Mahmoud Hesham

Animation (Technical Directing)


Diplomjahr:   2018
Diplomtitel:  
Filmographie:  

  • The Blue Elephant
  • Aswar El Amar
  • Mraty w Zawgaty
  • Tom & Jemmy
  • Operation Messi
  • El Sayaad
  • El Sayeda El Oula
  • Hekayet Hayah

Vita:  

Mahmoud Hesham Hemdan Abdelrahman
Technical Director 
(+49) 163 945 192 8 – contact@mahmoudhesham.net
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Objective
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Looking for being a part of a successful firm in visual effects industry; so I can expand my skills and improve it.
 
Summary and key skills
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I have been working as a technical director so I got experienced in almost every phase in production but I liked to specialize more into pipeline and artists workflow so I can improve efficiency, save effort and make the artist satisfied.
 
Computer skills
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  • Python
  • Git / SVN
  • Maya
  • Mari
  • C++
  • OpenGL
  • Nuke
  • Katana
  • Qt
  • MEL
  • 3ds max
  • RenderMan
  • PySide
  • Maxscript
  • Houdini
  • V-Ray
 
Related Work Experiences
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Full/Part-time Jobs
eder (Ostfildern, Germany)
 
Title: 
Pipeline TD
 
Responsibility: 
I was responsible for developing a daily artists tools and connections between their database with other 3D packages; mostly front-end developer tasks. 

Date: 
(June 2016 - To date)
 
Reference contact: 
alexander.kasperovich@eder.de (Alexander Kasperovich - Pipeline Supervisor)
 
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Voxels (Overseas job, Egypt)
 
Title: 
Technical Director
 
Responsibility: 
I was responsible for building their pipeline and solve the issues they face by creating custom tools mostly for 3ds max and Nuke.

Date: 
(November 2015 - June 2016)
 
Reference contact: 
mostafa@voxels.net (Mostafa Zaki - Co-Founder/CG Supervisor)
 
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hive-ad (Overseas job, Egypt)
 
Title: 
Research and Development Associate
 
Responsibility: 
I was responsible for making their concepts happen in the real world by finding out the possible techniques to create several applications and installations.

Date: 
(November 2015 - June 2016)
 
Reference contact: 
sameh@hive-ad.com (Sameh El Tawil - CEO/Creative Director)
 
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Aroma Studios (Egypt)
 
Title: 
Technical Director
 
Responsibility: 
I was responsible for developing their in-house pipeline and after switching to shotgun studio; 
I had to integrate the tools I have created before to work with shotgun because
shotgun was not fully supporting 3ds max at that time; mostly production tools TD tasks.

Date: 
(March 2013 - May 2015)
 
Reference contact: 
hamdk2000@hotmail.com (Hamdy El Zayat - CG Supervisor)
 
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Freelance Jobs
Autodesk (Volunteer)
 
Title: 
3ds max beta tester
 
Responsibility: 
I was responsible for testing the new features in the upcoming releases, report the found bugs and give feedback and suggestions for new features to be implemented.
altVFX
 
Title: 
Pipeline TD

Date: 
(March 2015)
 
Responsibility: 
I was responsible for their animation caching pipeline because they are rendering inside Houdini, so I should have take care of the system hierarchy, namespace and the global scale for the assets.
 
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TriMe Agency
 
Title: 
VFX Artist

Date: 
(October 2015)
 
Responsibility: 
I was fully responsible for these two projects 
- Zain Communications & Technical Systems. 
- Gulf International Bank.
 
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Researches
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Scaperz facial capturing solution
Wireless, markless and cross-platform facial capturing solution using a standard RGB camera.
 
Scaperz virtual camera
Virtual camera using Arduino and inertial sensor MPU-9150.
 
Facial capturing over head-mounted displays
Implementation of Hao Li publication.
 
Reconstructing high-detailed 3D bust out of single 2D image
Implementation of Total Moving Face Reconstruction publication.
 
 
Education
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Technical Director Diploma
Filmakademie Baden Württemberg - Ludwigsburg, Germany. (On going)
 
Languages
  • English
  • Arabic
  • Basic German

Homepage:   mahmoudhesham.net
   
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