corban gossett

corban gossett

Currently helping disrupt the animation industry.

Supervisor Technical Director / 27 yrs

Mountain View CA

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Supervising Technical Director

The Boss Baby (2017)

Supervising Technical Director

Trolls (2016)

Supervising Technical Director

Rocky and Bullwinkle (2014)

Technical Director

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)

Supervising Technical Director

Megamind: The Button of Doom (2011)

Technical Director

Megamind (2010)

Crowd Development

Monsters vs Aliens (2009)

Technical Direction

Shrek The Third (2007)

Engineer

Flushed Away (2006)

Engineer

Over The Hedge (2006)

Engineer

Madagascar (2005)

Pipeline Engineer

Shark Tale (2004)

PE Staff

Shrek 2 (2004)

Pipeline Engineer

Father of the Pride (2004)

Support Technical Director

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)

Corban has over 25 years in the animation industry developing Academy Award winning products and integrating feature animation pipelines for some of the most beloved animated films. Corban is currently working on a remote cloud based animation pipeline at Nimble Collective, making it easy for artists to come together to create animation.

As a design major from Washington State University, Corban’s past experience includes 15 years at DreamWorks Animation as a Supervising Technical Director and 10 years at Alias|wavefront as a Senior Product Specialist, where he helped design and implement artist-facing tools and technologies, including the Academy Award-winning animation package, Maya.

Corban is a father of two little girls and professional cuddler at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
Work History

  • Senior Product Manager

    Nimble Collective, Inc

    2015 - Present

    Enjoying being part of a creative startup where I am helping to define and productize a cloud based animation platform so people can create and distribute their own animated content.

  • Supervising Technical Director

    DreamWorks Animation

    January 2001 - May 2014
    Redwood City, CA

    Worked in Production Engineering (Pipeline Group) and on Feature Film Projects as a Supervising Technical Director. I was also the Department Chair for the Technical Directors at Dreamworks.

  • Senior Product Specialist

    Alias|wavefront

    June 1992 - January 2001
    Santa Barbara, CA

    Worked on the Academy Award winning Maya Content Creation Tool.

    Awarded Maya Master

Education

  • BA in Fine Arts: Graphic Design

    Washington State University

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