Robert S Hurlburt Email & Phone Number

Manhattan Beach, California, United States

- Working with Lightstorm Entertainment & WetaFX on the Avatar sequels (Avatar 3 currently in production).

Greater Los Angeles, California, United States

- Representing WetaFX at Unity, continued development on the Avatar sequels.

Greater Los Angeles, California, United States

- Provide on-site client support during the production of the Avatar sequels. Working within a small team, contributing to the deployment and support of a constantly evolving set of software for the virtual production pipeline. - Development of artist tools and workflows in a high pressure environment.- Supply front line support during the performance.

Glendale, California, United States

- Helped develop a new Modeling pipeline, using REST to launch 3rd party apps and pass data downstream.- Played a key role in transitioning the studio from our in-house media playback tool to a third-party solution (RV).- Joined R&D to develop PoC's to evaluate Shotgun and the SG Toolkit for studio adoption.- Conducted UX research to infer how artists want.

Wellington, New Zealand

- Supported Animation, Previs, and Layout artists on multiple shows including Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Hobbit, Furious 7, Jungle Book, and the BFG.- Helped maintain our in-house tool for loading shot elements (cameras, set, creature rigs, etc) and importing/publishing motion.- Wrote a tool for constructing on-the-fly shading for facial rigs.

Montreal, Quebec

- Developed tools around media encoding, frame burn-ins, and DNxHD support using ffmpeg and rv.- Established a process and toolset for generating DCP content.

Vancouver, BC

- Supported both Animation and Lighting, developing artist tools and technology to extend the production pipeline.- Maintained and supported the publishing and rendering tools for Animation. - Refactored the animation render tool; added better support for anim textures & materials, more accurate & flexible lighting options, and custom shaders (wrinkle.

San Francisco, CA

- Provided artist support and developed tools for all three productions: Strange Magic, Detours, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.- Developed, maintained, and supported the animation pipeline. Liaised with other departments to create show-agnostic tools and develop core technology at a facility level.- Maintained the media ingestion and generation tools for.

Lutz, FL

- Developed the visual system interface for our flight simulators, utilizing both raster graphics and vector graphics image generator API's (C).- Helped create a touch-screen virtual cockpit for the Eclipse 500 aircraft, using photo-realistic textures and modeling instrument behavior (OpenGL, C++).- Developed software models of the electrical, fuel, and.