Tim Ebling

Tim Ebling

Senior Principal Engineer at Miris

Lead Senior Principal Engineer

Bellevue, WA

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Technology & Research

Better Man (2025)

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)
Waterfalls Maya plugin, sim and render - Avatar
Smoke sim and render - Man of Steel
Mist wings, simulation and rendering - Tintin
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.
Work History

  • Senior Principal Engineer

    Miris

    June 2024 - Present
    United States · Remote

  • Principal Engineer

    Wētā FX

    December 2023 - June 2024
    Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand · Remot

    Simulation R&D

  • Principal Engineer

    Unity

    May 2022 - December 2023
    Bellevue, Washington, United States · Remote

    Simulation R&D, Wētā Digital

  • 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
    Seattle, WA

  • Lead Programmer

    Surreal Software

    September 1999 - April 2004
    Seattle, WA

  • Programmer

    Surreal Software

    September 1996 - August 1999

    "Drakan: Order of the Flame" (Psygnosis, 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