Matt Schnittker has worked in the entertainment industry since 1998 as Linux developer and technology manager. His involvement in feature film production started with Disney's ambitious 2000 animated feature, "Dinosaur," and he most recently worked on the Studio's upcoming feature release, "Encanto". Schnittker has been involved in both traditional 2D, and fully digital 3D animation pipelines. He has contributed to several Disney patents and won an International 3D Society Lumiere Award for his work on 3D Pipelines. For hobbies, he likes repairing old vacuum tube radios and living history events.