Aylwin Villanueva Email & Phone Number

Elemental, Inside Out 2, ElioSpecializing in Houdini, Solaris and USD pipeline and tools

Lightyear - 2022

San Francisco Bay Area

- Established sets structure and foundation in ILM’s visual effects pipeline for digital environments- Developed tools and standardize workflows from different environment authoring software packages to streamline set construction, set dressing, set interaction and shot work - Collaborated with engineers, show and department leads, and supervisors across 5 different sites to maintain a consistent environment workflow and address technical issues, identify new challenges, and prioritize development- Simultaneously served as lead technical director in shows for environment layout, planning, set dressing, shot lighting, rapid prototyping and development for show specific requirements- Developed templates and scripts to utilize groom and FX technologies for procedural environment creationStar Wars Episode VII: Force Awakens (2015)Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)Kong: Skull Island (2017)Ready Player One (2018)Avengers: Infinity Wars (2018)Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)Avengers: End Game (2019)Star Wars Episode IX: Rise of Skywalker (2019)Space Jam 2 (2021)

San Francisco Bay Area

- Pipeline planning, tool and plug-in development, and shot support for San Francisco and Singapore studios for Lucasfilm’s first feature animated film, Strange Magic - Promoted from an assistant TD role after a year, and credited as Lead Pipeline Technical Director- Interfaced with supervisors and production management to anticipate issues, identify pipeline bottlenecks, improve shot production workflows and department turnovers - Provided global support with asset and shot quality-control and debugging, batch script and software plugin development to streamline artist work and assist content creation - Maintained an efficient production cycle even with changes of show leadership, core system infrastructures, constant changing editorial cut, and switching different software packages mid-production.Strange Magic (2015)

- Lucasfilm's first feature animated film, Strange Magic.- Pipeline planning, tool and plug-in development, and shot support for San Francisco and Singapore studios- Interfaced with supervisors and production management to anticipate issues, identify pipeline bottlenecks, improve shot production workflows and department turnovers - Provided global support with asset and shot quality-control and debugging, batch script and software plugin development to streamline artist work and assist content creation

San Francisco Bay Area

- Lucasfilm Animation's first feature animated film, Strange Magic- Pre-production asset management and quality-control for artists and production pipeline- 3D storyboard pipeline development

San Francisco, Ca

- Collaborated with 7 other engineers to design and develop ILM's render farm management tool - Developed supporting scripts for artists and production management to change render priorities, quickly check on queue statuses and request more processing power - Code testing, debugging and maintenance for previous farm management tools - Provide render farm support to technical directors for multiple productions simultaneously

-Pinocchio’s Peckish Pest (2009, unreleased), Prep and Landing (2009), and Tic Tock Tale (2010)-Developed Python tools and scripts for Disney animators to track art assets and improve workflow-Debugged pipeline and rendering issues for production-Contributed to layout set up and development, as well as quality-control-Served as Technical Director in a 3D Pinocchio short produced by 13 artists.

B.S. - Informatics, Software Engineering

Graduated with magna cum laude honors

B.A. - Studio Art, Digital Art Concentration

Also graduated with magna cum laude