Elyse Wei

Elyse Wei has worked in various roles and companies throughout their career. Elyse began their professional journey as a student at the Academy of Art University from 2009 to 2012. Afterward, they joined Creature Art and Mechanics Digital, Inc as an Associate Technical Director, where they developed PySide GUI tools for Rigging Pipeline and created feather models for simulation.

In 2014, Elyse joined Pulse Evolution as a Junior Pipeline Developer, where they used XGen Python API tools to support hair pipeline and wrote command line tools to read exr metadata. Elyse also utilized the Mari Python API to write export channels tools and set up Mari environment.

Elyse's next major role was at Digital Domain, where they worked from 2016 to 2022. During their time there, they held the position of CFX Pipeline TD and contributed to projects such as Avengers: Infinity War. Elyse provided show support, troubleshooting, and developed various pipeline tools for Maya Hair, grooming, and rigging. Elyse also maintained Maya nodes API wrapper and integrated in-house shot model hair tools.

Most recently, Elyse joined Parallel Domain in 2022 as a Pipeline Engineer. No further details about their role and responsibilities are provided.

Elyse Wei earned a Bachelor's Degree in Information Management from Tamkang University, from 2004 to 2008. Following that, they pursued a Master's Degree in 3D animation and Visual Effects at the Academy of Art University from 2009 to 2012.