Martin Chatterjee
Global Head Of Pipeline at Psyop
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolMartin Chatterjee is a Global Head of Pipeline and 3D Technical Director with over two decades in VFX and animation, currently leading pipeline strategy at Psyop from Cologne. He combines software engineering, rigging expertise and pipeline architecture to deliver robust, artist-friendly tools and workflows that prioritize usability and performance without requiring a CS degree. Martin has repeatedly built DCC-agnostic frameworks and dog-fooded them on hero-character rigs, demonstrating a pragmatic blend of R&D and production rigging. His career spans senior pipeline and technical leadership across studios like SEHSUCHT and Orca Studios, with a track record of turning complex production needs into reproducible, maintainable systems. He brings an artist’s eye to technical problems, often surfacing UX-driven improvements that quietly speed artists’ daily work.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl-Ing., Audiovisual Media, Dipl-Ing., Audiovisual Media at Fachhochschule Stuttgart - Hochschule der Medien
Github Skills (14)
pyside10
shim10
coverage9
pyqt9
code-coverage9
python7
testing7
spread5
nuke2
filter2
maya2
doxygen1
houdini1
pythonic1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
martin-chatterjee/vfxtest
Feb 2019 - Dec 2022
Manages a Python test suite spread out over multiple DCC's and python versions, combines all code coverage information.
Contributions:92 commits, 8 PRs, 32 pushes in 3 years 10 months
dccpythontestingpython-versionspython-test
martin-chatterjee/vfxui
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
Rapid creation of reusable PySide based user interfaces within a VFX environment.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year
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