Luiz Philippe Moreira

Work History

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  Senior Creature Pipeline Technical Director

  Unity

  January 2022 - Present

  Wellington, New Zealand
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  Senior Creature Pipeline Technical Director

  Wētā FX

  August 2018 - December 2021

  Wellington, New Zealand

  Designing, developing, and maintaining the core pipeline and related applications for the Creatures department.
  
  Projects:
  • Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
  • She-Hulk: Season 1 (2022)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)
  • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
  • The Batman (2022)
  • Eternals (2021)
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
  • Jungle Cruise (2021)
  • The Suicide Squad (2021)
  • The Tomorrow War (2021)
  • Godzilla vs Kong (2021)
  • We Can Be Heroes (2021)
  • The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020)
  • Space Force (2020)
  • The Umbrella Academy: Season 2 (2020)
  • Mulan (2020)
  • Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
  • Lady and the Tramp (2019)
  • Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
  • Gemini Man (2019)
  • Game of Thrones: Season 8 (2019)
  • Avengers: Endgame (2019)
  • The Umbrella Academy: Season 1 (2019)
  • Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
  • Mortal Engines (2018)

  

  

  

  

  
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  Creature Pipeline Technical Director

  Wētā FX

  May 2017 - July 2018

  Wellington, New Zealand

  Designing, developing and maintaining the core pipeline and related applications for the Creatures department.
  
  Projects:
  • Animal World (2018)
  • Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
  • Rampage (2018)
  • Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
  • Justice League (2017)
  • Game of Thrones: Season 7 (2017)

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Creature Pipeline Technical Director

  Wētā FX

  April 2017 - July 2018

  Designing, developing, and maintaining the core pipeline and related applications for the Creatures department.
  
  Projects:
  • Animal World (2018)
  • Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
  • Rampage (2018)
  • Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
  • Justice League (2017)
  • Game of Thrones: Season 7 (2017)
  • War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
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  Senior Character Pipeline Technical Director

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  October 2015 - April 2017

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  • Designing, developing and maintaining core tools and related applications for the character pipeline studio wide and on shows
  • Working with supervisors, production and artists to solve technical challenges and ensure any issues are short-lived
  
  Projects:
  • The Emoji Movie (2017)
  • Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)
  • Ghostbusters (2016)

  

  

  
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  Character Pipeline Technical Director

  Brazen Animation

  January 2014 - October 2015

  Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  • Developing studio-wide pipeline and tools.
  • Developing web and python based production tracking, shot review, and asset management toolset full-stack.
  • Developing render pass toolset for lighting and compositing pipeline.
  • Creating production rigs for digital characters.
  • Developed body and face modular rigging toolset used on various projects.
  • Developed a robust animation library toolset including optimized handling of animation curve data storage and access, with full featured interface for managing poses and animation clips.
  • Developed cachin

• Character Technical Director

  Freelance (Self employed)

  February 2012 - December 2013

  Orlando, Florida Area

  Created custom character/creature rigs, facial setups, rig optimization, and tool development for visual effects, games and animation pipeline.
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  Character Technical Director

  Freelance

  January 2012 - December 2013

  Created custom character/creature rigs, facial setups, rig optimization, and tool development for visual effects, games and animation pipeline.

• Object Oriented Programmer

  Sinapse Informatica

  June 2005 - October 2007

  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve code for deadline driven projects
  • Manage project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
  • Programming done in Python, C++, Java, and MySQL