About me:
Name: Wannes Vanderstappen
Date of Birth: 16/11/1990
Residence: Opwijk, Belgium
Contact address: info@wannesvanderstappen.com
Secondary contact address: v.wannes@gmail.com
Nationality: Belgian
Languages: Dutch, English, basic French
Future plans:
Gain more experience and knowledge of everything I do, being both 3D arts and programming.
Studies:
2008 - 2011: Digital Arts & Entertainment @ Howest PIH in Kortrijk, Belgium
2002 - 2008: Math-Latin @ VKO secondary school in Opwijk, Belgium
Experience:
August 2011 - Current: Larian Studios, Ghent, Belgium:
- Technical Artist
- Environment Art
- Graphics Programming (C++, DirectX9, HLSL)
- Tool Programming (C++/CLI, C#)
February 2011 - June 2011: Larian Studios, Ghent, Belgium (Internship):
- 3D Artist
- Graphics Programming (C++, DirectX9, HLSL)
- Tool Programming (C++/CLI, C#)
Skills:
3D/Technical Art:
- Modeling low-poly assets for realtime use.
- Baking of texture maps from high-poly objects to low-poly.
- Unwrapping and texturing
- High poly modeling and creating realistic materials for product visualization.
- Working with game-engines such as Unreal, CryEngine to create levels with custom assets, shaders, gameplay, ...
- Create particle effects with Unreal Cascade, FX Studio.
- Create interesting materials using Unreal Material Editor, in-house material editor from Larian Studios
- Mechanical rigging/skinning
Programming:
- Writing readable Object Oriented C++ code with correct use of coding standards.
- Other languages: C#, C++/CLI
- Good knowledge of the Standard Template Library.
- Graphics programming using DirectX9, DirectX10, OpenGL
- Understanding and writing HLSL/GLSL shaders.
2D:
- Basic drawing skills (1, 2 and 3 point perspective, basic anatomy, painting, shadows) to visualize ideas.
Software:
Autodesk 3DStudio Max and Mudbox
Pixologic ZBrush
Adobe Photoshop
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, 2010
Game Engines worked with: Unreal 3, UDK, Unity 3D, CryEngine2, in-house engine from Larian Studios
Personal Interests:
Besides 3D/Technical Art and Programming, my main interest is music. I enjoy listening to it as well as playing. I play the piano since 1998 (10 years of lessons in the local music school). In 2004 I also started playing on a classical Spanish guitar and in 2006 I bought myself an electrical one. I learned playing on it by myself, and now I'm still trying to keep improving.
When I play videogames, it doesn't really matter what genre it is. The game just has to have something special: unique gameplay, an interesting art style, a very good story, or it just has to be extremely fun. Games I really enjoyed playing are: Hitman - Blood Money, Bioshock, The Elder Scrolls IV - Oblivion, Assassin's Creed series, Condemned, Amnesia - The Dark Descent, Journey, Half-Life 2, FlatOut, Just Cause 2, ...
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