Fredrik Brännbacka
R&D Advisor at Important Looking Pirates VFX
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolFredrik Brännbacka is an R&D advisor and pipeline developer with 11 years of focused experience in VFX technology, currently shaping research and tooling at Important Looking Pirates after leading their R&D since 2016. He combines hands-on programming, pipeline architecture and practical problem solving—skills honed over two decades that include running his own company, Mad Crew AB, as CTO and building production-ready tools for compositing and lighting pipelines. Based in Stockholm, he bridges artist needs and engineering discipline, translating creative requirements into robust, automatable workflows. Colleagues value his ability to simplify complex production constraints and deliver pragmatic, scalable solutions that quietly keep high-end VFX projects on schedule.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Media, Media at Nacka Mediagymnasium
English
Github Skills (60)
video-editing10
hdr10
openexr10
editing10
image-processing9
animation9
cut9
file-format9
reference-implementation9
specification9
alembic9
image-storage9
scene9
api8
storage8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
piratecrew/rez-boost
Dec 2015 - Sep 2024
Rez package for boost
Contributions:88 pushes, 6 branches, 7 tags in 8 years 10 months
piratecrew/rez-usd
Aug 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 6 months
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