Yasser Hamed

Current

• Senior Lighting & Rendering Technical Director at Walt Disney Animation Studios

Past

• Shader Writer/Senior Technical Director at Sony Pictures ImageWorks
• Software Technical Director/Shader Writer at Animal Logic
• Software Engineer at Digital Motion

• Software Engineer at Freelance (Self-employed)

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Education

• Basair Flying School & Hunter Valley Aviation
• University of Newcastle

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Industry

Motion Pictures and Film

Yasser Hamed’s Summary

Senior Technical Director specializing in R&D, Look Development, and Lighting.

Developing rendering and pipeline tools for VFX and Lighting Technical Directors.
Shader and Look Development for High-End FX and CG Animated films.

Interests include: Physically based rendering, Fluid, and RBD simulation algorithms.

Imdb: http://www.imdb.me/yasserhamed

I'm a United States Permanent Resident (Green Card) and Australian Citizen

Yasser Hamed’s Specialties:

Extensive experience with Maya, PRMan, Mental Ray, and Arnold
Strong Mathematics and Engineering background, highly versed in C++, Python, MEL, Renderman SL, and the Maya API.

Yasser Hamed’s Experience

• Senior Lighting & Rendering Technical Director

  Walt Disney Animation Studios

  (Public Company; DIS; Animation industry)

  April 2010 — Present (4 months)

  Lighting and Rendering Pipeline Technical Director for Tangled (Rapunzel).

• Shader Writer/Senior Technical Director

  Sony Pictures ImageWorks

  (Public Company; SNE; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  February 2006 — April 2010 (4 years 3 months)

  Shader Writer for the following movies:
  
  Beowulf
  Cloudy with a chance of meatballs
  Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland
  2012 Farewell Atlantis
  Cats and Dogs 2

• Software Technical Director/Shader Writer

  Animal Logic

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  January 2004 — February 2006 (2 years 2 months)

  Shader Writer and Software Technical Director for the following movies:
  
  Academy Award Winning "Happy Feet"
  Oliver Stone's World Trade Center Project
  Stealth

• Software Engineer

  Digital Motion

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Animation industry)

  September 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 5 months)

  Animator and Software Engineer for TV commercials house in Newcastle Australia.

• Software Engineer

  Freelance (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 2002 — September 2002 (8 months)

  Developing technical software for Engineering firms, Research Institutions, and Universities.

Yasser Hamed’s Education

• Basair Flying School & Hunter Valley Aviation

  Diploma , Aviation , 2003 — 2008

  Holder of Australian Private Pilot Licence (Aeroplane), PPL(A) and United States Private Pilot Certificate.

• University of Newcastle

  BEng , Mechanical Engineering, Major: Numerical Methods & Image Processing , 1998 — 2002

Additional Information

Yasser Hamed’s Interests:

Piloting Light Aircraft, Aerobatics, Music, Drums, Physics & Mathematics, Films & Visual Effects

Yasser Hamed’s Groups:

Visual Effects Society

•    The Visual Effects Society
•    Visual Effects, Film and Games Professionals (www.vfx-recruit.com)
•    Sony Pictures Imageworks Alumni
•    Animals

Yasser Hamed’s Honors:

CRC-ACS Scholarship, IEAust Nomination for Ian Henderson Award in Public Speaking.