--> Dan Englesson Home Projects Portfolio Contact about My name is Dan Englesson and I’m working as Lead USD Pipeline Technical Director at Goodbye Kansas Studios. For the past 6 years I have been leading the development of a new VFX pipeline completely based on Pixar’s open-sourced OpenUSD framework, enabling us to efficiently take on large-scale cinematics and VFX projects.
Prior to moving back to Sweden I worked at Pixar Animation Studios in San Francisco for 5 years, where I worked on the movies Coco, Finding Dory and The Good Dinosaur as a Lightspeed and Pipeline Technical Director developing and maintaining the pipeline in the Pipeline team as well as optimizing renders in the Lightspeed team. Furthermore I worked in the RnD department optimizing light sampling for Pixar’s inhouse sampler that became a part of Renderman later on.
Before joining Pixar I worked as a Core Engineer at The Moving Picture Company in London creating new tools for blockbuster movies such as World War Z and The Jungle Book.