Borja Morales

Vision Pro & visionOS

Vision Pro & visionOS

Fabric Software develops Fabric Engine, a digital content creation platform to build high-performance production tools for VFX, Games, Virtual Reality and Visualization.

My responsibilities include:

• Product Owner, working on roadmap and release definition (specification of new features that add value and quality to the product, proactively and through user stories negotiated with the stakeholders).
• Customer relationship and consulting management.
• Day-to-day engineering team management and product backlog prioritization.

Fabric Software develops Fabric Engine, a digital content creation platform to build high-performance production tools for VFX, Games, Virtual Reality and Visualization.

My responsibilities included:

• Extending development and testing processes (manual and automated) to increase our testing coverage and ensure the product was released with a high-quality bar.
• Ensuring to provide first-class service to customers on high profile projects all over the world.
• Working one-on-one with the VP of products to ensure proper alignment of the release definition.

Digital Art and Technology University

• Rendering Subject from the VFX master degree.

Solid Angle develops Arnold, an advanced production rendering software for animation and visual effects, awarded with an Academy Scientific and Engineering Award.

Key responsibilities:

• Day-to-day management of the Arnold integration teams (Softimage, Maya, Houdini, Cinema 4D).
• Leading the product Documentation.
• Technical Support.

Developers of Arnold, an advanced production rendering software for animation and visual effects, awarded with an Academy Scientific and Engineering Award.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead development of SItoA, the Softimage to Arnold integration plugin.
• Lead development of MtoA, the Maya to Arnold integration plugin.
• Shader Writing.
• Technical Support.

For its daily coverage of the U.S. Open 2009, Tennis Channel customized its entire studio set to a Virtual Set made by SMT with Brainstorm eStudio

• Technical support, optimization and shader writing for the real-time virtual set done in Maya.

Feature film animation studio. Worked in Planet 51 film as a liaison between lighting/compositing artists and other dependent departments (R&D, FX, Final Layout). Main duties:

• Development of pipeline and workflow improvement tools, standing out a real-time relighting tool.
• Technical testing and support of the raytracing render engine used in the film to achieve the artistic and technical needs of the lighting department.
• Day-to-Day technical management and support of ~30 people.

Developers of eStudio, a complete broadcast 3d real-time graphics solution.

My main duties where:

• Development of frontend features for eStudio such as a Physical camera, a shading postprocessing stack and viewport interaction.
• Development of the Maya integration plugin (C++ API) and the maintenance and testing of the 3ds Max integration plugin.
• Complete photorealistic virtual set creation for product demonstrations at fairs (including modeling, texturing, lighting and GLSL shader programming).

I worked exploring the capabilities of early AR APIs (ARToolKit) for my final degree project.

• Development of an augmented reality application under a 3d real environment managed by the Ogre3D engine.

Feature film animation studio.

I worked as scene modeler and render assistant in the following Feature films:

• 2004 Supertramps:Spanish Academy award nomination to best animated Feature film in 2005.
• 2003 Glup:Spanish Academy award nomination to best animated Feature film in 2004.
• 2002 Anjé: Spanish Academy award nomination to best animated Feature film in 2003.