Graham Thompson
Associate Principal Technical Artist - Procedural Art
Culver City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGraham Thompson is an Associate Principal Technical Artist specializing in procedural art with 14 years of experience building and leading FX and pipeline teams across AAA games and feature VFX. He currently drives procedural art systems at Rockstar Games after supervising FX pipelines and core Houdini tools at Digital Domain and Apple-facing pipeline work. Graham blends deep Houdini expertise, custom HDK/plugin development, and facility-scale pipeline design to translate artistic needs into robust, deployable tools and APIs. He has repeatedly led modernization efforts—improving automated test coverage, software porting, and production-ready build systems—while mentoring TD teams. Based in Culver City, he openly shares his personal tooling and projects on GitHub, reflecting a practical commitment to open-source and reproducible workflows. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge studio constraints and ambitious visual effects.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)Associate of Arts (A.A.) Computer Science, Associate of Arts (A.A.) Computer Science at Santa Monica CollegeHoudini + Nuke Certification, Houdini + Nuke Certification at Vancouver Film School
Github Skills (19)
crossword10
java10
texture10
houdini10
image9
image-processing9
python9
api9
package-management8
build-configuration7
packaging7
docstrings6
package-manager5
dependency-manager5
tooling4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
captainhammy/pytest-houdini
Sep 2023 - Jul 2024
Pytest plugin providing Houdini related fixtures
Contributions:7 releases, 30 PRs, 29 pushes in 10 months
captainhammy/houdini_package_runner
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
Tooling to analyze or perform actions on Python code in Houdini packages
Contributions:9 releases, 37 commits, 30 PRs in 5 months
python-codepythonhoudinipython3python39
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