Ryan Galloway

Associate CG Supervisor | ImageMovers Digital | San Francisco Bay Area | +1.415.448.6713 | ryan@rsgalloway.com

Summary
■ Broad knowledge and experience with CG pipeline from motion capture to rendering and stereo,
■ Articulate communicator, highly collaborative and diplomatic leader of high profile projects,
■ Diverse technical skills and knowledge, including web, database, programming and scripting,
■ Balanced attention to detail and the bigger picture; always asks why, not just how,
■ Proactive and adept at finding innovative, intuitive and elegant solutions to complex problems.

Professional Experience
ImageMovers Digital, Novato, CA 2008-Present
Associate CG Supervisor (Mar. 2010–Present)
■ Collaborate with department leads and CG supervisors to solve remaining technical and workflow
issues,
■ Responsible for ensuring the stability of the pipeline through production of Mars Needs Moms,
■ Mitigate risks of pipeline and workflow changes to meet immediate needs of production while
facing high attrition rates and an aggressive production schedule,
■ Oversee the maintenance of dataflow and asset management tools.
Lead Production Engineer (Sept. 2008–Mar. 2010)
■ Production engineering area lead, responsible for overseeing the Dataflow team,
■ Collaborated closely with department leads and CG supervisors daily to
○ Transition each department to the next generation pipeline (Mosaic),
○ Ensure integration high-quality code and systems into production pipeline,
○ Determine technical approaches for integrating new features into the pipeline.
■ Designed, oversaw or lead the development of IMD's
○ Next generation asset and scene management pipeline, Mosaic (aka Pipeline 2.0),
○ Lighting and rendering user-interface, Isotope,
○ Asset management system, Loco.
Senior Technical Director (2007–Sept. 2008)
■ Designed and developed the studio’s dailies system, Omni,
■ Oversaw the integration of third-party applications Scratch, RV and Shotgun into the pipeline,
■ Wrote and integrated several studio-wide production libraries in Python and PyQt,
■ Designed and developed motion capture stage acquisition tool, Mometa,
■ Worked on set with stage departments during the mocap shoot of A Christmas Carol.

Industrial Light + Magic, San Francisco, CA 1999–2008

Technical Director (2001–2007)
■ Responsible for compiling the various elements of a shot and seeing it through to completion,
■ Designed and created lighting and the look of computer generated objects and scenes,
■ Created images, effects and programs for digitally composited sequences,
■ Worked with teams on a production to determine various design solutions,
■ Knowledge of applicable software include Maya, Renderman, UNIX and scripting,
■ Developed techniques for creating digital mountains and terrain used on Van Helsing,
■ R&D’ed photomodeling techniques used on Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones,
■ Triage supervisor for The Nightmare Before Christmas in Disney Digital 3-D,
■ Developed tool for creating automatic sequence "cuts" for Bounty Hunter.
Assistant Technical Director (2000–2001)
■ Responsible for the setup and maintenance of a show’s environment.
■ Responsible for tracking down and fixing problems with show scripts and software.
■ Developed several scripts, for example: generating real-time cut sequences incorporating the
latest version of any given shot for any given task-type for a show that lacked editorial staff.
■ Proficiency in scripting languages including Python and UNIX shell scripting.

Ryan Galloway | ryan@rsgalloway.com | http://www.linkedin.com/in/rsgalloway

731 Lamont Avenue, Novato, CA 94945 | +1.415.448.6713
Technical Assistant (1999–2000)
■ Responsible for monitoring progress of overnight renders,
■ Tracked and communicated errors, resource & network issues to technical directors & show
supes,
■ Tape backup and archiving,
■ Python scripting,
■ Responsible for allocating appropriate resources to overnight renders.

Enluminari, San Francisco, CA 2007–Present

Founder (2007–Present)
■ Launched several web sites including myrental.org and speechable.com,
■ Design and development of dynamic web content using Python, Javascript, MySQL and Flash,
■ Maintenance of dedicated CentOS web server using MySQL 5.0 and Apache 2.2.

Tandemedia, Columbus, OH 1998–2001

Founder, Creative Director (1998–2001)
■ Founded and managed a web development startup to meet the needs of Internet content creation
for local clients,
■ Created dynamic websites in Flash, HTML and Javascript,
■ Created database-backed Internet storefronts and shopping carts,
■ Bought out by competitor Synet Systems, Inc.

Filmography
1 . Pledge, The (2001) (cg technician: ILM)
2 . Jurassic Park III (2001) (cg technician: ILM)
3 . Majestic, The (2001) (cg technician: ILM)
4 . E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (2002) (cg technician: ILM)
5 . K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) (cg technician: ILM)
6 . Signs (2002) (cg technician: ILM)
7 . Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) (digital effects artist)
8 . Hulk (2003) (digital effects artist)
9 . Master and Commander: Far Side of the World (2003) (digital effects artist)
1 0 .THX1138 (2004) (digital effects artist)
1 1 .Van Helsing (2004) (digital effects artist)
1 2 .Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) (digital effects artist)
1 3 .XXX2: State of the Union (2005) (digital effects artist)
1 4 .War of the Worlds (2005) (digital effects artist) (uncredited)
1 5 .Poseidon (2006) (digital effects artist)
1 6 .Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) (digital effects artist) (uncredited)
1 7 .The Nightmare Before Christmas in Disney Digital 3-D (2006) (digital effects artist)
1 8 .Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) (digital effects artist)
1 9 .The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) (digital effects artist)
2 0 .A Christmas Carol (2009) (lead production engineer:IMD)
2 1 .Mars Needs Moms (March 2011)

Education
■ B.S. Computer Information Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (1999)

Ryan Galloway | ryan@rsgalloway.com | http://www.linkedin.com/in/rsgalloway

731 Lamont Avenue, Novato, CA 94945 | +1.415.448.6713