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Fixing what breaks out of animation
Day to day, that means writing new scripts, repairing old ones in Python, and keeping animation's output moving cleanly downstream.
PIPELINE SUPERVISOR · SONY PICTURES IMAGEWORKS · VANCOUVER
I build the plumbing that keeps animation moving.
I started out rigging and animating characters. For the last decade-plus at Imageworks I've been on the other side of the shot: writing the Python tools, publish pipelines and fixes that get work from animation to final frame on films like Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and The Mitchells vs. the Machines.
graph_editor · ball_ctrl.translateY24 fps
11+
years at Sony Pictures Imageworks
15
feature film and series credits
2008
first rig and first animation
Python
the language most of the fixes are written in
01 / THE PIPELINE
Artists make the shots. My job lives in the arrows.
Every department hands its work to the next one. A pipeline TD makes sure that handoff actually happens: the file publishes, the next team can load it, and when something breaks coming out of animation, it gets fixed before it holds up the show.
Layout
Animation
Character FX
FX
Lighting
Comp
publish/
A publish pipeline built for one show
When a specialized production didn't fit the standard flow, I built it a separate publish pipeline of its own.
crowds/
Crowd color variation, studio-wide
On The Angry Birds Movie I wrote additional color variation code for crowds. Imageworks rolled it out across the whole studio.
rigs/
Rigger first, so I speak animator
I rigged and animated characters before moving to pipeline, including overhauling a studio rigging script and writing tools to speed up animators' workflow.
02 / SELECTED CREDITS
Animated features and live-action VFX.
- Forgotten IslandPipeline Supervisor
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VersePipeline Lead
- Thor: Love and ThunderPipeline TD
- Spider-Man: No Way HomeVisual Effects Lead
- The Mitchells vs. the MachinesPipeline Technical Director
- VivoPipeline Technical Director
- The Falcon and the Winter SoldierPipeline TD
- Cerebus the AardvarkRigging
- Jumanji: The Next LevelPipeline Technical Director
- The Angry Birds Movie 2Pipeline TD
- Live StreamPipeline Technical Director
- Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer VacationPipeline Technical Director
- The MegDigital Artist
- Suicide SquadDigital Artist
- The Angry Birds MovieCharacter Pipeline TD
- The Little Painter · Labor of LoveCharacter TD · Animator & Rigger
03 / THE PATH
From keyframes to the code underneath them.
I studied at California State University, Chico, animating monsters for a game mod. Each job after that pulled me a little further into the technical side, until the scripts became the job.
2025 – now
Pipeline Supervisor, Sony Pictures Imageworks
2015 – 2025
Pipeline TD, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Ten years and thirteen productions, from The Angry Birds Movie to Thor: Love and Thunder.
2013
Character Technical Director, Arconyx Animation Studios
Overhauled the studio's rigging script and built tools to speed up animators.
2012 – 2013
Animator / Rigger, Studio B Flat
Rigged and animated every enemy character, plus the hero, Bronto.
2009 – 2011
Freelance rigging, web and graphics
Character rigging, plus web development and graphics for FreeHand Music.
2009
Animation Intern, Crab Cove
Facial and character animation for Sal the Seal, in Maya.
2008
Animator, Chico State Game Studios
Led animation on High Noon, an Unreal 3 mod: rigging and animating monsters and weapons.