Rob Blau started working on animation pipelines ten years ago at Dreamworks Animation during Sinbad, and eventually managed the global pipeline team. Five years later, he left to travel the world and landed at Laika, where he was again pipeline supervisor. There he led the Laika dev team in putting together a stop motion pipeline. Once it was solid he left for Shotgun Software where he is Head of Pipeline, helping put together Shotgun's Pipeline Toolkit, which he hopes will become a pipeline standard the world over.