborated cross level retrospective evening to obtain and spread knowledge about organizational level impediments.

    Coordinator of Sysart Hotspot seminars (Domain driven Design) in Helsinki 26.10.2010 and Oulu 27.10.2010.

    Head designer and developer of customer project. Responsibilities in the project including design and implementation, system environment analysis and communicating with the customer and establishing the user requirements of the system. Enhancing the organization work flow and work processes to be more efficient and mentoring agile software development process.

  • Board Member

    OPS - Keilaajat ry

    2006 - 2013
    Oulu

    We become to be the biggest sport club in Oulu and created the biggest tournament in Finnland valued by prices. Board Member in bowling organisation. Professional bowler and athlete.

  • Research assistant

    University Of Oulu

    August 2001 - June 2006

    Research and teaching responsibilities in the field of digital media and software development. Tought and led exercises in the following courses: Agent programming, Graphic design, time based multimedia, The basis of digital media, 3D modeling and other related courses.

    Game research and game production in Ludocraft Game Design and Research Unit at the University of Oulu.

    Part time expert/consultant in ELVI project, "Environment for Lucrative Virtual Interaction" 2003.

  • Instructor

    WomenIT - Women in Industry & Technology

    2005 - 2005

    Created and implemented a 2-day Animation & Graphic Workshop for 200 students.

  • Software-, Architecture- and UI-Designer. Java programmer.

    VTT Technical Research Centre, Electronics, Oulu

    October 2003 - January 2004

    Research in Extreme Programming in web-based information system. Designed and developed the information system.

  • IT Consultant and Instructor

    Learning and Research Services at the University of Oulu

    2004 - 2004

    Teaching courses in graphic design and print layout design. Animation and digital image processing.

  • Guest lecturer and speaker

    Department of Information Processing Science at the Universi

    2004 - 2004

    3D modeling course in Oulu University. The subject was: Concept design process and concept art.

  • Instructor.

    Oulu University of Applied Sciences

    2003 - 2003
    Oulu, School of Music, Dance and Media

    Responsible for creating and implementing two media courses for foreign students. The teaching language was English.

Education
  • University of Lapland, Master of Laws in The Faculty of Law

    Lapin yliopisto

    2012 - ?
  • M.Sc. in Information processing, 1999 — 2006

    Oulun yliopisto

    ? - ?