Milan Kolar
Founder at ynput
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolMilan Kolar is a founder and pipeline-focused studio technologist with 11 years of experience building and running production-ready tools for animation and VFX studios. As CEO of Ynput he led development and commercial support for AYON, an open studio pipeline platform designed to scale across studios of all sizes. His background spans hands-on CG work, pipeline TD roles, VFX supervision and studio management, giving him a rare combination of artist empathy and systems-level engineering. He has a track record of turning studio pain points into robust integrations and automation—often shipping bespoke tools while maintaining production delivery. Based in Prague, he actively shapes community and training efforts to help studios adopt better workflows and collaboration practices.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA(Hons), Computer Animation, 1st class Honours, BA(Hons), Computer Animation, 1st class Honours at The University of GlamorganMaster of Arts (MA), Digital Effects, Distinction, Master of Arts (MA), Digital Effects, Distinction at Bournemouth University
Czech, Slovak, English
Github Skills (57)
launcher10
javascript10
algolia10
python10
animation10
halo10
devkit10
trinitycore10
azerothcore10
vscode10
pipeline10
advertising10
configurations10
mamba10
autodesk10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pypeclub/avalon-launcher
Dec 2018 - Jul 2020
Environment management platform
Contributions:18 PRs, 21 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
mkolar/maya-capture
Jan 2016 - Dec 2020
Playblasting in Maya done right
Contributions:6 PRs, 5 pushes in 5 years
maya
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