About – SaphireStudio

Phil Gosch, Technical artist from Graz, Austria.

My name is Phil Gosch, I’m an independent Software Developer & Technical/3D Artist from Graz, Austria.

Originally coming from hobby game development, I started using 3D software in 2006, after searching for a way to create some assets for the games I developed. After some time using 3D apps I realized I was totally into it und that I liked creating 3D art and really spent a lot of time with it. I then additionally started learning art fundamentals as well as 2D software like Photoshop. I later got back into the development/programming area when I started university. Currently I specialize in game development/computergraphics with a healthy interest in new media like Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR). My main areas as a freelancer are in currentgen to next-gen gameready assets, illustration, product visualization as well as software engineering, game development and tool development.

I have experience in nearly all areas of CG, including hard-surface or organic modeling/sculpting, shading/texturing/UV-mapping, lighting/compositing and game engines like Unity5/Unreal4.

Nearly all of my free time is spent creating artworks, programming on side projects or learning new stuff/techniques and software. I’m also an active contributor to the local gamedev scene and helping organizing events, gamejams or conferences in our area as a founding member of the gamedev association GameDevGraz in my area.

Software

Skills

Organic & Hardsurface Modeling	High/Lowpoly Modeling	Sculpting	Photogrammetry	Retopology
C#	C/C++	Custom Tool Development	Python	GLSL/HLSL
PBR/Stylized Texturing	UV Mapping	Shading/Materials	Lighting & Lightmapping	Compositing
Game Design	Art Direction	Concept Art	Rigging	Animation

Teaching Experiences

Game Development/Blender Workshop GameJam Graz, 2012
http://www.saphirestudio.at/wptest/blender-workshop-in-graz-okt-2012/

3D Virtual Worlds Summerschool University of Göttingen, 2014
https://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/de/neuigkeiten/detail/article/summer-school-digital-textual-analysis-3-d-objects-and-virtual-worlds/

3D Worlds & Reconstruction Springschool University of Göttingen, 2015
http://www.gcdh.de/en/teaching/summer-schools/gcdh-spring-school-2015

Blender Workshop FH Hagenberg, 2015
http://fhlug.at/2015/02/kn-3d-modeling-and-animation-with-blender/

3D Worlds & Reconstruction Advanced Springschool University of Göttingen, 2016
http://www.gcdh.de/en/teaching/summer-schools/2016-gcdh-international-expert-spring-school-2015

Physically based rendering Workshop Blender Usergroup, 2017

Photogrammetry and 3D Model Optimization Workshop GDG, 2017

Unity Basics and Optimization Workshop, 2017

Internal Workshops at mostly IT companies 2018

Blender 101 Course at TU LV

Unity Basics and Advanced Concepts Workshop (2 days) at a Company in Graz 2019

Blender to Unity/Unreal Workflow talk at local Meetup 2019

Talk about AR Frameworks at GameDev Days Graz 2019

Workshop about Content Creation for Realtime Usage

Workshop CAD/Photoscan to Unity, Optimisation in Blender