Mentorship case study · 3 months

Jwalin Adhyaru

Unreal environment with Houdini, SpeedTree and PCG

Landed a job after 18 months of searching

Houdini
SpeedTree
Unreal Engine
PCG
Substance Designer

Mentor's note

I worked with Jwalin as his mentor for three months, and it was great to see how much he grew in that time.

He approached Houdini, SpeedTree, and Unreal with curiosity and determination, even when things felt overwhelming at first. He takes feedback well, asks the right questions, and steadily improves by applying what he learns. It was especially nice to see his confidence grow alongside his skills.

The work

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In Jwalin's words

Mario was my mentor for 3 months, he taught me Houdini, speedtree from basics and gave me career guidance with portfolio review as well. I used to feel overwhelmed approaching Houdini but Mario’s teaching style makes learning new feel like piece of cake. He tries to understand students mindset and goals before teaching, this is very rare and one of the reasons why others mentors didn’t work for me. It’s still funny how I think SpeedTree is very easy software because the way Mario taught me. But in reality it’s actually very complex and I might have had never learned SpeedTree. But we learn new things to get forward in life, which was also an issue for me. I was looking for a job since 1.5 years but couldn’t land. Mario prepared me for interviews, curated my portfolio, helped me setup linkedin . This actually helped me land a job after 1.5 years ! So thank you Mario for everything and I would recommend everyone who is new, intermediate or some pro looking for fresh view to get mentorship from Mario.
Jwalin Adhyaru