Ed Caspersen
Director Of Photography at VNW Films
Roseville, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEd Caspersen is a visually driven Director of Photography and technical creative with 12 years of experience blending animation pipeline engineering and cinematic storytelling. He rose through Lucasfilm to Pipeline Technical Lead on projects like Star Wars: Clone Wars and Rebels, contributing to award-winning productions while also shipping tools and a Maya destruction plug-in as a cofounder. Comfortable both behind the camera and in code, Ed has contributed to the popular three.js ecosystem by improving exporters to support skeletal animation and buffer geometry. Currently producing documentary and stock wildlife work with compact mirrorless rigs, he pairs hands-on cinematography, Davinci Resolve color grading, and run-and-gun efficiency with deep technical pipeline know-how. Based in Roseville, CA, he combines a studio-grade eye for portraits and nature with practical systems thinking that helps teams move from concept to finished frame.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS, Information Technology, Associate of Science - AS, Information Technology at ITT Technical Institute-Wyoming
English
Github Skills (7)
threejs10
javascript10
python10
3d9
json9
virtual-reality4
augmented-reality4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mrdoob/three.js
May 2014 - Sep 2015
JavaScript 3D Library.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 17 PRs, 229 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ed contributed to the development of the io_three exporter addon for Three.js. Their work included implementing new features, fixing bugs, and optimizing the export process. They focused on adding support for features like skeletal animation, morph targets, and buffer geometry. They also refactored and improved the existing code base, including the use of more robust data types and methods.
virtual-realitysvgwebglcanvasjavascript
repsac/OpenTimelineIO
Oct 2017 - Apr 2020
Open Source API and interchange format for editorial timeline information.
Contributions:6 PRs, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
apiinterchange-formattimelineeditorialinterchange
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