pixeltrain
pixeltrain is a provider of high-quality corporate trainings for 3D, VFX, Games and Animation.
As a Senior Trainer & Mentor, Helge Maus teaches 3D-, VFX & Game Dev software and workflows for over 20 years.
He delivers with his company pixeltrain | 3d | animation | game art | game dev in-house & remote training, workshops and coaching for the 3d, vfx & games industry. He works with studios, agencies, freelancers and indies from different visualization areas and from the games industry.
Meanwhile he focuses on Blender, Godot & Unity for his daily work and training. He loves working with indies and companies adapting FOSS software like Blender and Godot into their pipeline.
His strong industry background in teaching Houdini FX, Unity, Cinema 4D, Nuke, and Maya over many years helps him to train artists from the industry within a wide production context.
Helge has worked with clients such as Ubisoft, Rebellion, d3t, Tangent Animation, Mackevision, Jura, Vitra, Hugo Boss, eder GmbH, Jung-von-Matt, Pirates ´n Paradise, redseven Entertainment, ProSiebenSat.1, SKY Deutschland, NDR, rbb, Sony DADC, Intel and many more international companies. He has worked a couple of years as a freelancer for Adobe Systems, was a Maxon Lead Instructor for Cinema 4D and also beta tester for Maya, Cinema 4D, AfterEffects and Arnold.
Skills
Senior Trainer & Mentor – 3D | VFX | Animation | Game art | Game dev
Helge Maus delivers with his company pixeltrain | 3d | animation | game art | game dev in-house & remote training, workshops and coaching for the 3D, Games & VFX industry.
Blender for Production | Godot & Unity for Indie Game Development
HardSurface Modeling >> Blender | ND | HardOPS | BoxCutter | MeshMachine | Decal Machine | ZenUV
Texturing / Shading >> Adobe Substance Painter & Designer | Procedural Shaders | PBR Painter
Character & Animation Workflow >> Blender | Blender Grease Pencil | PixelOver
Photorealistic Rendering & Stylized – NPR >> Blender Cycles & EEVEE | Blender GOO Engine
Environment Building >> GeoScatter | Botaniq | Geometry Nodes | Houdini FX
VFX >> Blender | Flip Fluids | Geometry Nodes | Houdini FX
Game Design & Development >> Godot | Unity
Coding & Scripting >> GDScript | C#
Game Art >> Affinity Designer | Krita | PixelOver | Aseprite | 3D Coat
Game Tech / Technical Art / Environment FX >> Particles & Shaders (Godot / Unity) | Unity Shader Graph | Unity VFX Graph
Game Sound & Music >> Logic Pro | LMMS
Helge Maus does not simply train “tools”, but rather their practical application in demanding workflows. Make use of our competence in training, advice or production!
pixeltrain helps you to implement your digital visions for your customers through the coordinated use of individual training for your team, quick help in the case of a problem, and outsourcing or taking over project parts.
As a child, I scripted the first 3D animations on my C64. I was fascinated by the first special effects in films like “The Neverending Story”, “Flash Gordon” and of course “Star Trek” and “Star Wars”. After that I watched pretty much every SciFi and Fantasy film and tried to learn creating these worlds on the computer. The enthusiasm for the animated, computer-generated moving image has never let go of me and I certainly will never let go of it. Today I am happy that I can not only explain this world to other enthusiasts, but also bring it closer to them. I want to achieve it over and over again that 3D & vfx-Artists learn to understand their tools with joy and depth, with the goal that their ideas and visions learn to fly!
Helge Maus | pixeltrain