Corey Frew Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

United States

Manhattan Beach, California, United States

• Leading a team of 6 engineers, on site with the client during production of Avatar sequels. Responsible for the development, deployment and support of an constantly evolving set of software for the virtual production.
• Designed, pitched to client, and lead development of a number of key projects
• Daily management of crew to ensure a healthy and cohesive team, including adapting to a remote team during COVID
• Responsible for ensuring testing, deployment, education and support of an extensive range of software continually delivered from Weta NZ
• Interfacing with producers, supervisors, engineers and artists to regularly gather requirements, feedback and priorities to continually discuss with engineering teams at Weta NZ

Greater Los Angeles Area

Moved to Los Angeles to join a team of engineers on site with a client during production of Avatar sequels. Heavily contributed development, testing and deployment of an constantly evolving set of software for the virtual production pipeline.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Software engineer in the pipeline department, primarily focused on core pipeline tools usedstudio wide across a large number of projects.
• Worked in a team, developing the user interface (C++) and API (Python) on top of Weta’s proprietary scene description format
• Contributed to the development and support of Weta’s scene description format and various plugins (C++/Python)
• Heavily involved with the development and testing of the virtual production pipeline for Avatar sequels, representing Weta on a number of trips to LA
• Worked closely with various departments, identifying issues and inefficiencies with the software and potential solutions, producing supporting UX documents
• Built tools and plugins for the asset publishing framework

New Zealand

MentalCore was a commercially available rendering plugin for Maya & Mental Ray which I developed as a side project over a number of years. As the sole developer, I was responsible for design, development, documentation and customer support. I sold it to Oktobor Animation and worked with them to publicly release MentalCore. It was on the market from Dec.

Responsible for software development and technical direction for the studio wide pipeline. Oktobor Animation started as a new studio in 2010 and I was tasked with building a pipeline from the ground up. Oktobor produced animated TV series for Nickelodeon, DreamWorks and a number of other smaller projects.- Lead the design and development of the studio wide.

Auckland, New Zealand

Responsible for developing the lighting, rendering and compositing pipeline. Built tools, API’s, shaders and workflows to improve efficiency and quality for multiple TV shows, short films and pitches.

Auckland, New Zealand

Worked as a CG generalist on multiple TV shows, also developing pipeline tools to streamline and automate workflows.