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San Francisco, California
email: paulpxander@yahoo.com
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Artist / Programmer / TD
20 years graphics and system programming.
5 years film and television production.
5 years internet image production.
Operating Systems / Languages / Graphics Systems
UNIX, IRIX, Linux, Windows, C, C++, Maya C++ API, MEL,
Maya expressions, Renderman, OpenGL, Inventor, X11,
Motif, Python, Lisp, Perl, Javascript, HTML, XML.
Programming
Maya shaders and utilities in C++, MEL scripting for modeling
and UI development, paint tools, colorizing and compositing
tools, interactive 3D interfaces, visualization and rendering tools.
Art / Production
Modeling, lighting, FX, texture mapping, compositing, CG painting.
Traditional mediums include: Oils, acrylics, pencil.
Work History
2003 - 2004 Xeffx, Palo Alto, California
Graphics Programmer, Modeler, Fx Artist
- Design, modeling, lighting, special FX, compositing.
- Maya C++ API utilities for modeling and landscaping.
- Maya expression programming for particles and animation control.
- MEL scripting for modeling and general UI control.
- Interactive DVD authoring, layout and design.
- 3D texture mapping and CG painting.
- Web design, HTML and Javascript coding.
1994 - 2003 WeatherNews Inc., Sunnyvale, California
Senior Graphics Programmer, Artist
- 3D image rendering software using C++, Inventor and custom compositing
and colorizing software supporting 30 different meteorological data types.
- Wrote software to generate an image feed serving 130+ internet customers
including Yahoo and UsaToday. Images were produced in 11 languages,
5 time zones including radar, satellite, highs, lows, contours, pollen, UV,
and tropical storm tracking. Implemented using C++ and UNIX shell scripts.
- Designed and implemented atutomated rendering system using 13 SGI 's
to serve WNI's internet feed producing 17000+ image permutations daily.
- Mapping software to render city, highways, waterways from USGS data.
- CGI in C++ and Perl for inhouse image library search and confirmation tool.
- Software for WorldView, a meteorological rendering system for broadcast.
This included OpenGL Inventor, X11 and Motif programming in C++ with
functions used for atmospheric effects, shadows, colorizing, etc.
- Wrote pre-rendering and compositing software used to produce imagery for
35 television stations in the USA broadcasted daily via satellite uplink.
- Technical direction and programming for broadcast production team.
- Software for post production DDR image transfer and interactive control.
- 3D texture mapping software to tile 1Km DEM and 30m LandSat imagery.
- KRON ; Created Bay Area 3D fly in for the evening news weather forecast.
- Indy Star ; Produced image feed for the Indy Star newspaper web page.
1992 - 1994 Parallax Graphics Inc., Santa Clara, California
R&D System Programmer
- Wrote RTV; Real-time video playback from disk with an interactive
interface including a software API under OpenWindows.
- Software for the implementation of the C550 JPEG decompression
chip at the UNIX kernel level for OpenWindows.
- Implemented a realtime user interface with synchronized sound, video
editing, cue points and edit lists for OpenWindows.
- SunOS source code modifications, debugging; tech support.
1980 - 1992 NYIT Computer Graphics Lab, Old Westbury, New York
Graphics Programmer, Artist, Musician
- Strawberry Fields, Feature Film - Al Brodax - Vestron Pictures:
Landscape modeling, artwork, texture mapping and sound effects.
- Ecotopia, Feature Film - Rene Daalder - Vestron Pictures:
Color management, scene continuity, stochastic model instancing.
- Worksgame: Inhouse project - Conceptual presentation for funding.
This entailed producing a maze of 3D interconnecting tunnel sections.
- SGI colorizing tools for 3D image compositing and scene continuity.
- Paint / compositing tools for the SGI under IRIX using SGI's native GL.
- Audio / Video post production room construction and engineering.
- Sound effects, original music and software for stochastic composition.
References upon request