Jonathan Williamson
Director at Autotroph
Lenexa, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Williamson is a director, co-founder, and self-taught 3D animation artist with 13 years of experience building education-focused businesses and tools for the Blender community. He helped create and operate CG Cookie and Blender Market, authored a Cengage Learning book on character development, and published 200+ tutorials and training DVDs guiding beginners to advanced users. As primary developer of RetopoFlow, he implemented core retopology tools in Python that are widely used in Blender workflows. He combines hands-on product development, instruction, and community building—running a bootstrapped company with distributed contributors from Lenexa, Kansas. Jonathan’s background spans founding studios, university media work, and international workshops, giving him a practical blend of creative, technical, and teaching chops. He’s particularly skilled at turning complex character-modeling techniques into accessible learning materials and shipping tooling that improves artist pipelines.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Kansas State University
English, American Sign Language
Github Skills (2)
blender10
python10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CGCookie/retopoflow
Nov 2014 - Jan 2021
A suite of retopology tools for Blender
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:441 commits, 38 PRs, 303 pushes in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan was the primary developer, implementing the initial core functionality of RetopoFlow. Their contributions included writing foundational Python code and setting up the initial structure of the project. The user demonstrated expertise in creating and integrating the combined features from Contours and Polystrips retopology tools.
usabilitypythonblenderretopologyblender-addon
CGCookie/retopology-polystrips
Jul 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:80 commits, 2 pushes, 3 comments in 1 year 7 months
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