Rob Bredow

Work History

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  SVP, Chief Creative Officer

  Industrial Light & Magic

  May 2018 - Present

  San Francisco

  As Chief Creative Officer for ILM, Rob serves in the role with a particular focus on the creative and innovative global vision for the storied Visual Effects company. He helped form ILM's new TV division, helped create ILM's LED technology StageCraft first used on Jon Favreau's The Mandalorian, and continued ILM's global expansion in service to storytellers.
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  Chief Technology Officer & VFX Supervisor

  Lucasfilm

  August 2014 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Bredow served as Visual Effects Supervisor and Co-Producer on Solo: A Star Wars Story. In his role as Lucasfilm Chief Technology Officer, Bredow oversaw all technology development for Lucasfilm and ILM. Helped launch ILMxLAB in 2015 and co-wrote and directed Trials on Tatooine, a story-based virtual reality experiment created in collaboration with Lucasfilm’s Story Group, ILMxLAB and Skywalker Sound.
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  CTO & Visual Effects Supervisor

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  July 2001 - August 2014

  Culver City, CA

  As CTO, Rob has led efforts to streamline the production pipeline for both CG Animation and Live-Action Visual Effects, and more recently Color Timing, Post-Production and Post Sound. While the studio as a whole has long been good at creating the impossible, Rob has worked with engineers to make the “easy” things much easier, resulting an better experiences for the artists every day.
  
  Rob also led the effort to significantly expand the computing and disk infrastructure while reducing costs to the productions while continuing the expansion to international offices. Rob created the technology sharing agreement with The Foundry which allowed Imagework’s lighting software Katana and story software Flix to be sold commercially. He also created Imageworks open-source initiative to share innovative technology with the industry as a whole.
  
  Rob served as Visual Effects Supervisor on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and the Academy Award Nominated Surf’s Up where he delivered hours of groundbreaking shots for both films. Significant innovations included a real-time live-action camera for the animated films and new rendering techniques that both improved the look of the films and artist efficiency. Additionally, Rob held supervisory positions on many other films including Polar Express, Anger Management, and Stuart Little 2.

• Visual Effects Supervisor

  Megiddo Productions Inc

  2000 - 2001

  Megiddo: Production-Side VFX Supervisor
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  Sr. Technical Director

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  1998 - 2000

  Castaway
  Stuart Little
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  CG Supervisor & Director of Research & Development

  VisionArt

  1991 - 1998

  Santa Monica, CA

  Godzilla
  Independence Day
  Men in Black