Robin-Yann Storm

@rystorm.com

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Product & Tool UX Designer, Freelance Workflow Consultant @ https://rystorm.com/ Previously Hytale, Apple, Guerrilla, IO-Interactive, and more. Organizes the Tool Design & OpenUSD Roundtables at GDC. I get really excited about workflows!

Me inside a big inflatable shaderball
Old walking Utah teapots from previous years
My name on a “Contributors” list for SIGGRAPH
A slide covered in math and circle drawings
The Koelnmesse logo highlighted in red on a SIGGRAPH Asia flyer
Many people clustered around boards with posters on them
Me T posing behind the SIGGRAPH logo at SIGGRAPH
A photo of the abandoned towers. Exposed concrete, broken windows, and graffiti is shown all over them
A nightclub with many people in it, and lights across the room
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Me and Brendon standing outside in LA. I have a thumb up
A logo saying USDatingSim
Many people waiting in line at a hallway in the LA convention center
The board at the end of the roundtable, covered in hand scribble notes
Me and Ezra standing next to a sign of the OpenUSD Roundtable
Ingredient vs Instrument Cheese = Piano Meat = Violin Ricotta = Felted Piano
SONY PICTURES mageworks Summary Previous Show Averages GOAT Asset Kickbacks 75% kickback reduction Overall Asset Spend 50% overall spend reduction Animation Shot Productivity 25% Productivity increase
2026/07/19 09:00 SIGGRAPH 2026 Los Angeles 19-23 JUL TALKS Workflows it is 9am - 10:30am • Sunday 19 July Petree D 9:00 Fast, High-Volume Asset Imports and Exports Using Unreal Engine and OpenUSD 9:20 Assets in Motion (AIM) - Injecting life into a static and linear asset building process 9:40 Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender - Strike Force A Hybrid In-House Production Model for a Modern 2D/3D Animated Feature Pipeline 10:00 Production-Driven Data Management for a Service-Based Pipeline Full Conference Supporter Full Conference
Publish From Unreal Engine Outliner to a USD Stage, with images of a stadium visible
A ribbon wall with ribbons on when your first year at the conference was
My badge for SIGGRAPH, with tags attached for speaker, stroopwafels, USD, and first time attendee
A physical bright golden shaderball costume
Really tasty red cakes kind of things in plastic cups
My badge for DigiPro 2026, with my name, company, and two drink tickets
A jar of aoili looking suspiciously red and spicy
The LA convention center
A suburbia seen from an airplane, so the many houses and even a stripmall shown, but not a single solar panel.
Me sitting in a shirt covered in kittens
PC Processor Usage by Manufacturer, January 2025 to June 2026, showing the AMD side getting larger over time, until it is 45.99% AMD and 54.01% intel
A LinkedIn post from Mark DeLoura saying the GDC tram is looking for a Conference Director, with a linkedin job application link
Many flags on a field of grass in Amsterdam
Me holding the Play Nice book
A picture of Mamdani saying "Me when I pay 50% taxes to support the community" on the right, and on the left a picture of the 'Don't tread on me' flag with text saying 'Me when the municipality forces me to talk to a robot'
The "gravitational pull of pepsi" meme showing an insane chart that supposedly pulls the viewers eye to the pepsi logo while in a supermarket aisle
My face with text saying: SIGGRAPH 2026, Los Angeles, 19-23 JUL, Robin-Yann Storm, RYStorm, The OpenUSD Roundtable: Using an Open Source File Format in Film and Game Dev Pipelines (19 July)
The 'On Wishlist' checked, and a note saying 'item added to you wishlist!'
My face, my name, title, and "UX Designer for Tools & Workflow" 17+ years, talked at conferences around the world, and the title: Designing Tools that Empower Designers. Saturday, July 11th. 10:00 PDT, www.funsmith.club
Emi’s post about the for you feed being good, shown as the first post on my For You tab
A food truck covered in AI generated posters
The state list, with Quebec highlighted on it
A state / province dropdown on a website showing Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, but also Australian Capital Territory, Christmas Island, and other ones I have never seen before.
"Always has been" meme
A roundtable session called The Tool UX Design Roundtable - From Tool Pain to Workflow Gain is shown, and a panel called Tool Design: Designing the Future Workflows of Game Development is shown.
A cat on a couch outside, completely splayed out and looking really chill
A list of options for sessions, including AmAs, Fireside Chats, Lectures, Microtalks, Panels, but also a 60 minute, 90 minute, or 2 hour Forum
Simspons meme: My goodness what an idea, why didn't I think of that?
A finished game of Hegemony, a big board with loads of colored card, pawns, pieces, and points across it.
The @JangaFX account on Twitter, which says in its bio: Real-time non-hallucinogenic tools for FX and Environment Art Try the Elemental Suite: http://jangafx.com/try Join our discord server: http://discord.gg/jangafx
A graphic showing Sunday to Sunday, with each event shown underneath the days mentioned in the above post, and one section at the bottom saying: Drinking Water, Wearing Good Shoes, Eating Enough, which spans across all days.
A post from ioi on LinkedIn: Dear gaming community, For a good while, it has been all positive news from IO Interactive. We remain humbled and honored by the response to our latest outing with a young, unproven Bond. A bold new story and a take on one of the most famous characters in entertainment, which the world has embraced with love. However, today we have to share some more downbeat news. A relationship with an external partner on our own IP, Project Fantasy, has come to an end. This means we have to adapt to this new reality and its short-term consequences, including staffing decisions, which is what is happening as we write this update, and we are fully committed to supporting those affected through this challenging transition. Project Fantasy is a game, a world, and an IP that we absolutely love and remain 100% committed to, now and in the future. This wonderful universe will see the light of day.
Matrix meme: This is the seventh time I have had to argue against yellow paint, and I've become exceedingly efficient at it
An image with a blogpost saying: Asset Zoos: When we introduced the asset browser, we knew that while it is practical to find assets, designers routinely use asset zoos. We have updated our Asset Browser to let you create asset zoos from the browser. You can create from your search results, or from your selection and have them inserted in your current scene for expediency, or on a dedicated scene that you can easily share. Let the record show that Robin-Yann made it clear that no asset browser is complete without an Asset Zoo. (With the Robin-Yann part being underlined, and an asset zoo image being shown below)
A giant dome with glass and steel below which are fancy plush chairs lights, plants, and wood
The Strasbourg cathedral as seen from the floor
People lieing down on the floor in front of the Strasbourg cathedral
Me in a bar with a cheeta shirt and a golden crown behind me
A very apologetic looking wolf
Many taxidermied birds on display