Mike Ravella
Sets Lead at Pixar Animation Studios
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Ravella is a Sets Lead and technical director at Pixar with 12 years of experience shaping production-quality 3D environments for feature animation. He led his SetX team’s work on Elemental, a project recognized by a VES nomination, and brings deep hands-on expertise in set building, pipeline integration, and technical direction. A Brown CS graduate who taught 3D computer animation and interactive graphics, he blends rigorous academic foundations with studio-scale problem solving. Based in San Francisco, he pairs creative craft—he also trained in professional culinary arts—with engineering leadership to streamline complex artistic workflows and deliver visually ambitious sequences.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Brown UniversityProfessional Culinary Track, Professional Culinary Track at San Francisco Cooking School
Italian, EnglishGithub contributions (5)
mravella/hair
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:64 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
mravella/cs125_site
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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