Brent Williams
VFX Crowds TD at LAIKA Studios
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrent Williams is a VFX Crowds TD with 12 years of experience designing and deploying production tools and pipeline solutions for major animation studios. He spent nearly a decade at DreamWorks Animation rising to Senior Department Technical Director, where he mentored artists, improved studio-wide workflows, and delivered show-specific tooling and documentation. Now at LAIKA Studios, he focuses on crowd simulation and VFX systems that bridge artistic needs with robust engineering. With a CS master’s from Cal Poly and early graphics work at Apple and Sony Pictures Imageworks, he combines low-level graphics know-how with large-scale production pipeline expertise. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation that reduces artist iteration time while keeping complex shots predictable and reproducible.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoGithub contributions (5)
brentrwilliams/Sparse-Voxel-DAGs
Sep 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:72 commits, 51 pushes in 1 year 9 months
brentrwilliams/HTMLClock
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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