Backlot
Virtual film production software. Physically accurate cameras and lighting that a real crew recognizes, with 2TB of sets streamed into a sub-1GB install.
- Role
- Simulation Engineer (Technical Lead)
- Company
- Backlot Studio
- Period
- May 2020 – Nov 2022
- Status
- Shipped
- 15+ / 30+Cameras / light fixtures simulated
- 2TB → <1GBStreamed install
- 16 hSaved per scene
What I did
- Led 8 engineers building a tool where a film crew blocks, lights and shoots a scene together across platforms.
- Physically accurate simulation of 15+ camera types and 30+ lighting fixtures, so a shot framed in the app matches the real lens.
- Addressables streaming layer: 2TB+ of assets behind an install under 1GB, with pre-fetch and fallback.
- Custom Editor tooling that saved 16 hours of integration work per scene.
- Real-time sync and cross-platform persistence on Windows, Mac and iOS.
