Bernard Kwok
Rendering Consultant at NanMu Creative
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarBernard Kwok is a seasoned rendering architect and consultant with nine years of recent focused experience and over two decades in graphics and look-development across Maya, real-time and offline renderers. He led cross-division MaterialX work at Autodesk and continues to shape open standards at ASWF and Khronos, contributing back-end document management and unit-conversion features to the widely used MaterialX project. Bernard blends deep low-level hardware and shader expertise with practical pipeline design—helping studios bridge UX/graphic design, AEC, and entertainment look-dev workflows. Known for shipping production features in multi-team, multi-location environments, he pairs hands-on engineering with teaching and advocacy around 2D/3D pipelines and generative AI. An uncommon strength is his ability to translate standards work into tangible tooling and interoperability improvements that accelerate studio adoption.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
xml10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
materialx10
computer-graphics9
3d-graphics9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX
Oct 2017 - Dec 2021
MaterialX is an open standard for the exchange of rich material and look-development content across applications and renderers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 reviews, 48 commits, 72 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Bernard primarily focused on implementing document management features within the MaterialX format, specifically related to XML input and output. Their work involved adding options to skip duplicate elements during XML reads, refactoring existing code, and adding a new structure for reading XInclude references. Additionally, the user contributed to implementing and testing functions for unit conversion. The changes impact how documents are read, written, and processed within the MaterialX ecosystem.
lookvfxexchangematerialreal-time-rendering
autodesk-forks/MaterialX
Jul 2017 - Feb 2022
MaterialX C++ and Python libraries
Contributions:138 releases, 328 reviews, 722 commits in 4 years 7 months
pythoncppreal-time-renderingpbr-materialsmaterialx
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