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THE MERIDIAN / PRODUCTION CONTINUITY
01 SURFACE HOLD
Creative Technology Leader Applied AI, Games & Interactive Media
I build AI-enabled tools, workflows, and prototypes that help creative teams make ambitious interactive work.
Seventeen years of creative work. Nine of them inside Google, Facebook, and Meta.
Early to the new thing, on purpose — a VR kiosk in 2016, volumetric capture in 2022, apps for smart glasses now.
One sailing game, in development, directed as a studio of one.
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Today that means Meta’s central content studio — the pipelines, the tools, and the AI now running inside both.
I define the system, break it into modules, direct the AI-assisted build, test what comes back, and preserve the creative whole — and I know where production hardening needs dedicated engineering ownership.
A navigator fixes position by sighting something that doesn’t move.
Everything after this is what I’ve sighted against.
I lead the team behind Meta’s central content studio: five editors and motion designers, a wider network of fifteen-plus, and about 170 videos a week across twenty-plus brand channels. A cadence like that runs on instruments.I lead Meta’s central content studio: five editors, ~170 videos a week.
I also run applied-AI enablement for the org: a master class with VPs in the room that overflowed and ran twice, and a report I sponsored who became the studio’s most-requested AI expert and earned his promotion.I run the org’s applied-AI enablement. A report I sponsored earned his promotion.
All of that is the job.
The work I like best starts as a question nobody assigned. These are the ones that got made.The work I like best starts as a question nobody assigned.
SHIPPED · SMART GLASSES
Darkroom BuddyA Ray-Ban Display app. My concept, my direction. Meta’s CTO showed it off while announcing the Display developer platform.A Ray-Ban Display app. My concept, my direction.
BUILT · PREMIERE PRO
A plugin inside the editEditors were hunting for assets instead of cutting, so I put what they needed inside Premiere. 80% of the team was using it within one launch cycle.What the editors needed, inside Premiere. 80% adoption in one launch cycle.
WRITING · PUBLIC
“Your Backlog is not a Burden”I write about games in public because I want to know why the good ones work.
Also — Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 · Sword of the Sea · Ghost of Yōtei
The biggest one is still in development.
SAILING GAMEIN DEVELOPMENTSINCE 08 · 2024
A small boat, a big sea, and the feeling of finding your way.
The same loop as the fleet, with nobody else in the room — gameplay, visual systems, sound, and testing, broken into modules one person can hold and directed module by module.
AI was the wrong tool for the final 3D art, animation, and narrative. I wrote the story myself, then worked with a specialist 3D modeler and animator to turn my boat sketch into the asset in the build.AI was wrong for the final 3D art, animation, and narrative. I wrote the story; a specialist 3D modeler and animator built the boat.
AT SPEED · IN-ENGINE CAPTURE
No generated imagery ships here.
Still building. Still teaching. Always interested in ambitious interactive work.
stacyobakpolor@gmail.comN 360 / BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
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