About

Who is this guy?

This guy is AJ Gillespie! An animator by trade for games and VFX, who switched to Virtual Production for Jungle Book in 2014. At the time we were using Unity which carried over to Ready Player One, so had to learn C#, rigging for games, shader code and implementation for VR and realtime use. In 2018 he moved to Unreal Engine for Lion King and was immediately hooked, building tools, rigs, and running his own experiments with realtime VCam, ARKit and VR.

Most recently, he spent 3 years at Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation) on the Visual Arts team as the Senior Unreal Engine TD and animator working on almost all Sony exclusive games that used the mocap stages.