Summary
Adam Earle is a Visual Effects Specialist and multidisciplinary animator with over a decade of experience designing curricula, pipelines, and production workflows for both industry and education. He leads VFX programs at the Academy of Interactive Entertainment, having saved roughly $1.5M through scheduling, resource optimization, and pipeline fixes while introducing industry-aligned courses like Nuke compositing and collaborative storyboarding. Equally at home as a freelancer—spanning Toon Boom, Adobe Animate, Blender and open-source toolchains—he combines hands-on animation, rigging and direction with developer and producer skills. His background includes shipping creature animation systems for slot titles at Aristocrat and producing hundreds of hours of broadcast content, giving him a rare mix of studio-scale delivery and pedagogical insight. Based in Sydney, Adam balances creative leadership with practical tooling improvements and a knack for boosting student iteration speed and film quality—plus he still finds time to get to the beach.
10 years of coding experience
Fine/Studio Arts, General, Fine/Studio Arts, General at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Fine/Studio Arts, General, Fine/Studio Arts, General at Griffith University
Producing, Producing at Australian Film Television and Radio School