Thomas Holt

I want to extend my heartfelt sympathy for the layoffs yesterday at Archiact, as reported by the company itself (https://lnkd.in/eyg7g_2G). These situations are challenging for everyone involved, and our community stands ready to offer support in any way we can. I'm thinking of you all today. If your role was affected by this news, please make use of the support available across our three platforms. Specifically, I recommend checking out the Games Org Support Posts in Home 1. These resources are highly effective, with ample data to back their success. Home 1 - 🔗 AMIRSATVAT.COM: Our main hub provides 15 resources to assist you in finding work, featuring a fully updated design. - 🔗 Games Org Support Posts: Find a template at AMIRSATVAT.COM (Category 4, Resource 10). If you can provide information from your team (with their consent), I’ll help edit and disseminate the final product, reaching 100,000+ people. These posts are highly effective in increasing visibility, and we've done 98 of them. Home 2 - 🔗 Discord: Join us at discord.gg/amirsatvat, our live extension of community resources. With nearly 3,800 members, we are currently in an open-join phase. Home 3 - 🔗 LinkedIn: Our community here includes over 89,000 members, with 1-3 daily posts offering support and career assistance in the games industry. How the Broader Community Can Help: - Spread the Word: Reshares and comments on this post amplify the visibility of these resources. - Offer Support: Utilize the 13 ways listed on AMIRSATVAT.COM under "How You Can Help" to assist, or simply lend an ear or advice on our Discord server. - Join Our Movement: Volunteer with us at AMIRSATVAT.COM to support our colleagues in the games industry. Our network has facilitated over 2,000 jobs and 37,000 coaching conversations to date, the largest impact of any games organization on earth, and has been visited by millions of gamers lifetime.

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Sadly, this week, AR pioneer Archiact had to close its doors after 11 years. Another independent studio in London — Payload Studios had to lay off 25% of its workforce. Both the studios informed this on LinkedIn. I looked for impacted individuals and found 7 immensely talented professionals who were impacted by Archiact and Payload's layoffs. I am sending this post in support of them and humbly request my 50K community members to repost it. 🙏 Your single repost might take this post to a recruiter’s feed! Let’s do our bit :) Alana Ah Tani — Studio administrator or more of a generalist for Payload Studios who takes care of recruitment, human resource policies, various projects, events and various studio initiatives. Matthew Guest — A talented community manager for Payload Studios who has also worked for big studios like Bioware, Electronic Arts, and Sony Interactive Entertainment EU. You would definitely want someone like him to lead your community initiative. Julia Canfora — Archiact’s director of human resources who worked with the studios for over 4 years. Julia managed a growing team of 100+ professionals in Archiact. Other than games, she has also worked in the movie and film industry. Neil Marshall — The lead technical artist who was directing the technical art department at Archiact on their title Journey to Foundation. Neil has also worked on the games Slugterra VR and Bogey Ogres Experience. Overall, he has a decade plus experience as a technical artist and has worked for Gameloft too. Manuel Silva — A 3d artist, lighting artist, and VFX artist with a boatload of talent and experience. Other than Journey to Foundation, Manuel has worked on Captain America Winter Soldier (2011), Ghost Recon and Crash Bandicoot. Check out his portfolio here: [https://www.silvs.ca](https://www.silvs.ca/) Rafael Vazquez — Founder of Chupacabra Game Studios who was the creative director and product owner for Archiact. Rafael has worked on titles like Meta’s Horizon Worlds, Marvel Dimension of Heroes and many more. Thomas Edmunds — Principal software engineer who started as a software engineer at Archiact and spent over 7 years with them. During that time, he worked on titles like Evasion, Freediver, and Journey to Foundation. *** If you are an impacted game artist, designer, producer, or tester, I am offering you a 100% scholarship if you wish to learn game programming from programmers of renowned game studios. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gn-_Bdib *** #layoffsupport #gamedev #gamingindustry

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Unreal Engine 5: Developers can now access a new Audio2Face-3D plugin for AI-powered facial animations (where lips and faces move in sync with audio speech) in Autodesk Maya. https://lnkd.in/grs4U2ch

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Further prototyping for Project Oppidum, a living village RPG: What type of restaurant should go in the bottom right? What should we build with all the extra lumber?

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More innovation in 3D modeling and animation.

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Here’s the rendered video of my latest art project R&D test where #motioncapture data drives fluid #simulations and emissive #shaders . Made with INSYDIUM Fused #xparticles vertex maps and #cycles4d

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