Jason MacLeod is a hands-on technical leader with over 25 years in feature animation and visual effects.
He builds and coaches the engineering teams and production technology that let artists do their best work, from render pipelines and studio tooling to AI-assisted workflows.
He currently leads production and technology strategy at Nickelodeon Animation, and has directed pipeline and software at Company 3 / Method, run the Animation Guild as its General Manager, and spent 17 years lighting films at Walt Disney Animation Studios.
With an engineer's rigor and a collaborator's instincts, Jason connects creative and technical worlds to solve hard problems, calmly and effectively.