Aaron Powell
Lecturer at Luna Digital, Ltd.
City of Rochester, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Powell is a creative director, 3D designer, and educator who has built a decade-plus career blending high-end production with hands-on technical pipeline development. As founder and partner at Luna Digital he shepherds end-to-end storytelling work—animation, rendering, and real-time experiences—for clients like Adobe, Metallica, and Bridgestone, and has pioneered Blender-to-Arnold workflows and custom studio pipelines. He teaches 3D design and production at RIT while pursuing an MFA in Industrial Design, exploring how physical and digital storytelling intersect. Comfortable shifting between conceptual direction, tooling, and team leadership, he also designs curricula that prepare students for real production environments and version-controlled collaboration. Based in Rochester, NY, Aaron combines boutique-studio creativity with practical production rigor and a knack for solving technically interesting creative problems.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Industrial Design, Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Industrial Design at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (26)
webgl10
threejs10
javascript10
nuke10
augmented-reality10
canvas10
rendering10
virtual-reality10
webxr10
render10
svg10
webgpu10
3d10
blender10
autodesk10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
osiriswrecks/colossus
Jan 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
lunadigital/btoa
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
An unofficial Blender add-on for Autodesk's Arnold render engine.
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 535 commits in 2 years
renderblenderautodeskarnoldrendering
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