Rodrigo Vieira
Senior Technical Artist at People Can Fly Studio
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolRodrigo Vieira is a Senior Technical Artist with 11 years of multidisciplinary experience blending art, engineering and project management to deliver high-fidelity visuals and production-ready tools for AAA games. He specializes in procedural environment tools (Houdini), shader and material authoring (HLSL, Unity C#, Unreal Blueprints), and pipeline automation using Python, MEL and VEX, with a pragmatic focus on gameplay and player experience. Having led technical art teams and taught game design, he pairs hands-on shader/VFX work with clear documentation and best-practice pipelines that scale across studios. Based in Vancouver, he brings an electrical engineering foundation and an MBA in project management to technical decisions, enabling him to bridge creative, technical and managerial perspectives. Known for a curious, code-first approach to art—summed up by his “what I cannot create, I do not understand” ethos—he thrives on turning complex visual problems into elegant, engine-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA Project Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA Project Management at IbmecBachelor of Technology - BTech Game Development, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Game Development at PUC MinasBachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisGame Design, Game Design at Vancouver Film School
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
drag10
interpreter10
chat10
visual-studio10
vuejs210
whatsapp10
client-library10
voice10
api10
bootstrap-table10
nano10
draft-js10
cordova10
css10
server-side-rendering10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
docsphere/docsphere-reader
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 191 pushes, 11 branches in 4 days
bootgly/bootgly_docs
Feb 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:245 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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