Jan Walter

Current

Senior Graphics Software Engineer at mental images

Past

Production Support Engineer at Digital Domain
research & development at The Mill
research & development at Mill Film

research & development at Moving Picture Company
Programmer at Not a Number
Programmer at Q bus Mediatektur GmbH
Programmer at Artemedia productions GmbH
Programmer at Fraunhofer Institute - Production Systems and Design Technology

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Education

Technische Universitaet Berlin
Friedrich Alexander Universitaet Erlangen-Nuremberg

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Industry

Motion Pictures and Film

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Jan Walter’s Summary

Software developer for special effects in commercials and movies, specialized in rendering technology and general R&D related to SFX work.

Jan Walter’s Specialties:

Research & Development, NURBS expert, rendering technology, shader writing (RenderMan and mental ray), plug-in development (Houdini, Maya, XSI, and others), C/C++, Python, SL, ...

Jan Walter’s Experience

Senior Graphics Software Engineer

mental images

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

Shader development, beta testing new technology, production support.
Production Support Engineer

Digital Domain

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

August 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 2 months)

Data exchange pipeline between Houdini, Maya, Lightwave, and 3DS Max. Production support. Plugin development. Help with mental ray integration.
research & development

The Mill

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Media Production industry)

December 2002 — August 2005 (2 years 9 months)

shader writing (mental ray, RenderMan), plug-in development (XSI, Houdini, Maya), general research & development for VFX in film, commercials and music videos, lecturer (Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg), cooperation with universities (e.g. CFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics)
research & development

Mill Film

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

October 2001 — December 2002 (1 year 3 months)

see position at The Mill but this time for pure film work ...
research & development

Moving Picture Company

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

May 2001 — October 2001 (6 months)

see The Mill and Mill Film ...
Programmer

Not a Number

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2000 — April 2001 (10 months)

We developed (in Holland) a free software called Blender for animation and rendering, it had an integrated game engine, and a compositing system. I was responsible for a programming interface (API) for a programming language called Python and developed a lot of freely available import/export scripts (OpenInventor, VRML 2.0, RenderMan, Povray, Radiance, Panorama, Lightflow Rendering Tools, Lightwave, Wavefront Object Files (OBJ), and 3DS).
Programmer

Q bus Mediatektur GmbH

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Media Production industry)

November 1997 — June 2000 (2 years 8 months)

Representing large companies like the Deutsche Telekom on international events like the CeBIT or the Expo 2000. This included programming for high-tech virtual reality applications as well as the design and implementation of media installations (e.g. a real-time "wall" screen with a 12800x4800 resolution driven by an Onyx 2 machine from SGI for the International Net Management Center (INMC) of Deutsche Telekom in Frankfurt).
Programmer

Artemedia productions GmbH

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Media Production industry)

September 1996 — October 1997 (1 year 2 months)

Software development for the so-called InfoBox at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin (virtual flight through Berlin). Virtual Reality "Caves" for other VR applications.
Programmer

Fraunhofer Institute - Production Systems and Design Technology

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

November 1995 — August 1996 (10 months)

Supercomputing (parallel algorithms) ESPRIT project about semi automatic repair of free form surfaces built up from NURBS (CAD data for aircrafts). For this project we had industrial partners like DASA (German Aerospace), British Airways (UK), and we cooperated with the University of Swansea (UK) and others ...

Jan Walter’s Education

Technische Universitaet Berlin

Dipl. Informatiker , computer science , October 1992 — October 1996

Finishing the studies I started in Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Activities and Societies:

Emphasis on computer graphics and computer vision. Diploma about "implementing the basis for a NURBS modeling system".
Friedrich Alexander Universitaet Erlangen-Nuremberg

Dipl. Informatiker , computer science , October 1988 — October 1992

The university didn't offer computer graphics at that time. That's the reason why I moved to the Technische Universitaet in Berlin to specialize there.

Activities and Societies:

Emphasis on theoretical computer science, math, and physics.