Over the years my role has required me to learn the ins and outs of developing my own tools which has lead to the birth of Peregrine Labs, a division of Peregrine Visual Storytelling.
I claim that I’m versed in a selection of languages covering a range of applications. Most notably – C/C++, Objective C & Cocoa, Python, OpenGL, Maya API, Renderman SL and RIB API, Mental Ray API, Nuke SDK and Mel.
GPU programming became interesting during my tenure at EA where I was exposed to hardware shading for the Sony Playstation and XBox consoles and now use both NVidia’s Cuda and OpenCL in a handful of my own research projects.
More recently my sights have turned to the iPhone and iPad ( along with the rest of the world ), web application development and visualization techniques.
Liquid
Liquid is a Maya to Renderman translator I developed over 10 years ago that had the luxury of evolving while I was at Weta during Lord of the Rings.
Other
Other VFX tools I’ve written may include something to do with muscle and skin dynamics, procedural geometry, vfx pipeline, compositing, natural phenomenon, crowds, plants, rendering, etc.
