Mike Ton

Learning to filter and chart tables, csv files, xml/JSON docs has been one of the more interesting problems I encountered working on Halo 4.  It's pure data shepherding.  And when I was doing manually it would take nearly half a day; so I wrote scripts to automate that :

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak0Zu3w86Ux5dEtYZkpuV1Y5dWpfRG1KTTNKSEZ1RXc&usp=drive_web#gid=4

Data once it's filtered for relevancy and visualized as information becomes highly valuable in understanding trends and detecting spikes. Properties that are highly desirable for tracking and reporting memory usage.

This tool will render each individual object in a Maya scene to a thumbnail.  Useful as a means to catalog your art assets.  Additionally it'll also generate a stickman marker to give a sense of scale to the size of each object.  

Code available at: https://github.com/miketon/Maya_Tools/tree/master/browserUtil

I do a healthy amount of graphic debugging and profiling.  This includes taking screenshots, making A/B comparisons, and laying them out into a report format.  This script automates the layer->strip(or stack) aspect of that.  

Code is available at: https://github.com/miketon/Photoshop_Scripts/tree/master/source

Next up is updating this with a UI interface and generalizing it into a much friendlier tool.  Currently things like space offset between stacks are hardcoded.  

Here's a script to import SVG to Maya curves.  Built for a small micro-project and tested with Inkscape files.  Available at Github : https://github.com/miketon/Maya_Tools/tree/master/SVG_CurveImport