Stefan Hamann

Projects: Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced

Responsibilities:

• Support for various teams in all kinds of world building related technical topics (procedural generation/tool support, terrain/biomes, world setups, lighting/ambiance, weather, objectbank, budgeting & optimization)
• Taking care of highlevel world building topics and optimization
• Writing tools/scripts in C# to support the work in the game-engine (Anvil)
• Using Houdini for misc. biome related problem solving, tool creation and debugging of procedural data generated in engine
• Establish guidelines and pipelines for tools, asset creation, shaders etc.
• Shader-dev-support for specific cases (mostly biome related, vegetation, rocks)
• Individual support for specific workflows to make work more efficient for LevelArt
• Find and optimize problematic/costly situations in Level/EnvironmentArt data
• General debug-support for all kinds of game development topics

Projects: Assassins Creed Shadows

Responsibilities:

• Ownership of procedural scatter recipes to populate Biomes and procedural tools with assets (CPU and GPU)
• Responsible for Wildlife integration in Biomes and Ecosystem and related procedural tech development
• Driving in-engine feature development for specific technical requirements
• Writing in-engine scripts to get reports on data and streamline workflows
• Setting up prototypes to iterate on and investigate pros and con
• Bug and feature improvement reporting and support for engine-tech development
• Guiding and mentoring local and collaborating Team-members on technical topics related to world-building (including procedural, terrain, water, asset handling, performance, world settings and generation)
• Creating onboarding training plans and schedules for TA newcomers and executing them accordingly
• Keeping up to date on latest internal engine feature development to provide proper support for local teams

Projects: Assassins Creed Valhalla | Immortals Fenyx Rising - Myth of the Eastern Realms | Skull & Bones

Responsibilities:

• Support for all kinds of technical topics (mainly procedural tools/generation & terrain-handling, Asset-creation, Optimization, Functionality of GameplayAssets, FX etc.)
• Establish guidelines and documentation for tools, modelling, LevelArt etc.
• Taking care of technical Asset-validation and instruct Artists how to work in a more efficient and optimized manner
• Shader-dev-support for specific cases (e.g. FX, Gameplay elements etc.)
• Writing tools/scripts in C# to support work in the game-engine (Anvil)
• Script-support for 3ds Max (Maxscript)
• Using Houdini for destruction-setups, debugging of procedural generation and scattering
• Creating Houdini-Utilities (.otl/.hda) for general purpose (leveraging vex and python)
• Individual support for specific workflows to make work more efficient for LevelArt
• Finding and optimizing problematic/costly situations in Level/EnvironmentArt
• General debug-support for all kind of topics
• Planning and guidance for new colleagues onboarding

Projects: The Surge 2 | The Surge DLCs (4x)

Responsibilities:

• Writing tools (currently mostly Max-Script) to simplify daily work routines and enhance efficiency
• Prototyping complex character-assets (characters, bosses, gear/armor-sets, weapons) and finding solutions for difficult character-setups/requirements
• Integrate and validate characters-assets in-engine and check for problems
• Evaluating engine-rendering and check for performance drop-downs
• Optimizing assets to keep them in given memory-budgets (polycount, textures, shadowcasting/Lods, etc.)
• Communicate engine-bugs to the tech-department and working closely together to find solutions
• Helping coworkers with finding solutions for different software-problems
• Creating physical breakable- and cloth-assets using NVidia Physx/Apex
• Adjust assets to meet gameplay-relevant requirements

Projects: The Surge 2 | The Surge DLCs (4x) | The Surge

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the whole 3D character-outsourcing process (including characters (humanoid, non-humanoid, bosses, organic, non-organic), armor-sets, weapons, additional props)
• Estimating and negotiating production-time
• Ensure to meet deadlines and stay in the available budgets
• Creating 3D-prototypes for every character-asset for internal use and as guideline for outsourcing-companies (closely working together with concept-, animation- and gamedesign-department to meet all requirements)
• Preparing detailed briefings and communicating needs to outsource-companies (with respect to technical requirements, e.g. polycount, texture-size, shadowcasting/LODs, solid/transparent parts etc.)
• Checking submissions for errors or necessary adjustments and feedback them
• Preparing and integration of final models in the game-engine (including mesh-adjustments, skinning, material-settings)
• Final polishing of character-assets (performance-wise and textures)
• Fully creating assets in-house on my own, if time allowed it

• Supporting students with questions and problems
• Assisting the head-instructor and external tutors
• Preparing classes and teach students
• Preparing and carry out exams for students

• Creating an interactive movie-set for the film-producers (full environment based on real-life landscaping-plans and satellite-data, character, camera-props) with a team of 3 people

Projects: Emergency 5 | Emergency mobile