Platform
GLOBAL LAUNCH
Style 2.0 Avatars
Meta / Reality Labs
Led interdependent technical workstreams through the platform launch, coordinating cross-functional teams of up to 35 engineers and artists.
SHIPPED &
RELEASED
Proven track record across Feature Film, VR, and Meta Platforms
7
Feature Film
4
VR Titles
2
Global Launches
VR
EMMY WINNER
Crow: The Legend
Baobab Studios
Film-quality character deformation held inside a 90fps VR performance budget. Four Emmy wins and an Annie Award.
VR
EMMY WINNER
Baba Yaga
Baobab Studios
Asset supervision across the full character technical stack, Maya through engine. Three Emmy wins.
VR
ANNIE WINNER
Bonfire
Baobab Studios
Rigging lead. Skeletal animation optimised with LOD strategy and GPU skinning to hold frame-rate targets.
Film
OSCAR NOM
Kubo & The Two Strings
Laika
The studio's cloth simulation pipeline in Maya, and the facial system generating deformation data for 3D-printed faces.
Film
WORLDWIDE
Madagascar 3
PDI / DreamWorks
Crowd character systems achieving hero-quality deformation at scale on the render farm.
Film
WORLDWIDE
Shrek Forever After
PDI / DreamWorks
Character systems for bodies, props, and hair, on the studio-wide rigging framework.
Recent: Style 2.0 Launch
Led technical art strategy for the next evolution of Meta's Avatar ecosystem.
Awards & Recognition
2X EMMY
Outstanding Interactive Media
OSCAR NOMINATION
Best Animated Feature
SIGGRAPH
Best In Show
2X ANNIE AWARD
Best Virtual Reality Production
Career
JAN 2021 – MAR 2026
JAN 2021 – MAR 2026
Meta, Reality Labs (Avatars)
Tech Lead, Technical Art · Technical Artist
Led technical systems for Meta's avatar platform, serving millions of users across VR and mobile.
OCT 2016 – JAN 2021
OCT 2016 – JAN 2021
Baobab Studios
Rigging Lead to Asset Supervisor
Character systems and real-time pipelines for Emmy-winning VR productions: Asteroids!, Crow: The Legend, Bonfire, Baba Yaga.
MAY 2014 – OCT 2016
MAY 2014 – OCT 2016
Laika
Rigging Technical Director
Character systems and cloth pipeline for Kubo and the Two Strings (Academy Award nominee) and Missing Link.
MAR 2008 – MAY 2014
MAR 2008 – MAY 2014
DreamWorks Animation (PDI)
Character Technical Director
Character systems and pipeline tools across five+ feature releases: Shrek Forever After, Rise of the Guardians, Madagascar 3, Mr. Peabody and Sherman.
SEP 2006 – FEB 2008
SEP 2006 – FEB 2008
Laika
Rigging Technical Director
Established the character pipeline and Python infrastructure for a hybrid stop-motion/CG production workflow.
3D Avatar Creation • Editor · Download · Market
ATOMICRIG
A real-time 3D avatar creation tool — now polished and genuinely easy to use. Assemble custom bipedal characters from modular geometric bits in the Editor, export them via Download, and discover or share assets in the Market. Built on React Three Fiber, Gaussian Splat rendering, and a full UGC pipeline.
Atomic Rig // Editor
System Architecture
Rendering & Graphics
React Three Fiber + Three.js for real-time 3D, Gaussian splat rendering via SparkJS, PBR material system, and procedural geometry generation through sam3D.
Core Infrastructure
Next.js frontend with Node.js backend, Zustand for state management, Clerk authentication, and Sentry for error monitoring.
Data & Storage
Supabase handling geometry, avatar storage, and Market inventory with a full user-generated content pipeline and persistent per-user libraries.
Development Process
// AI-ASSISTED WORKFLOW
Claude Code -> Clear Plan
↓
Implementation
↓
MCP Testing
↓
Code Review
↓
Update Todo List → Loop
"Get the iteration cycle humming, and you can ship fast. Atomic Rig is proof of that."
Editor
Real-time 3D character assembly with modular geometric 'bits,' PBR materials, and live skeletal binding — all in the browser.
Download
Export finished rigs in production-ready formats. Full asset pipeline with Supabase storage and per-user character libraries.
Market
Browse, publish, and remix bits from the community. A growing UGC marketplace built on Clerk auth and Supabase.
Also Building
Selected Projects
Real-time graphics work shipped outside the avatar platform: a Gaussian splat renderer built where no existing library could run, and a native iOS game in Swift and Metal.
Stealth Startup
2026 · iOS Gaussian splatting renderer and compression pipeline
Real-time 3D Gaussian splat rendering on iOS, where no existing library could run.
- Built a 3DGS renderer from scratch for React Native. Every existing library (Spark, GaussianSplats3D, PlayCanvas gsplat) hard-requires
WorkerandWebAssembly, neither of which the Hermes JS engine implements, so the decoder, depth sort, and material were written ground-up. - Wrote a
.spzdecoder, moved per-splat dequantization from JS into the shader, replaced a comparator sort with a counting sort, and shifted ZSTD decompression to an offline prep step, taking cold load from ~5s to under 1s at 589K splats. - Ported the material to three.js TSL on WebGPU (react-native-webgpu / Dawn) with true anisotropic splatting: per-splat 3D covariance built from scale and rotation, projected to a screen-space ellipse driving both billboard sizing and fragment falloff.
- Designed the compression pipeline: WebP-packed quantized attributes (16-bit log-domain positions, smallest-three quaternions, codebook scales and SH0) plus splat decimation: 70MB captures down to ~2.5MB, and 1.5M splats to ~500K.
ShadowBox
2026 · solo, in development
Native iOS physics puzzle game. The phone renders as a glass shadowbox with real depth.
- Swift and Metal: off-axis frustum projection driven by CoreMotion at 120Hz to lock perspective to physical device orientation.
- Single-pass frosted-acrylic shaders (Fresnel rim, background mipmap sampling, chromatic dispersion) tuned for tile-based mobile GPUs.
- Procedural volume-preserving mesh deformation, Core Haptics coupling, and velocity-mapped dynamic audio.
- 300+ commits in the first two weeks of development.
Full detail on the résumé.
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