Summary
Aelly Liu is a 3D character animator based in Austin who transitioned into animation after a 9+ year career in data management and solutions engineering, bringing strong communication, teamwork, and problem-solving chops to creative pipelines. She has blended hands-on animation work at Studio Drydock with technical client-facing roles at LaunchDarkly and senior data engineering positions, giving her a rare mix of artistic craft and systems thinking. Comfortable working remotely, Aelly consistently applies a disciplined, detail-oriented approach learned from enterprise consulting to meet production deadlines and iterate quickly on character performance. Her background in computer science provides a technical foundation for tool-building and troubleshooting animation workflows when needed. Colleagues describe her as passionately committed—she puts 100% into projects—and adept at translating complex feedback into clear, actionable animation fixes. This combination of consultative experience and creative focus makes her effective at bridging artists, engineers, and stakeholders in fast-moving studios.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Computer Science Engineering, Computer Science Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington
English, chinese - madarin