Vladimir Lopatin
Senior Technical Artist at Guerrilla
Zaandam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolVladimir Lopatin is a Senior Technical Artist with over a decade of experience shaping VFX, simulation and procedural systems for AAA games, primarily at Guerrilla where he drove ocean, destructibility, vegetation and GPU-accelerated impostor tech across the Killzone and Horizon franchises. He combines a strong mathematics background and functional-programming interests (notably Haskell) with deep Houdini expertise to prototype and ship production tools and runtime systems on engines from Decima to Unreal. His SIGGRAPH 2024 presentation on topology-changing rolling waves highlights a rare blend of research-grade simulation work and studio-scale engineering. Based in the Netherlands, he’s known for turning complex physical phenomena into performant game-ready representations and for automating creative workflows to empower designers and artists.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics at The Open UniversityMaster's degree Linguistics, Master's degree Linguistics at Moscow Pedagogical State UniversityMaster's degree Linguistics, Master's degree Linguistics at Ural State Technical UniversityHigh school diploma Humanities/Humanistic Studies, High school diploma Humanities/Humanistic Studies at Gymnasium N9, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Github Skills (188)
servant10
game-development10
haskell10
linux10
hackage10
cabal10
science10
julia10
letter10
ghc10
arrows10
open-source10
overlay10
boilerplate10
game-engine9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
madjestic/Haskell-OpenGL-Tutorial
Dec 2013 - Jun 2018
Contributions:254 commits, 177 pushes, 7 comments in 4 years 6 months
openglhaskellboilerplate
madjestic/TinyMath
Jan 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:9 pushes in 10 years 2 months
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