Andrey Zhuchkov
Senior Animator
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrey Zhuchkov is a senior animator with a decade of experience crafting character animation for triple-A titles such as Hogwarts Legacy, Gotham Knights, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Based in Montreal, he blends traditional animation artistry with technical fluency in MotionBuilder and Maya, shaped by formal training at Ubisoft Campus and an industrial engineering background from STANKIN. His career spans studios from Ubisoft to WB Games Montreal, delivering both cinematic trailers and in-game performance-critical animation. Uncommonly for an animator, Andrey contributes to low-level graphics tooling—his GitHub work on Vulkan validation layers shows an aptitude for GPU APIs and debugging complex rendering validation. This mix of creative storytelling and systems-level problem solving makes him adept at bridging animation pipelines with engine constraints. He brings a pragmatic, production-focused approach to animation that reduces technical risk while preserving artistic intent.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering at Moscow State Technological University STANKINAEC, 3D Animation for Video Games, AEC, 3D Animation for Video Games at Ubisoft Campus
English, Russian, French
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Github Skills (14)
vulkan10
c-language10
api10
cprogramming-language10
apidoc10
debug9
debugging9
mutex6
elapsed-time6
opencl6
opengl-es6
hlsl6
interop6
cg6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers
Apr 2019 - Jan 2022
Vulkan Validation Layers (VVL)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 18 PRs, 31 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Andrey primarily contributed to the validation layers of the Vulkan API, as indicated by the commit messages and code changes. Their work involved modifying existing code to improve the validation process, including fixing invalid error messages, addressing potential crashes, and optimizing pipeline state searches. The user's changes focused on areas such as GPU validation and draw call validation, showing a deep understanding of the Vulkan API internals.
vulkanlayersvalidation
Andreyogld3d/Move3D
Jul 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:30 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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