Former Roblox Tech Chief Keith Lucas Joins ‘The Liberator’ Producer Trioscope

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EXCLUSIVE: Trioscope, the company behind Netflix’s The Liberator, is working with former Roblox exec Keith Lucas as it looks to expand its animation technology.Lucas was employee number seven at the online games platform, which has over 200M monthly users and served as both Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer for the company.He joins Trioscope’s advisory board and will work with the company as it looks to increase the number of studios using its technology to create TV and films as well as develop its own consumer platform.At Roblox, he built the product organization, scaled the engineering and operations of its tech stack.

Most recently, he served as the COO at Instrumental, an AI-powered manufacturing optimization company.It comes as the company, which was founded by L.C.

Crowley, Brandon Barr and Greg Jonkajtys, is moving into its next stage of growth.The company has a number of projects in development with Netflix, Showtime and CBS Studios and has partnered with talent such as Ethan Hawke.

It is also working with Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin and Vincent D’Onofrio on short film Night of the Cooters and has other feature film projects in the works.The plan is two-fold; it will develop and produce its own original projects, working with co-producers and broadcasters and streamers, while also looking to get third party studios to develop projects using its technology on their own productions.