Alexander Richter
Senior Pipeline Technical Director at TD Academy
Montpellier, Occitania, France
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Richter is a Senior Pipeline Technical Director and coach with 11 years in VFX, animation, and games, currently shaping pipeline and tooling at Whiz Asylum while running TD Academy. He combines hands-on pipeline, lighting and FX TD experience from studios like Wētā FX, Framestore and Studio Soi with practical Python teaching—having taught hundreds in courses on Python for Maya and Nuke. His credits include work on high-profile projects such as Avatar: The Way of Water and Monster at Work, and he regularly shares insights as a speaker and author at FMX, Siggraph Munich and industry publications. Beyond production, he designs training curricula and pipeline solutions that bridge artist workflows and software engineering, helping artists become technical leads. Based in Montpellier, France, he brings a rare blend of classroom pedagogy and production-proven pipeline architecture.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Filmakademie Baden-WuerttembergBachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen
German, English, Russian
Github Skills (2)
rendering1
nuke1
Github contributions (5)
alexanderrichtertd/plex
Oct 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:11 releases, 122 commits, 97 pushes in 3 years 5 months
alexanderrichtertd/arProject
Oct 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch, 5 comments in 6 months
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