Benoit Gielly
CTO At Stim Studio
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolBenoit Gielly is a seasoned technical leader and rigging specialist with 10 years of experience building character and creature pipelines for top VFX studios, now serving as CTO of Stim Studio from Lyon. His background blends hands-on character rigging and Creature TD work at DNEG, Framestore, The Mill and Double Negative with pipeline and tooling expertise in Python and PySide. As code standard stakeholder and rigging development lead, he’s known for turning complex animation requirements into robust, reusable systems that accelerate feature animation production. He began his career creating autorig and scripting tools during his studies at ArtFX, a practical curiosity that still surfaces in his tooling-first approach to studio problems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who bridges artist needs and software best practices to deliver predictable, scalable rigging workflows.
10 years of coding experience
Character Rigging & Scripting, Character Rigging & Scripting at ArtFXBaccalauréat Scientifique, Option Science de l'ingénieur, Baccalauréat Scientifique, Option Science de l'ingénieur at Lycée les Iscles - Manosque
French, English
Github Skills (28)
visual-studio8
typescript8
vscode8
vscode-extension8
visual-studio-code8
animation8
microsoft7
electron7
editor7
pipeline7
react6
intellisense6
collaboration5
nextjs5
python5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BenoitGielly/bgdev
Dec 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 56 pushes in 1 year 7 months
BenoitGielly/Skies
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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