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.