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Agentic workspaces
I build practical AI sandboxes that can search, organize, generate, and move work across files and production applications while keeping state visible.
Relocation signalATL → HAWAIʻI
Departure / Atlanta00%
Boarding pass / relocation
Ready for departureRELOCATING
TO HAWAIʻI.
Technical art, AI-assisted tools, real-time engines, and production pipelines. Relocating with intent.
PassengerMax Thomas
FromATLAtlanta, Georgia
ToKOAKailua-Kona / Hawaiʻi
RoleTechnical artist / AI pipelines
Arrival status
Ready to build from day one.
Base in Kona. Open statewide for the right team and mandate.
Route schematicAtlanta, Georgia
Departing ATL for Kona.
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MAX
THOMAS.
Virtual Production Specialist, technical artist, and creative technologist building AI-assisted production systems across 3D, real-time engines, motion capture, and generative pipelines. Film-grade method, built to transfer: defense, healthcare, education, enterprise, and media.
Co-founder · Technical builder
Two degree programsB.A. Game Design · M.F.A. Virtual Production
58-camera volumeVicon capture · Real-time production
10+ courses builtAI · Game design · Virtual production
Featured developerReallusion · Public masterclasses
Moana ◆ The Electric State ◆ The Suicide Squad ◆ Foundry 45 / Axon ◆ Richard Childress Racing ◆ Neal Stephenson / SBS D Forum ◆ ActorCapture ◆ CMII ◆ Reallusion ◆
What I build / any industry
TOOLS / PIPELINES
Capture, AI generation, real-time engines, and pipeline engineering are industry-agnostic. The film credits below are proof of scale and deadline discipline. The method applies anywhere a team needs to move complex visual work from idea to delivery.
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Production pipelines
I connect capture, 3D assets, real-time engines, AI models, and production data into workflows that survive beyond a one-off demo.
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Custom tools
I prototype the missing piece, whether that means a tracked camera rig, an Unreal workflow, an automation script, or a usable interface for a creative team.
Work
SELECTED PROJECTS
Reallusion AI features
Full AI brand commercial workflowBrief, casting, 3D staging, controlled generation, and conventional finishing. Four public features documenting the full production method.
Featured developer / public workflow disclosure / open-source R&D Watch current feature ↗AI Creative Industries Symposium
AI production systems
Dhimanth Rao and I compared AI production workflows used in U.S. creative technology and Australian defense media. We showed how image, video, 3D, and automation now move through one production loop.
United States / Australia View the public symposium program ↗
2017–2019
Foundry 45 / enterprise XR
Enterprise VR training
Built interactive training, photoreal environments, and LMS-connected experiences for UPS, NCR, The Weather Channel, Delta, and Virtuosi. Foundry 45 was later acquired by Axon.
Unity / Unreal / VR interaction / LMS
2013
Grainger / NASCAR
From screen to speedway
Took the Grainger sponsorship design from concept to a Nationwide Series track test in Texas. A two-year Ryan Newman deal followed.
Texas test / two-year deal followed
2025
Disney / virtual production
Moana
Virtual Production Specialist for performance R&D and motion-capture consulting on Disney’s live-action Moana. Large-scale capture systems and real-time workflows delivered under major-production deadlines.
Virtual production / performance R&D
2022–2023
Netflix / virtual production
The Electric State
Worked as a Virtual Production Specialist leading technical capture systems on the 58-camera Vicon volume supporting Netflix’s The Electric State.
Virtual production / 58-camera Vicon volumePrograms / teaching
PROGRAMS BUILT.
PEOPLE PLACED.
$1M+Technology funding
2Degree programs
10+Courses built
58Camera volume
At Georgia State CMII, I helped turn production experience into working curriculum: the B.A. in Game Design, the M.F.A. in Virtual Production and Visual Effects, and more than ten hands-on courses.
Cross-department collaboration helped direct more than $1 million in technology funding into CMII’s LED wall, RED cinema-camera systems, and a student PC-building workshop. Those machines supported national-championship esports teams and the university’s large-scale PantherLAN tournament.
The same instinct drives my technical work. Build the tool, document the pipeline, test it with real people, and improve it until a team can use it. Eight students joined Netflix’s The Electric State while still enrolled, and other teams earned international recognition in virtual production and undergraduate research.
Eight studentsJoined Netflix’s The Electric State while enrolled
First U.S. memberAsian Virtual Human Association
South KoreaVirtual production program with the Ministry of Science and ICT
Best Creative / 2025AVHA International 48-Hour Virtual Production Contest
Featured developerReallusion masterclass instructor
Open to work / Hawaiʻi
BRING ME THE HARD PROBLEM.
Seeking a hands-on role in AI-assisted pipelines, technical art, virtual production, real-time systems, or immersive experiences — across defense, healthcare, education, tourism, enterprise, and media. Open to senior individual-contributor and collaborative team roles across Hawaiʻi.