Tim Ebling

Tim Ebling

Engineering Manager at Facebook Reality Labs

Lead Software Developer / 26 yrs

Bellevue, WA

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Simulation

Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

Tools Lead

Destiny (2014)

Lead FX R&D Technical Director

Man of Steel (2013)

Lead FX R&D Technical Director

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

Lead FX R&D Technical Director

Prometheus (2012)

R&D FX TD

The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

Lead FX R&D Technical Director

X-Men: First Class (2011)

Lead FX R&D Technical Director

Gulliver's Travels (2010)

Lead FX R&D Technical Director

The A-Team (2010)

Lead FX R&D Technical Director

Avatar (2009)

Project Technical Director

The Suffering: Ties That Bind (2005)

Two decades of experience in the entertainment industry in an engineering lead capacity across a wide variety of disciplines, from game engines to state of the art fluid simulation and rendering for film. Recent experience includes CG production on award winning feature films.

Films:

Man Of Steel
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Prometheus
The Adventures Of Tintin
X-Men: First Class
The A-Team
Avatar

Games:

Destiny
The Suffering
Drakan: The Ancients' Gates
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Drakan: Order of the Flame
Work History

  • Engineering Manager

    Facebook

    May 2018 - November 2021

  • Tools Lead

    Bungie

    January 2013 - May 2018

  • Lead FX R&D Technical Director

    Wētā FX

    July 2009 - December 2012

  • Research Engineer

    Wētā FX

    July 2008 - July 2009

  • Project Technical Director

    Midway Games

    2004 - June 2008

  • Lead Programmer

    Surreal Software

    September 1999 - April 2004

  • Programmer

    Surreal Software

    September 1996 - August 1999
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Education

  • PhD in Physical Oceanography

    Oregon State University

    1994 - 1996

  • M Eng in Applied Physics

    Cornell University

    1993 - 1994

  • BA in Physics

    Cornell University

    1989 - 1993