COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
Taste of Hunger VR Contribution: 3D asset lead, light artist, animator
and custom retolopogy tools in Houdini.
ANIMALS Contribution: Technical director, FX RnD, pipeline,
rendering and compositing lead, environment artist & light artist.
MANA Contribution: Compositing and 3D elements.
SPAM JAM a weekend gamejam, traverse the pink desert and collect music.
Click here to play it on Itch.io.
PERSONAL WORK
WYRD is the first VR piece that I have authored and built.
It is somewhere between a prophetic dream and a cursed video game.
It is a temporal collage that takes you to a place where everything is language.
ETERNAL GRAY is the first unity game that I have authored and programmed.
Click here to play it on Itch.io.
Wheel of Fortune videoloop wall art
exhibited and sold at Galleri Sandberg.
Spider Man videoloop wall art.
Untitled 3D printed sculpture, painted with red UV paint
DRAWINGS
CV
Education
2020 – 2023 The Funen Art Academy, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Denmark.
2015 – 2018 The Animation Workshop, Bachelor of Computer Graphic Arts, Denmark.
2012 – 2015 Visuel HF, highschool with an extended curriculum on visual art, Denmark.
2011 – 2012 Ørestad Gymnasium, Mediefag B+, Denmark.
2010 – 2012 Station Next, weekly film school for teenagers, Denmark.
2009 – 2011 Den Klassiske Tegneskole, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Denmark.
Employment
2023 3D asset artist and unity developer, for unreleased VR project, produced by MORPH, Denmark
2023 VJ and Animator for the event “AFTRYK”, supported by Odense municipality and Albani Fonden, Denmark.
2023 Visual development, unreleased VR project, produced by MORPH, Denmark.
2022 Instagram filters, “NECROMANCER” for Carpark festival.
2022 AR development for the H.C. Andersen Festival, hired by Galleri Rasmus.
2020 3D environment lead for Taste of Hunger VR, produced by MAKROPOL, Denmark.
2020 Pitch Deck development for End of Night, produced by MAKROPOL, Denmark.
2020 Pitch Deck development for Taste of Hunger, produced by MAKROPOL, Denmark.
2020 Environment and FX assets for Martyr, produced by MAKROPOL, Denmark.
2019 Photogrammetry & motion capture cleanup for canceled music video, produced by MAKROPOL, Denmark.
2019 The Animation Workshop, mentor for visuel HF.
2018 SIGNA and MAKROPOL, The Open Heart, VR development.
2018 Balenciaga commercial by Yilmaz Sen & Makropol, rigging.
2018 Collab VJ-ing for I Hate Models, at TechnoKunst, A38, by Glowing Bulbs, Hungary.
2018 Visuals for European poetry slam championship, by Glowing Bulbs, Hungary.
2015 – 2018 Viborg Ungdomsskole, drawing teacher for a class of youth and kids.
Workshops
2022 Nordic Game Jam, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 Games For Change game jam, Games For Change Europe, Denmark.
2017 Viborg Animation Festival, director's workshop, Denmark.
2017 TRAVERSE, VR installation workshop with MAKROPOL, Denmark.
2017 Euranim, Projection Mapping workshop, England, with Glowing Bulbs.
2017 Euranim, Projection Mapping workshop, France,with Glowing Bulbs.
2016 Puppeteering and magic trick workshop, Carte Blanche, Viborg, Denmark.
2014 Catch 14, Art and Performance workshop, with Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Denmark.
2012 Actor Instruction, workshop, with Jens Arentzen, Denmark.
Residencies
2023 Nida art colony, study group exploring the theme of “Rites of a secular age”, Lithuania.
2021 Writers retreat, Romsø, Denmark.
2019 Open Workshop, granted to work and develop the VR project “WYRD”, Denmark.
2019 SPAM workshop, experiments in animated collaboration and flat hierarchy, Denmark.
Exhibitions
2023 “60%”, 3. års afgangsudstilling, Filosoffen Odense,
2022 Rundgang, Det Fynske Kunstakademi, Odense, Denmark.
2021 Sharing Stories, Galleri Sandberg, Odense, Denmark.
2015 Zydhavn Boyz, Vestas Hallen, Viborg, Denmark.
2014 Catch14, ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark.
Awards
2019 Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Lotte Reiniger Award for “Animals”, Germany.
2019 OFF(Odense film festival) talent award for “Animals”, Denmark.
2012 Nordic Youth Film Festival, best film in category under 20, for "In a coconut shell", written by me, Denmark.
ViljamSmed@gmail.com or phone +45 50 85 95 15
