Hello, my name is Eric (aka ëRiC or ewerybody) from Laniakea Supercluster, Milky Way Galaxy, 3rd planet of the "Sun" system and this is my website/blog for personal ramblings, collections of random stuff I come across and aaaaaall the projects I want to do and maybe even am doing already.

Who am I?

Professionally - I was a Special Effects- and Technical Artist for 24 years on about 30 video game titles until 2025. My last position was Principal Technical Artist at Crytek for 13 years in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
"Technical Artist" What is that? Here is a pretty comprehensive video from Riot Games on YouTube about techart. So, that might be a lot of things already and frankly it is! I used to do effects and had a kind of catch phrase like "fire, water, smoke, magic, explosions, butterflies" to outline what it's about. But that evolved over destruction simulation, scripting add-ons for 3D tools into full time tool & pipeline programming. Mainly with Python and Qt.

Privately - I'm a tinkerer at heart. Since coding is the ultimate tinkering on the computer I do a bit of that but also do 2D, 3D and vector graphics. I’m also into DJing and producing electronic music of the style (deep, jazz, brazil, vocal, tech-) House, Breakbeats, Swing/Jazz and easy listening breaks for many many years now. I did music as well drumming in Berlin in the samba groups drumkitchen and Sussurro do Asfalto. Furthermore I did a bit of demoscene stuff for the group Brain Control.

Teaching beginners how to swing dance or how to code was pretty exciting as well! And I'm looking forward doing more like that somewhen.

What's this about?

As I'm interested in all these things space, FOSS, streetart, cycling, sketching, cooking, society, music, language, technology there might eventually be a bit or more about any of these topics. I'll try to make it semantically accessible via tags. Thanks for reading so far! Much appreciated! ☺️