Yi-Min Fan

Work History

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  Pipeline TD

  Double Negative

  June 2015 - June 2018

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  

• Pipeline Developer | System Administrator | FX Consultant

  Lastlink Films (closed)

  February 2015 - May 2015

  Tainan City, Taiwan

  - 10,000 Miles(2016)
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  Lead FX TD | FX Pipeline TD

  Nitrogen Studios

  April 2014 - January 2015

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  - Sausage Party(2016)

• Pipeline Developer | FX TD

  Lastlink Films (closed)

  July 2013 - January 2014

  Tainan, Taiwan

  - Mr. Monster(2014) a.k.a. Battle for SkyArk
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  FX TD

  The White Rabbit Animation Inc.

  March 2012 - June 2013

  Taipei, Taiwan

  - Hear Rain Teaser Opening(2013)
  - Monkey King : The Origin(original feature animation)
  - Hatching(Siggraph 2012 Animation Festival)

• Digimax Inc.

  December 2008 - August 2011

  Taipei, Taiwan

  
  - Guangzhou 2010 Asian Games Opening
  - Nature’s Wrath: Taiwan’s Inconvenient Truth (Taipei International Flora Expo)
  - Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010)
  
  Wrote a Maya API plug-in which uses the mesh data exchanging C++ library for reading in supported mesh cache formats and works as all-purpose mesh cache loader.
  
  Made a C++ library, inspired by Walt Disney open source project Partio, for converting input mesh cache format to specified output format. This library provides hook for per-format file reader/writer and saves read-in data to central data container for exporting. Practical usage for this library is serving as back-end of a CLI which allows manual or programmatic conversion.
  
  Wrote a Python tool for baking Maya instancer geometries to RealFlow bin format for cross-application geometry data exchanging.
  
  Integrated RealFlow 4 & 5 into FX pipeline with render farm submission(to Alfred) for distributed simulation.
  
  Implemented a wave-spray sim tool in RealFlow 4(written by RealFlow Python Event scripting) for large scale ocean simulation. This tool includes an algorithm for analyzing input wave surface animation(in our case, from Houdini), and then emit spray particles based on threshold calculation.
  

• Nitrogen Studios Canada

  ? - Present