Lewis Orton
Chief Technology Officer at HotPixel Technology Shanghai
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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SeniorLewis Orton is a creative technology leader and CTO based in Shanghai with 11 years of experience bridging visual effects, motion design, and software-driven production. He progressed from landscape and motion graphic work to 3D generalist and VFX roles at studios like MPC before taking on strategic technical leadership at HotPixel Technology. Lewis combines an artist’s eye—evident from an early CG showreel—with practical production discipline, steering teams that ship high-quality visual content at scale. He describes himself as a passionate designer and brings that user-focused sensibility to technical decisions and tooling. Known for hands-on expertise across the pipeline, he’s equally comfortable iterating on visuals or optimizing workflows to boost team output. Based in Shanghai, he blends international studio experience with a product-minded approach to creative technology.
11 years of coding experience
English, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
houdini9
script9
proxy8
quicktime8
viewer7
playback6
png6
player6
openexr5
tga5
jpeg5
apng4
animation4
tiff3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
LewisOrton/Houdini_Scripts
May 2020 - Aug 2022
Personal Houdini scripts
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 15 commits in 2 years 3 months
houdiniscriptpython-script
FireKDragon/NetCreator
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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