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Andrew Swihart

Andrew Swihart - 3d Generalist in Film, Games, Interactive

Senior Generalist / 27 yrs

Los Angeles, CA

Hire Me

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

Previz

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition (2016)

Previz Arist

Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

Matte Painter

As a 20 year veteran of the video game and feature film industries.

" I have enjoyed all aspects of digital art since I was a child playing on my on my Commodore 64. I still love it today. My greatest passion is creating exceptional artwork that exceeds my client's expectations."

-Andrew Swihart

Andrew has worked along side of some of Hollywoods finest such as Steven Spielberg, J.J. Abrams, Roland Emerch, and Megan Ellison. With a talented eye for art direction he has frequntly be

Work History

Executive Producer

SwihartStudios

November 2016 - Present
Supervisor

SwihartStudios

August 2016 - September 2016
Previz Artist

Uncharted Territory

January 2015 - August 2015

Los Angeles, California

Created 3d environments, characters, vehicles, aircraft with, textures that looked like the concept art. Set up scene files with lighting, FX, and animation. Animated the Camera, vehicles, characters and more to match story boards. Took direction from the director to make the shots work in the edit. Had a great time.
previs artist

20th Century Fox

January 2015 - March 2015
Previz Artist

Bad Robot

August 2014 - October 2014

Paramount Studios

Previz Artist
Previz Artist

The Cavalry FX

December 2013 - February 2014

Los Angeles, California

Creation of 3d Environments, Concepts, Characters, and action sequences.
Previz Artist

MPC

September 2013 - November 2013

Los Angeles, California

Creation of 3d Environments, Concepts, Characters, and action sequences.
3d Generalist

Spacial Harmonics Group

August 2013 - August 2013

Los Angeles, California

3d Tracking, 3d Generalist, compositing
VFX Generalist

Inhance Digital

January 2013 - June 2013

Greater Los Angeles Area

General Purpose 3D needs for commercials, interactive, demos ect..
Matte Painting Instructor

Gnomon School of Visual Effects

January 2013 - March 2013

Greater Los Angeles Area

Teaching Matte Painting, 3d Projection, and compositing to students.
VFX Generalist

The Woo Agency

November 2012 - December 2012

Greater Los Angeles Area

CG Product Placment, 3d tracking, vray lighting and compoiting for SunSweet Comercial
VFX Generalist

Traveling Picture Show Company

October 2012 - November 2012
3d Matte Painter

Pixomondo

August 2011 - October 2012

3d Matte Painting
3D Matte Painter

unitzero vfx

April 2012 - July 2012

Hollywood CA

3d Matte Painting, 3d Generalist, Compositing and Tracking
3D Tracking and Composite

SHG Visual Effects

June 2012 - June 2012

Santa Monica

Tracking and Comp
VFX Generalist

Inhance Digital

October 2011 - May 2012

Greater Los Angeles Area
VFX and PreVisualization Generalist

Pixel Liberation Front

March 2011 - October 2011

Greater Los Angeles Area

PreVisualization, Photography, Location Digitization, 3d Modeling, 3d Textureing, 3d Animation, Camera Animation
VFX Generalist

Inhance Digital

December 2010 - March 2011
Visual FX for Independent Film Directors

Freelance

November 2010 - March 2011

FX shots from start to finish in 3dsmax to Nuke for several Feature Films at intependant studios and film makers.
3d Generalist, Photogrametery, 3D MattePainter

Skully FX

October 2010 - November 2010

3d Generalist, Photogrametery, 3D Matte Painting, 3D Tracking
Director

SwihartStudios

June 2010 - November 2010

Writer Director for a music video by artist Shon Abrams, 'sKribble.'
Photogrammetry / Projection Modeling and Texturing

Sway Studio

July 2010 - August 2010

Mini Coper / Scion Commercials
Photogrametery, 3d texture and modeling of environments.
3D Generalist

Pixomondo

May 2010 - June 2010

Makeing 3d photoreal environment for for feature film.
VFX and PreVisualization Generalist

Pixel Liberation Front

October 2009 - May 2010
Visual FX artist

Sony Pictures Entertainment

May 2008 - June 2009

Building environments in 3D and destroying them for the Feature Film '2012'. 3D Mattpainting, and animation.
Research and Development Artist

Activision

July 2007 - May 2008

Developed new pipelines for to facilitate new concepts into existing Studios work flow.
Researched emerging new technologies such as below
- Photogrametry
- Shaders
- Advanced High Dynamic Range Spherical Camera Systems
- Satelight Data to 3D map acquisition
- Photo-modeling techniques
- Advanced Photon Ray lighting Systems
- Newest 3d engine technologies
- Tool Design
Environment Artist

Treyarch

April 2005 - May 2007

Built, textured and lit multiple impressive massive environments for Spider-man 3.
Worked in a large team environment with positive experiences with everyone in the group.
Began as a Junior Environment Artist and by the end of the project had been promoted to Senior Artist.
User interface / Front End Aristist

Activision

January 2000 - June 2001

Co-Designed with Art Director’s, Lead Game Designer’s and Lead Programmer’s high concept to create the look, feel and flow of the Front-End and in-game UI for Spider-Man: the Movie Game.
Created nearly all art assets used in the Front-End and in-game UI Spider-Man: the Movie Game including concepts, placeholder art, and the art the game shipped with.
Worked closely with many other talented and experienced programmers and artist to help create Spider-Man: the Movie Game.
Art Director / 3d Artist

WayForward Technologies

January 1997 - January 1999

Supervised up to fourteen 3D and 2D animators and artists on nine interactive PC titles.
Designed and created all interfaces for company projects in years 1999-2000.
Insured all deadlines where met without compromising the quality of the products.
Facilitated communications with Producers and Publishers.
Started as an intern in 1996, and was promoted to supervising Art Director by 1998.