Sean Cooper
Staff Color And Imaging Engineer at Skydance Animation
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Cooper is a Staff Color and Imaging Engineer with nine years of experience shaping color pipelines for film, VFX, animation, and virtual production. He co-designed REVEAL Color Science for the ALEXA 35 at ARRI, led facility-wide OpenColorIO migrations at DNEG and Sony Imageworks, and now brings that expertise to Skydance Animation. His work spans core image processing, HDR image encodings, real-time color correction, display calibration, and standards contributions to ACES and OpenColorIO. A frequent contributor to OpenColorIO documentation and an author of technical white papers (e.g., LogC4, False Color), he blends rigorous research with practical pipeline engineering. Notably, his background includes sensor-to-display pipeline development for novel quantum-dot sensors, giving him hands-on experience from raw capture to cinematic presentation.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Motion Picture Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Motion Picture Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
French, English
Github Skills (7)
markdown10
markdown-it10
sphinx10
documentation10
dockers5
docker5
cmake4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenColorIO
Apr 2017 - Aug 2020
A color management framework for visual effects and animation.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:34 commits, 122 PRs, 63 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to the project by updating and enhancing the documentation. These updates included fixing typos, adding function descriptors, and restructuring documentation for improved clarity. The documentation focused on various aspects of the project, from configuration files to API details. Furthermore, the user added documentation on how to run the environment using Docker.
animationvisual-effectsopencolorio
scoopxyz/scoopxyz.github.io
Apr 2020 - Jul 2025
Contributions:29 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 4 months
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