Tim McLaughlin
Dean, School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts, Texas A&M University
Tim McLaughlin is Dean of Texas A&M University’s College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts and Director of the Virtual Production Institute. Tim joined Texas A&M following a career in visual effects at Industrial Light & Magic and Lucasfilm Animation.
In industry, Tim’s teams developed groundbreaking computer graphics techniques for digital creatures in films including Jumanji, Mars Attacks!, Star Wars: Episode I, War of the Worlds, and James Cameron’s virtual production proof-of-concept project for Avatar.
At Texas A&M, Tim leads a college focused on blending emerging technologies with art, design, performance, computational methods, and the humanities to support creative expression.