Summary
Andy Tanguay is an Associate CG Director and GenAI Pipeline Architect based in Ann Arbor with three decades of CGI and VFX craft and a decade of focused industry experience across studio, freelance, and academic roles. At Dentsu Creative he leads innovation and emerging-technology efforts, blending production-hardened technical art with pipeline design to accelerate creative output. His background ranges from hands-on 3D animation and motion graphics to supervising teams and teaching 3D foundations, giving him a rare mix of artistic fluency and systems thinking. Comfortable building bespoke tools and integrating generative AI into pipelines, he consistently turns experimental tech into practical, production-ready workflows. Though active as a freelancer since the early ’90s, he also brings corporate R&D experience from firms like Quantum Signal AI, demonstrating an ability to scale solutions from single-artist rigs to agency pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
English, sarcasm