Luke O'Neill Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

British Columbia, Canada

• Develop the studio FX pipeline and handle all FX issues across two FX heavy shows• Built custom HDAs for caching, publishing, rendering, import/export, particles, volumes, and RBDs• Built Unreal import, render, sequencer, and menu creation tools • Create a framework for environment management supporting Rocky9, Cent7, and Win10• Developed new system for Deadline submissions and Deadline plugins

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Led and participated in building a 3D animation pipeline around Unreal Engine• Created the Unreal render pipeline for the studio• Created asset import and assembly tools, publish tools, and Perforce tools• Created a light propagation tool in Maya

Toronto, Canada Area

• Helped implement a USD pipeline for animation television productions, building various tooling in Houdini Solaris context to support look development and VFX• Developed a texture creation process utilizing Substance Designer, Substance Automation Toolkit, and Houdini Solaris to automatically create geometry maps, texture maps, and Redshift shader networks described in USD• Built Solaris LOP networks in Houdini to represent volume, particle effects, and rigid body dynamics in USD• Took on the role of lead surfacing TD, handling all look development tools and issues• Mentored Junior TDs, teaching best practices, design patterns and troubleshooting bugs• Introduced, oversaw the adoption, and built tooling around pytest and Python logging module

Toronto, Canada Area

• Design and develop robust studio launcher taking into consideration the support ofconcurrent projects and a multitude of applications and plugins

Toronto, Canada Area

• Research, integrate, and build tooling around various plugins and renderers into theanimation pipeline (Yeti, VRay, RenderMan)

Toronto, Canada Area

• Supervise the construction site electrical layout, managing a team of 5 engineers and electrical technicians, in a fast-paced, high-pressure power plant project (grounding/cabletrays/ductbanks)

Toronto, Canada Area

• Managed several projects consisting of teams in multiple countries, accurately identifying, tracking, and helping to resolve issues

Video Game Design Technologies

Bachelor’S Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical/Space Engineering

• The science and implementation behind space vehicle design, orbit determination, space communications, attitude control, propulsion.