Christopher Gearhart
Owner Chief Software Developer at Bricks Brought to Life
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Gearhart is a multidisciplinary software developer and entrepreneur who blends 16 years of creative VFX and stop-motion experience with nine years of professional engineering work. As founder and Chief Software Developer of Bricker Builds, he leads a distributed team of 25+ contractors to turn LEGO modeling software into life-sized sculpture products and a growing platform. His background includes shipping production-ready Blender addons and contributing backend improvements to notable open-source projects like RetopoFlow, demonstrating deep practical knowledge of graphics tooling and Python-based pipelines. At Crane Currency and in dental-tech and render-farm projects, he’s delivered tooling that automates complex workflows and scales long-running compute jobs. A former computer graphics tutor and intern instructor, he pairs strong pedagogical instincts with hands-on craftsmanship—his animation studio has directed award-winning shorts and even earned a LEGO Ninjago Movie credit.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science: Digital Media, Systems, 3.91, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science: Digital Media, Systems, 3.91 at Taylor University
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CGCookie/retopoflow
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
A suite of retopology tools for Blender
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Contributions summary:Christopher's commits focused on adding functionality to the polypen tool within the RetopoFlow suite for Blender. These changes involve modifying the `rfcontext.py` file, indicating integration of the new tool. The edits involve adding the `RFTool_Polypen` to the RetopoFlow tools, showing a focus on expanding the toolset for retopology. Additional changes related to merge conflicts further confirm contributions to the RetopoFlow codebase.
blenderretopologypython
bblanimation/abs-plastic-materials
Jul 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:14 releases, 137 pushes, 35 branches in 3 years 3 months
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