ABOUT ME

My name is Greg Louden, I’m 22 years old, and I live in a small southern suburb in Sydney, New South Wales. I’ve lived overseas in England during primary school and the United States for 4 years when I was very young, so I like to think of myself as being quite worldly.

I went to a private school in Sydney where I particularly enjoyed English, History, Legal Studies and Software Design and Development. After high school and a few other job ideas I decided to do a “Bachelor of Computer Science”; and after going very well in my HSC (A Level / SAT equivalent) I got the opportunity to go to the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

I love to hang out with friends and family when I’m not at university or work. I also love to watch all different sorts of movies, read numerous books ranging from graphic novels to Japanese literature, learn Mandarin, watch pop culture documentaries, listen to all genres of music and play video games.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Animal Logic (AL)
- FX Technical Assistant on "Legend of the Guardians"(March 2010 - Present)

My role on "Legend of the Guardians" was to provide R&D and Maya generalist artist support through Python / MEL programming as well as optimising and assisting FX shot development.

FX shot work wise I was always helping FX artists optimise and fix their technical problems and I've worked personally on numerous shots that will be revealed with the fims release.

http://www.animallogic.com

UTS Games Studio
- Game Designer / Programmer (August 2008 - March 2010)

UTS Games Studio is a new research group that is focused upon innovating and prototyping new forms of interactive entertainment. The research areas range from "Serious Games" (Games for Change, Games for Health and Games for Education), "Virtual Worlds" and "Enabling Technologies" (researching better graphics, sounds, interaction and design).

http://games.it.uts.edu.au/

Creativity and Cognition Studios (CCS)
- Researcher / Member (August 2008 - March 2010)

CCS is a research community that spans UTS faculties and research centres, with a focus upon designing innovative strategies, methods and tools for enhancing creative experiences in creative communities.

http://www.creativityandcognition.com/

EDUCATION

University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
- Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (2007 - 2009)

I completed Computer Sciene degree with a "Distinction Average" ( > 80 Average) where I majored in Business Information Systems Management and submajored in Enterprise Sytem Development and Computer Graphics.

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE

- Adobe Flash
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Premiere
- AutoDesk Maya + MEL
- C++( & OPENGL)
- C#
- Objective C [iPhone]
- Framecycler (& IRCP Programming)
- Java
- Python
- Nuke Compositing Sofware
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project and Visio)

CONTACT DETAILS

Greg Louden
- Email: glouden[at]greglouden.net
- LinkedIn profile
- UTS Games Studio Profile