Brandon Withrow
Senior Technical Artist at Evening Star
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Withrow is a Senior Technical Artist and iOS engineer with 10 years of industry experience blending animation, VFX, and mobile development to build polished, production-ready products. He led iOS efforts at Airbnb and is the creator of the widely used open-source Lottie-iOS library, bringing After Effects animations to native apps. At Evening Star he architected import/export pipelines, custom shader tooling, and a procedural generation system that scaled asset production for a shipped game. Equally comfortable writing Swift, Objective-C, Python, or GLSL, he solves rendering and animation problems end-to-end—from artist-friendly tools in Maya to performant runtime playback on mobile. Brandon is drawn to projects that marry great design with impact, including mental health and conservation technology, and is available for contract or remote work.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Animation, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Animation at Savannah College of Art and Design
Github Skills (7)
mobile10
xcode10
swift10
ios10
animation10
swiftui-app4
swiftui4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
airbnb/lottie-ios
Jan 2017 - May 2021
An iOS library to natively render After Effects vector animations
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:45 releases, 16 reviews, 429 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brandon's commits primarily focused on enhancing the Lottie-iOS library, specifically by introducing support for custom bundles and images within After Effects animations. Their work involved modifying core classes like `LOTAnimationView`, `LOTCompositionLayer`, and `LOTLayerView` to handle animation loading from custom bundles, which involved changes to how images and resources are loaded within the application. Additionally, they made changes to the transition controller and added features to the text rendering as well as updates for different platforms.
renderios-transitionios-libraryanimationafter-effects
buba447/Lottie-Sketch-Export
Mar 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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