Olaf Haag - Technical Artist

Welcome to my personal website! Here I want to share my endeavors and experiences around the technical intricacies of digital content creation for real-time 3D applications with you.

About Me

Olaf Haag

That's Me!

Technical Artist

I have gained professional experience as an environment artist and as a technical artist in the games industry. Even during my psychology studies, I have not lost the enthusiasm for game development. Explore my website to find out more!

Passionate

about solving complex and also smaller technical problems to help a team of creatives reach its vision. I find satisfaction in developing tools and workflows needed for a streamlined art pipeline. Establishing appealing visuals together and working towards a common goal is my drive. For that, I’m eager to dive into the deep end. Lately, I’m excited about procedural content generation.

Curious

and enjoy discovering new technologies and latest advances for content creation and optimization. I find it inspiring and energizing to learn from other skilled tech-artists, or sharing my knowledge. To satisfy my scientific curiosity, I studied psychology to get a better understanding of cognitive processes, behavior, and perception. This also improved my analytic skill set.

Experienced

in making 3D games. I spent five years in the games industry as part of a team to receive awards for Best German Game and Best German Role-playing Game. During my academic studies, I was able to apply and further develop my knowledge and skills in this regard. I helped researchers and students realize their experiments in virtual reality and record motion capture data.

My Skills

I’m skilled in several digital content creation tools and in Python Programming.

My current focus is on procedural environment art and tools scripting, but I’m really interested in any technical problem solving. I also dabble in several open source tools and like to try new technologies, e.g. tools for photogrammetry workflows. During my time at the university I was gathering experience in Motion Capture Technologies with an optical marker based system (Phasespace) as well as suit-based system (XSens).

skilled in

  • Autodesk Maya

  • Motionbuilder

  • Substance Designer

  • Adobe Photoshop

  • DigitalFossil's Nvil

  • Krita

  • Inkscape/Adobe Illustrator

  • Python Programming language

  • getting familiar with

  • SideFX Houdini

  • Unreal Engine 4

  • Unity Software

  • Blender

  • Meshroom (Alice Vision)

    • 01- 3D Modeling (Environment, Hard-Surface)

    • 02- Procedural Content Generation (SideFX Houdini)

    • 03- Python Scripting

    • 04- Motion Capture

    • 05- VFX

    • 06- Data Analyses

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    Shipped Games

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    Award Winning Games

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    Years Experience

    My Work

    If an image title is rendered in black, click on it to go to its blog post and see more.

    For more code projects please check out my GitHub repositories. You may also find more art projects on my Artstation profile.

    Vectorfields Python Package

    Vectorfields Python Package

    My open source parametric vectorfield/flowmap generator script.

    Outdoor Intercom Column

    Outdoor Intercom Column

    Asset for a VR project. (Maya, Substance Designer, Unity)

    Outdoor Intercom Column

    Outdoor Intercom Column

    Asset for a VR project. (Maya, Substance Designer, Unity)

    Greasy Elevator

    Greasy Elevator

    Asset for a VR project. (Maya, Substance Designer, Unity)

    Greasy Elevator

    Greasy Elevator

    Asset for a VR project. (Maya, Substance Designer, Unity)

    Elevator Control Panel

    Elevator Control Panel

    Asset for a VR project. (Maya, Substance Designer, Unity)

    Fire Alarm

    Fire Alarm

    Asset for a VR project. (Maya, Substance Designer, Unity)

    Handheld PC

    Handheld PC

    Asset for a VR project. (Maya, Substance Designer, Unity)

    Handheld PC

    Handheld PC

    Asset for a VR project. (Maya, Substance Designer, Unity)

    Handheld PC

    Handheld PC

    Asset for a VR project. (Maya, Substance Designer, Unity)

    Lectern

    Lectern

    Asset for a VR project. (Maya, Substance Designer, Unity)

    Lectern

    Lectern

    Asset for a VR project. (Maya, Substance Designer, Unity)

    Ticket Machine

    Ticket Machine

    Asset for a VR project. (Maya, Substance Designer, Unity)

    Rendering with Luxrender

    Rendering with Luxrender

    Sculpted in Sculptris, Rendered in Blender with Luxrender

    Village House Generator

    Village House Generator

    Houdini Digital Asset in early stage.

    Projector

    Projector

    Asset for a VR project.

    Projector

    Projector

    Testing Houdini’s Modeling features. Red nodes are the only ones with manual component selection.

    Stylized Rock Generator

    Stylized Rock Generator

    Houdini Digital Asset for stylized rocks. Click name to see more.

    Anvil

    Anvil

    Modeling in Nvil.

    T-Shirt Print Template

    T-Shirt Print Template

    Word pun on a shirt.

    Student Project in VR

    Student Project in VR

    Items for a student project of third semesters researching threat stimuli in VR.

    Blog Posts

    Stepped Gradients in Substance Designer

    I found myself in an increasing need for stepped gradients inside Substance Designer lately, so I evaluated a few methods I could think of for creating them. You might use them, for example, to build a Color ID map for use in a Multi-Material Blend node.

    • #substance
    • #procedural-art
    • #environment-art
    Read more

    Vectorfields Python Package

    This little project started at a little game jam with the topic “electricity”. I wanted to do something with particles and controlling their flow with formulas, but the available methods for creating vector fields at the time were either too complicated for this small task, or too time-consuming or bound to purchasing a software license.

    • #python
    • #vfx
    • #unity
    • #ue4
    • #vectorfields
    • #flowmaps
    Read more

    Stylized Rock Generator (Part 1)

    I got inspired by an early presentation video for The Cycle that is produced here in Berlin. I saw these rocks that look like they’ve been washed out or that had big parts blasted away.

    • #houdini
    • #work-in-progress
    • #procedural-modeling
    • #environment-art
    Read more
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    Get In Touch

    Contact Details

    If you would like to get in touch with me, you can send me an e-mail or fill out the contact form. Thanks!

    Berlin, Germany
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