Hallam Roberts
Junior FX TD at Industrial Light & Magic
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolHallam Roberts is a Junior FX Technical Director with a decade of experience blending creative motion graphics and robust software engineering for film and media. Currently at Industrial Light & Magic, he has contributed to high-profile projects including Alien: Romulus, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and upcoming titles in 2025, applying shader and compute skills across GLSL and OpenCL. With formal training in animation and a Computer Science degree focused on game and mobile development, he pairs cinematic sensibility with production-grade coding in C++, C#, Python and Lua. Hallam’s portfolio spans practical pipeline work—updating open-source Discord-TTS for FakeYou—to producing educational animated series for universities, demonstrating an unusual mix of VFX, audio tooling and instructional storytelling.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Computer Science, Game and Mobile Development, Distinction, Bachelor of Computer Science, Game and Mobile Development, Distinction at University of WollongongMaster of Animation and Visualisation, Cinematography and Film/Video Production, Master of Animation and Visualisation, Cinematography and Film/Video Production at University of Technology SydneyInternational Baccalaureate Certificate, International Baccalaureate Certificate at The Illawarra Grammar School
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Github Skills (180)
synthesis10
nodejs-bot10
lua10
source-engine10
codea10
tonejs10
javascript10
discord-js10
in-progress10
audio10
api10
computer-music10
batch10
shell10
audio-recorder10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
MysteryPancake/Houdini-Fun
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:902 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 8 months
MysteryPancake/Discord-TTS
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Text to speech Discord bot using Vocodes and 15.ai
Contributions:21 commits, 3 PRs, 55 pushes in 22 days
discordspeech-to-textbotdiscord-botdiscord-py
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