Michal Rutkowski boasts a decade of experience in the games and VFX industry across Asia and Europe. His journey has seen him work as a Technical Artist at Square Enix Japan, ARM, and Outpost VFX, where he specialised in physically-based rendering and R&D. Currently, Michal channels his expertise into building an innovative outsourcing venture Meta Meow in Japan, delivering Technical Art and Graphics Programming services for console and PC game developers. He also leads tool development and research at Meta Meow.

Jerome Hereng  joined Sparx*, Jerome with over 15 years of prior experience working in renowned studios like Illumination Mac Guff as an FX Artist. Since joining Sparx* in 2015, he has built the FX department and branched out into game engines specializing in procedural tools. On the Sparx* side, Jerome has added his touch to major titles like Star Wars Rebels, Demon’s Souls Remake and Kena: Bridge of Spirits.

Ryusuke Ohta is a programmer at a broadcast technology company and the organizer of the Houdini Advent Calendar in Japan. He has authored articles on the Houdini Engine API and KineFX, published books on Wrangle and Python, and supervised the introductory Houdini guide, Houdini Drill.

Feike Postmes started out as a technical artist with a love for mathematics. Currently developing the Natsura toolset. He co-founded a technical art company called DodoDevs where he works on procedural solutions for 3D content generation. He grew up in the Netherlands and studied at Breda University of Applied Sciences. Currently living in Tokyo Japan, always happy to talk, whether its procedural art works, so make sure to say hi if you see him.

Chris Gardner is a TD, Houdini artist and proud non-lighter at alt.vfx, based in Sydney, Australia. In between building pipelines, various feather systems, stuffing cats into tubes, he also is responsible for crowd work, successfully pretending to know stuff about character setup.

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Calvin Gu has spent the last seven years developing pipelines for movies and games. He is currently a Senior Technical Artist at LightSpeed Studios, where he oversees a team responsible for the generic 3D content production solution. Previously, Calvin worked at SideFX, contributing to Solaris, and at WetaFX.

Junichiro Horikawa is an independent designer with experience in architectural design from working at an architecture firm. He uses algorithmic design techniques with Houdini to create geometric forms for architecture, product design, and fashion. Currently, he also serves as a specially appointed researcher at a university, while collaborating on design and art projects and producing tutorial videos on YouTube.

Thomas Klyhn Christensen is a senior generalist who started his career in architectural visualisation and later moved into large scale public art, tv, animation and visual effects. He has a profound hunger and curiosity for learning and applying new knowlege, in ways that are not always obvious or commercially viable and if it involves Houdini Crowds he gets even more excited.

Mikael Moane joined Cause and FX in 2018, back when the company was a close-knit team of about 10 artists across all departments. Over the years, Mikael has contributed to the growth and development of the CG department, which expanded to a team of around 20 artists at its peak. Today, Mikael leads the pipeline development and maintenance for the CG department, tackling complex technical challenges and overseeing R&D projects that drive innovation within the studio.