Peter Tieryas

Peter Tieryas has a diverse work experience across various industries. Peter worked as a Narrative Director at Nicalis, Inc. starting from May 2021. Prior to that, they were an author at Penguin Random House from October 2017 to July 2022, where they wrote novels such as Mecha Samurai Empire and Cyber Shogun Revolution.

Tieryas also worked at Meta from May 2021 to June 2022, where they played a role in imagining and improving ways to use avatars and enhance the artistic and technical pipeline for the larger AR team.

In the animation industry, Tieryas served as a Character Technical Director at Pixar Animation Studios from October 2014 to April 2021. Peter contributed to projects like Soul, Toy Story 4, Lightyear, Luca, and Incredibles 2, among others, by creating character rigs and overseeing facial, body, and complex prop rigging.

Before that, Tieryas worked at Sony Pictures Imageworks as a Lead Character Technical Director from June 2005 to September 2014. Peter was responsible for developing character pipelines, creating new setups, and using unique deformers for projects like Alice, Oz, Men In Black 3, and Hotel Transylvania.

Earlier in their career, Tieryas held the position of Senior Character Technical Director at Electronic Arts from 2003 to 2005, and they worked as a Technical Artist/Technical Writer at Lucasarts from February 2000 to August 2003.

Tieryas is also a published writer, with their works appearing in publications such as Kotaku, IGN, Verge, and Boing Boing. Peter'snovel, United States of Japan, received acclaim from various sources and was recognized as one of Financial Times' Best Books of Summer 2016 and Verge's Best SFF of 2016.

Peter Tieryas attended the University of California, Berkeley from 1997 to 2000. No specific degree or field of study is mentioned.