Paul Hortiatis Email Address

Senior Character Artist

Shapeways is the source for limitless personalized production. With a growing online community and marketplace, we're a start-up that harnesses 3D printing to help you make, buy and sell anything you want. Our marketplace of over 3,000 shops enables community members to share their designs with the world. We've built tools to help people without 3D design experience customize, and even create, the stuff in their lives. By providing a platform for our community members to share ideas and gain access to cutting edge 3D printing technology and materials, we're bringing personalized production to everyone

website- http://cargocollective.com/PaulLiaw-Zbrush pipeline -a lot of people can zbrush model but not everyone can get the heavy zbrush model pushed through the pipeline efficient and stable way...I have the right experience to get the maps, UVs, geometry, and render settings to the lighters to get the renders out...and I can fix zbrush errors when they arise so there are no surprises...my approach and workflow evolves constantly as new tools and software come out. I adopt them after I test them for production friendlyness.-3dprint I have extensive experience with creating models for 3d print. I know the strengths and pitfalls of various printers, and can model/design to optimally fit the project. Experience in printing jewelry, art objects, production props.--as Lead/trainer/modeling pipelinebased on my production back ground with commercial, film and game pipelines I am able to inform the director/Cg sup on the best technical way to handle the tasks at hand, and provide mini training sessions to team members to increase team efficiency, and keep consistancy.--as Artist Zbrush modeling-High resolution production friendly characters/environments/costumesMaya -modeling specialist/trainer doing all types of modeling, character, creature, hard surface, CAD cleanup, environmental/sets, -UV layouts, Vector map generation-added bonushaving worked at almost 40 places I know people a lot of people...so I am able to recommend reliable talented artists for various parts of the pipeline, give realistic time estimates for bidding purposes, softwares used- Zbrush, Maya, Photoshop, UVlayout, marvelous designerSpecialties: working solo or leading/training teams in making high end zbrush character/hard surface/environment models, texture painting, perfect UV layout, matte painting,3d printing