Hi šŸ‘‹šŸ»,

Iā€™m Valerio Viperino, a 3* years old dude currently based in the SF Bay Area (California, USA).

You can find me online as vvzen or yaskebasi.

If you just want to know me professionally, here's my cv.

TL;DR:

I'm a hacker, t(h)inkerer and lover of Computer Generated Graphics.
I love playing around with 3d printers, lasers or custom made CNC machines. I enjoy talking about art and philosophy of language. I pay my bills by automating VFX workflows and writing Python (and Rust) code.

Bio

For a longer and boring bio.. continue reading..

Straight after High School, in 2012, I attended the 2nd edition of Rainbow Academy Digital Production course. I got out with 100/100 and I straight after that I started to work in Rainbow CGI on the shading and texturing of an animated movie and 2 tv series.

Having had enough of the repetitive stuff you have to perform everyday in a 3D studio and at the same time wanting more creative freedom, in 2014 I quit that job and started freelancing in the motion graphics world. During this period, I had the chance to gather experience in different fields:

  • I collaborated with a Milan creative agency and created and edited footage for Borsa Italiana, Ferragamo and Cavalli (2014)
  • I collaborated with Roberto Fazio Studio in the creation of a projection mapped 3d video (2014)
  • I collaborated with the NAGEL duo for the creation of an Audio Visual concert (2015)

Then, at the end of 2015, after reading Learning Processing, I fell in love with programming. To strengthen my knowledge, I attended a mobile app development course at Politecnico di Milano and finally entered the dev world, which is how I got to pay my bills.

  • In 2016, I started working as a freelance dev, first as a junior Android mobile dev
  • I then moved to the frontend and backend learning the ropes with Javascript+NodeJS
  • Finally, I went back to the CG world, automating workflows with Python and working as a Pipeline TD (2017+).

At the end of 2017 I won a scolarship and I flew to the UK to pursue an MA in Computational Art at the Goldsmiths University of London (2018). I worked in Rome for one year as a Pipeline TD in Frame By Frame, then moved to London to join Framestore, one of the best companies I've ever worked for.

Now I live and work as a Pipeline Developer for Apple, where they requested that I relocate to the barren Silicon Valley.

To know more about my tech side, see &code.

To know more about my creative stuff, see !art.

You can drop me an email at valerio(dot)viperino(at)gmail(dot)com



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