Charles Wardlaw

Work History

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  Senior Software Engineer

  NVIDIA

  August 2022 - Present
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  Software Engineer

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  June 2021 - July 2022
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  Senior Developer

  Tangent Animation

  November 2020 - May 2021

  Toronto, Canada
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  Developer

  Tangent Animation

  June 2019 - November 2020

  Toronto, Canada
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  Software Architect

  Intelligent Creatures

  July 2018 - July 2019

  Toronto, Canada Area

  Worked on pipeline code (DCC/command line interfaces, Shotgun automation) as well as custom nodes in Maya and Nuke. Some interface work in Houdini. Worked on rigs for Watchmen for HBO. Consulted on using Unreal Engine 4 technology to produce realtime-rendered high quality shots from Alembic exports.
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  Senior Technical Director / Crowds Supervisor

  Tangent Animation

  May 2017 - June 2018

  Toronto, Canada

  Wrote Python 3 add-one for multiple parts of the pipeline, including a pose library, an animation library, a cache sculpting tool, Python-only Blender binary file introspection, and tools for crowd exports.
  
  I also added features to Blender in C and C++, including extended material and randomization options for the Array modifier, a live blendshape modifier for cache blending, a compiled plugin API for procedural geometry generation in the modifier stack, and a few bug fixes.
  
  I took over as Crowd Supervisor in March to help with the Blender and Golaem setups.

  
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  CG Supervisor

  Industrial Brothers

  September 2016 - May 2017
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  Senior Technical Director

  Nelvana

  February 2015 - January 2016

  Toronto, ON
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  Senior Character TD

  Mr. X

  November 2011 - February 2015

  Toronto, ON

  Responsible for rigging for film and television. Created custom nodes and API plugins in Python and C++ to solve difficult rigging problems. Worked in Houdini for some character effects and finaling. Contributed to pitch projects. Created a modular rigging system using PyMEL for rapid prototyping of new setups, used in all shows in 2014 and many in 2015.