Lookdev Supervisor, Senior Grooming TD · SIGGRAPH 2025
Lookdev, Lighting, DMP · Oscar Nominated — Best Animated Feature, Golden Globe Winner
Senior Pipeline, Lookdev · Oscar Nominated — Best Animated Feature & Best Visual Effects
Pipeline TD · Oscar Nominated — Best Animated Feature
Pipeline TD, Lighting · Oscar Nominated — Best Animated Feature
Pipeline TD · Oscar Nominated — Best Animated Feature
Co-Technical Lighting Supervisor
Lookdev, Lighting, Compositing
Lighting, Compositing TD
"Fabricating Stop Motion Creatures Using CG Grooms: A Hybrid Approach for LAIKA's Wildwood"
Sole author and presenter. A first-of-its-kind pipeline bridging Houdini-based CG grooming with 3D-printed practical puppet fabrication for feature stop-motion animation.
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All game design and development in Unity and C#. RTX interactive path tracing and denoising. Sandbox mechanic with a dynamic IAP asset library and physics-based scene editing of environment and lighting. Released on Steam Early Access.
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All design and development, including touch and gesture input, game art, IAP, leaderboards, Game Center APIs, hex map transforms, physics, pathfinding, ray-traced 2D lighting, and NPC simulation.
Project Falcon: Hyperspace Simulator AR, Bedtime Defenders Interactive Storybook, StorySmith Interactive Storybook
I'm a VFX and pipeline leader with 23+ years of feature film experience — most of it at LAIKA, where I've contributed to all five of their award-winning films. Each was Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Feature, including a Best Visual Effects nomination for Kubo and the Two Strings and a Golden Globe win for Missing Link. In 2025 I presented original research at SIGGRAPH Vancouver on a hybrid CG/physical fabrication pipeline I designed and built for LAIKA's Wildwood.
My background sits at the intersection of technical systems and creative production — I've architected VFX pipelines, led cross-disciplinary teams, and contributed hands-on while wearing multiple hats. I'm currently seeking senior creative technology leadership roles where that combination is a feature, not a footnote.
Based near St. George, Utah. Open to remote.
