Christian Deiss
Senior Technical Artist at Electronic Arts (EA)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Deiss is a Senior Technical Artist and engineering leader with over a decade of experience building production pipelines and tools for VFX, games, and live experiences. He has led teams at ScanlineVFX, Magnopus, Unity, and now EA, delivering automated pipelines that cut manual steps by 70% and enabling large-scene exchange between Maya, 3ds Max, Unity, and USD-based workflows. Christian combines hands-on development (Python, C#, MaxScript) with product and DevOps practices—introducing CI/CD for ShotGrid Toolkit and Unity packages, and shepherding multiplayer and streaming features at Unity. His credits span high-profile films and VR/AR projects, and he has proven skill turning complex film-scale scenes into optimized assets for real-time use. He also holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science for Media and is known for pragmatic, artist-focused solutions such as procedural city generation and custom scene-description formats that bridge creative and engineering needs.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B. Eng., Audiovisual Media, B. Eng., Audiovisual Media at Stuttgart Media UniversityM. Sc., Computer Science for Media, M. Sc., Computer Science for Media at Wilhelm Büchner University of Applied SciencesApprenticeship, Photography, Apprenticeship, Photography at Thomas Imaging
German, English
Github Skills (20)
unity3d10
shotgun9
api9
unity-dots9
pipeline8
substance8
pipeline-framework6
painter6
whatsapp5
telegram5
jira5
messaging4
chat4
synchronization4
slack4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MrDice/tk-core
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
The Shotgun Pipeline Toolkit Core API
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 4 branches in 18 days
apipipelineshotguncore-apishotgun-pipeline-toolkit
MrDice/logseq-plugin-agenda
Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
A calendar for logseq
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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