Credits

Twenty-two years of characters

Hair, cloth, creature effects and the simulation that makes them behave — across 4 studios. The department work is the part that doesn’t appear here: teams, standards and the training that kept the pipeline from repeating itself.

22
Years
15
Features
4
Studios

Pixar Animation Studios

Groom Lead

2015 — present

  • 2026

    Hoppers

    Character groom lead

  • 2022

    Turning Red

    Character groom lead · simulation artist

    VES Award nomination — Outstanding Animated Character, “Panda Mei”

  • 2020

    Onward

  • 2018

    Incredibles 2

  • 2017

    Coco

    Creature effects technical director

Industrial Light & Magic

Senior Character Technical Director

2015

  • 2016

    Warcraft

    Creature effects technical director

  • 2015

    The Revenant

    Creature effects technical director

Sony Pictures Imageworks

Simulation Supervisor

2005 — 2014

  • 2016

    The Angry Birds Movie

    Uncredited

  • 2013

    Oz the Great and Powerful

  • 2012

    Hotel Transylvania

  • 2011

    Arthur Christmas

  • 2011

    The Smurfs

  • 2010

    Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

    Cloth / hair lead technical director

  • 2009

    Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

    Cloth and hair technical director

  • 2007

    Surf's Up

    Technical director — hair and feathers

    First feature production to use Katana

LAIKA

Junior Technical Director

2003 — 2005

  • 2005

    Moongirl

    Digital effects artist · technical director

    Short film, directed by Henry Selick

Credits above are as recorded on IMDb. A decade of studio work goes uncredited by convention, so the list under-represents the whole — the department leadership, the training programme and the tooling don’t show up in a filmography at all.