My name is Oliver Weingarten, I´m based in Siegen/Germnay and I´m working as a 3D and VFX artist and technical generalist for the past 19 years. I´m delivering complete mid range 3d projects for agencies or corporations for exhibitions, print or internet.
I´m also doing custom 3D and VFX work for international post production companies as freelancer. I worked as particle/simulation TD and team lead on several international commercial productions.
I´m very active in the Softimage community with hosting the si-community, a dedicated softimage forum, and organizing the yearly SOFTIMAGE|ÜberTage event.
1991-1997 University Siegen: fine arts, German language&literature and educational science
1997 Erstes Staatsexamen Sekundarstufe I/II
1998 Started pixelpanic computernanimation with SOFTIMAGE|3D
2002 Switched to SOFTIMAGE|XSI
2004 Music Video for Sabrina Setlur
2009 Beginning to learn SOFTIMAGE|ICE System
2008-2017 in close contact to Eric Mootz and his software development (www.moozoid.com)
2010 -2017 national/international engagements for fluid and particle simulation
2016 – 2017 intergating Houdini FX into my portfolio
since 2016 offering 3D Laserscanning Service with a Faro Focus S 120
Some companies I´ve worked for:
http://thornbergandforester.com/
Toolset:
SOFTIMAGE|XSI 2015
SideFX Houdini 16
Maya 2015
Redshift 3D Renderer
V-Ray Renderer
Blackmagic Fusion Studio
Blackmagic Resolve 12
Andersson Technologies Syntheyes 1511
Agisoft Photoscan
Adobe CS