About Rune

Information

Jun 26 2010

Hi, I'm Rune, I'm from '83 and I live in the city of Copenhagen in Denmark, which is a tiny country in northern Europe.

I've been fascinated with graphics, design, programming, and multimedia practically all my life and now I work in the games industry. As a child I spent my time drawing and building inventions in LEGO. When we got a computer I took up 2D graphics and animation and later 3D graphics. 3D scripting in POV-Ray was my introduction to the world of programming and simulations, and I began making simple games with authoring tools and later with real programming languages. Now I'm finished with my education in software development and game programming and I'm currently working for Unity Technologies making game development tools.

While browsing rune|vision, try to look at the dates and you'll clearly see my progression. Please enjoy, and leave a few comments if you like. :)

- Rune Skovbo Johansen

Education

Nov 14 2006

In the summer 2002 I finished my three years at Aarhus Business College. I didn't choose the business college because I'm particularly fond of business or because I think I'm going to use it very much. I simply found the business college to be a better choice for me than the other alternatives available.

That same summer I started studying Computer Science and Multimedia at the University of Aarhus. Computer science because I like computers, programming, and to analyze and solve problems. Multimedia because I like to be creative and work with graphics, design, interactivity and art. However, after having studied it for one year (before I ever got to the multimedia part), I concluded that Computer Science was not a study well suited for me after all, since the emphasis is on theoritical math and lots of formalism from a technical point of view, with very little focus on the users of the software, and with practically no room for creativity, which is very important to me.

So in the summer 2003 I started studying Information Studies instead (still at the University of Aarhus), which is also focused on information technology, but from a more humane angle with emphasis on the interaction between man and machine. "The departmental research in Information Studies includes historical, sociological, communicative, and design-oriented approaches to the study of the development and application of information technology on the level of individuals, organisations and society." It includes some programming and system development too.

After I completed the two years of Information Studies I took the the third and remaining year of my Bachelor Degree under a Supplementary Programme in Multimedia, which allowed me to finally study what I intended to from the beginning. I chose to also get a Master's Degree in Multimedia with specialisation in Game Programming, which was one of four multimedia specialisations my university offered. In the summer of 2009 I finally finished my Master's Thesis about Semi-Procedural Animation for Character Locomotion.

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