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Name: Lauri Mäki
Location: Espoo, Finland
Marital Status: Married + 2 children
Occupation: Technical Art Director at Fathammer/Telcogames
Hobbies: Visual computer arts, Photography, Demoscene, Floorball.
Computer Groups: Armada(Trauma), DHFC, Gfxile, Grin, tAAt
Past: I started working for Fathammer ltd. as an 3d artist in 2001 and after finishing Helsinki Senior Secondary School of Visual Arts I started there full time. I worked as a Lead Level Designer for Fathammer until spring 2005 when Fathammer stopped developing games in-house. For a year after that I was doing nitpick QA for graphics game content which poured in from the development partners all around the world. That gave me a nice boost for learning the technical side even more despite the fact that I had been involved in developing of X-Forge and X-Forge 2 already.
Currently: These days Fathammer concentrates only in game development and my work includes game design, technical&tool design, level design, 3d graphics, maxscripting and extendscripting. It may sound much but most of the time I am only wearing one hat and have possibility to concentrate in the role I'm currently taking. After all I'm just the "3d guy" - The only one in the company... Just like in the old days. =)
In general: As I have worked on more than 15 very varying and mostly big scale native mobile 3d games and a bunch of indie PC-games I have special knowledge on working with very varying platforms and tight restrictions. Also I am very familiar with methods and processes in game development. I have also worked with several different software and hardware 3d-engines because of my hobby called "Demoscene."
Jargon: For graphics content I'm using mainly 3ds max and Adobe Photoshop. I'm familiar with Mental Ray renderer, while having also expertise on other 3ds max default renderers. I've also written a big pile of maxscripts for advancing 3ds max workflow and developing custom tools for more unique situations. I've also participated in 3dsmax alpha and beta catalyst advisory boards and teached maxscript for 20+ group. More lately I got also familiar with Extendscript to build stuff on Photoshop and wrote already couple of different pipelines to develop photographs faster.

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