Tania Papandrea
Crowd TD at DNEG
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTania Papandrea is a Crowd TD and artist-developer with 11 years of experience building user-friendly tools and crowd systems in Houdini for top VFX studios. She has contributed to high-profile productions at ILM, Animal Logic, LAIKA, and now DNEG, blending a fine-art background in painting with a Computer Science degree to bridge creative intent and technical rigor. Her UX/UI experience and tenure on a corporate design team inform a pragmatic approach to tool design that prioritizes artist workflows and accessibility. Trained as an FX Technical Director at Campus VFX, she pairs procedural problem-solving with aesthetic sensitivity to streamline complex crowd and FX pipelines. Based in Vancouver, she is known for translating Houdini’s power into intuitive, production-ready tools that enable artists to focus on storytelling rather than mechanics.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Diploma FX Technical Director, Diploma FX Technical Director at Campus VFXBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Boston University
English, FrenchProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
taniapapandrea/OpenGL-Vivarium
Jan 2016 - Feb 2020
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
taniapapandrea/AdventofCode2021
Dec 2021 - Jun 2022
Advent coding challenges from adventofcode.com
Contributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 1 PR in 6 months
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