Matt Gidney
Director Of Animation
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolMatt Gidney is a Director of Animation and creative technologist based in Sydney with over two decades of experience blending artistic direction, technical pipeline development, and education. As Course Director and Director of Animation at UTS since 2018, he combines academic leadership with hands-on VFX and stereography expertise honed on major feature films and high-profile commercials at studios like Animal Logic, Lucasfilm and Framestore. He has a rare mix of roles across supervision, tooling and production pipelines—designing database-driven asset systems, stereo toolsets and editorial/grading workflows that scaled across global teams. A seasoned mentor and educator, he has taught animation and VFX at AFTRS and UTS while continuing to solve practical production problems, from mocap direction to render and lighting pipelines. His background in mechanical engineering and fine art gives him a systems-level approach to creative problem solving that bridges engineering rigor and cinematic storytelling.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Grad Dip Directing Screen Writing and Animation, Grad Dip Directing Screen Writing and Animation at Swinburne (Film School)Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Mechanical Engineering at University of Technology SydneyUNSW Sydney
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (12)
configurations9
maya8
macos6
property-list6
environment-variables6
tractor6
to-do6
dm6
dyld6
gamemaker5
warehouse3
ansible3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
utsdab/usr
Dec 2015 - May 2022
DAB UTS studio configurations that not global
Contributions:1 release, 270 commits, 62 PRs in 6 years 6 months
utsdabconfigurations
utsdab/renderfarm
Jan 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 release, 26 PRs, 215 pushes in 1 year 3 months
renderfarmto-dotractor
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