Tim Lehr

Hello there! I’m a technical director.pipeline developer.animation lover.movie buff.music enthusiast.Nintendo kid.BB-8 fangirl.

WHO IS THIS GUY?

Hi, my name is Tim. I’m a Technical Director and Pipeline Developer with a passion for software engineering and the art of animation. I have a background in computer science and always seek to advance creative technology to suit the needs of filmmakers. I recently graduated from Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg with my diploma in Technical Directing.

You’ll find my newest projects on here and I’ll regularly update this blog with new things I learned. If you have any questions, requests or just want to have a beer with me, feel free to get in touch.

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29 Apr

Hyperdrive: My approach to pose-based rig caching in Maya

13 Apr

Use Python Wheels with Houdini / Nuke in 2019

11 Apr

Nuke: Environment Variables in Read / Write

06 Apr

Export all Maya render layers as ASS files using Python

30 Dec

Python Scripting in DaVinci Resolve

31 Jan

Lazy database initialization with peewee proxy subclasses

30 Jan

Auto-mount Samba / CIFS shares via fstab on Linux

29 Jan

Python exception hooks with Qt message box

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Tim Lehr
Uferstr.8, 35708 Haiger, Germany
+49 151 61493316
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EDUCATION

2019

Diploma, Technical Directing

Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Ludwigsburg (Germany)

Starting in Fall 2016, I was enrolled in the Technical Directing course at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg. During my studies, I contributed to multiple student productions, expanding my knowledge in computer graphics, production workflows and pipeline development. I graduated with my diploma in April 2019.

2016

B. Sc., Media computer science

Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Friedberg (Germany)

In spring 2016, I graduated with my Bachelor of Science at Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen. During my time there, I fell in love with computer graphics and shifted my focus from app development towards the animation industry.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

2017

Pipeline TD / Developer (Freelance)

Mackevision, Stuttgart (Germany)

Recently, I did some pipeline development for the VFX division of Mackevision in Stuttgart, Germany. During the summer break of 2017 I developed a new set of Python tools for the new 3ds Max pipeline of the studio.

2015

R&D Developer (Freelance)

Metricminds, Frankfurt (Germany)

At Metricminds, I designed and developed a data streaming plugin for Autodesk MotionBuilder as part of my bachelor thesis. The C++ plugin is easy-to-use, very flexible and comes with a server module written in Python.

2013

iOS / macOS Developer (Freelance)

Dupp GmbH, Haiger (Germany)

From mid-2013 until mid-2017, I was working as a student employee for Dupp GmbH. I was solely responsible for the development, maintenance and deployment of a flexible shopping app written in Objective-C (later re-written in Swift). At the time, the app was in deployment for over thirty online-shops.