Jonathan Williamson
Director at Autotroph
Lenexa, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Williamson is a director, co-founder and self-taught 3D animation artist and instructor with 12 years of experience building education platforms and tools for the Blender ecosystem. He co-founded CG Cookie and helped create and operate Blendermarket, guiding two bootstrapped ventures with remote teams worldwide to support and monetize Blender creators. A prolific educator, he authored Character Development in Blender 2.5, produced over 200 video tutorials and five training DVDs, and has taught workshops in New York, Amsterdam and Montreal. On the engineering side he was the primary developer of RetopoFlow, a widely used open-source retopology toolset for Blender, demonstrating hands-on Python and product development skills. Based in Lenexa, Kansas, he combines creative direction, curriculum design and tool development to make advanced character modeling accessible to both beginners and professionals.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Kansas State University
English, American Sign Language
Github Skills (2)
blender10
python10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CGCookie/retopoflow
Nov 2014 - Jan 2021
A suite of retopology tools for Blender
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:441 commits, 38 PRs, 303 pushes in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan was the primary developer, implementing the initial core functionality of RetopoFlow. Their contributions included writing foundational Python code and setting up the initial structure of the project. The user demonstrated expertise in creating and integrating the combined features from Contours and Polystrips retopology tools.
usabilitypythonblenderretopologyblender-addon
CGCookie/retopology-polystrips
Jul 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:80 commits, 2 pushes, 3 comments in 1 year 7 months
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