Jeff Thompson
Senior Lighting Designer + Tool Builder
Las Vegas, NV · jjathompson4@gmail.com
Experience
HDR Inc., Las Vegas, NV
HDR Inc., Las Vegas, NV
HDR Inc., Omaha, NE
HDR Inc., Omaha, NE
Selected Projects
https://www.hdrinc.com/portfolio/orange-county-sanitation-district-headquarters-complex
Orange County, CA
Software Projects
Converts physics-based rendering materials to radiance materials for use with CS and other radiance-based renderers.
https://github.com/jjathompson4/Iray-Mapper
3ds Max sub-application that auto-converts materials from any proprietary render engine to Iray/MDL materials via GUI with overrides, & customization. Saves my team 1000+ hours/year.
https://github.com/jjathompson4/stereoflux
Prototype for my upcoming web-based lighting design platform. Built with headless Cycles render engine mated to Three.js web viewer. Validated against CIE 171:2006.
https://ldp-frontend.onrender.com
Modular web tools for various aspects of the lighting design workflow.
Presentations & Talks
IALD Enlighten Americas Conference 2022, NYC
This presentation included a review of the innovations in the Hollywood special effects industry and video game graphics industries and covered case studies of adopting similar innovations for the AEC/Lighting Design industry. PBR, GPU-accelerated graphics, etc. CEU and AIA-accredited.
IES Local Chapters, Omaha, NE / Kansas City, MO / Des Moines, IA
Presented multiple variations of the same presentation to several IES chapters. CEU and AIA-accredited.
IALD Enlighten Americas 2020, San Diego (Virtual)
Case studies for using PBR-techniques in lighting design and analysis workflows. CEU and AIA-accredited. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryzLrOGXGNA
Education
University of Nebraska, Lincoln + Omaha, NE
University of Nebraska, Lincoln + Omaha, NE
Skills & Tools
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