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Hey!

I'm Asi Sudai or Asi Soudai. No, I'm not a spy!
Some government officer miss-spelled my name and now I don't feel like doing the paperwork. And who knows... I might be a spy one day. But then again, if I was a spy, I wouldn't tell you, would I?

What do I do?

I build creative programming ideas.

I'm a creative coder working in the visual-fx & animation industry. Currently working for Rainmaker in Vancouver. I started as an artist then jumped to the technical mambo jumbo doing programing along with creative work like rigging, lighting and studio's pipeline development.

Technical Director...

I love to create something new... innovations and ideas!

Sometimes I do it through code and sometimes I get my hands dirty with creative work. I've experienced a variety of positions from modeling, rigging, lighting, to animation, simulation and now I'm focusing more on programming.

I love to fix "stuff"

The bigger the "stuff" the more fun I have. Here's a short list of challenges I resolved:

Integrating Shotgun-software into an existing pipeline. Solve...

Installed a variety of triggers to sync between two databases, as well as a multi-threaded daemon to monitor and process Shotgun events. Also developed a range of tools to join the data together in a user-friendly way.

Lighting workflow to easily share and keep continuity between shots. Solve...

Developed a user friendly framework to create and publish complex lighting components such as light-rigs, assets, layers, constraints and more. Then share those lighting-setups between shots.

Sharing Nuke scripts content between lighting, fx and composting. Solve...

Created a framework to publish both Nuke-scripts and related read-nodes into a safe read-only archive. Modified a browsing tool to find the latest or approved scripts and share them between departments.

Help Lighting to catch up with frequently changing assets. Solve...

Created a Django web-app that collects relevant information per shot ( latest work file, layers information and rendered images ), and allows for a quick way to review and send a re-render to the farm using the latest assets/animation without the need of artists opening any files.

Enabling disk-space cleanup without interruption to artists and production. Solve...

Analyzed disk-space usage and categorized it into assets, caches, work files and others. Safely targeted those redundancies for cleanup while protecting vital/live production files.

Enabling creation of corrective deformations as layers above history inputs. Solve...

Developed an approach similar to Maya's tweak-nodes that allows layering of corrective fixes. Created a QT-GUI that allows the creation and arrangement of tweaks as layers, which allowed Simulation and ShotFinaling to create, mute, merge and multiply those layers to their needs.

Programming skills

I am an autodidact programmer and artist.

In fact, I've never taken a course for any of this. I've learned everything through work and my own personal experiments.

Demo reel

Ah... almost forgot the reel and resume {download PDF}

Contact

Using PHP and DNA I build an online-me! He is a little bored... he's been stuck online... talk to him!

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