damon martinez

damon martinez

Looking to learn and grow everywhere I go.

Senior Finaling Artist / 16 yrs

Los Angeles, CA

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Image Finaling Artist

Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)

Image Finaling Lead

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023)

Image Finaling Artist

Abominable (2019)

Image Finaling Artist

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)

Stereo Compositor

Meg (2018)

Stereoscopic Compositor

A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

Stereoscopic Compositor

Black Panther (2018)

Finaling Artist / Compositor

The Boss Baby (2017)

Finaling Artist / Compositor

Trolls (2016)

Image Finaling Artist

Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)

Stereoscopic Compositor

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)

Stereoscopic Compositor

Ant-Man (2015)

Stereoscopic Compositor

Terminator: Genisys (2015)

Stereoscopic Compositor

Jurassic World (2015)

Stereoscopic Compositor

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Stereoscopic Compositor

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015)

Stereoscopic Compositor

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

Stereoscopic Painter

Deepsea Challenge 3D (2014)

Stereoscopic Compositor

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Finaling Artist

Hercules (2014)

Stereoscopic Compositor

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

Finaling Artist

Godzilla (2014)

Stereoscopic Compositor

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

Stereoscopic Compositor

Need for Speed (2014)

Stereoscopic Compositor

47 Ronin (2013)

Stereoscopic Compositor

Thor: The Dark World (2013)

Stereoscopic Compositor

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)

Stereoscopic Compositor

The Wolverine (2013)

Stereoscopic Compositor

R.I.P.D. (2013)

3D Conversion

Pacific Rim (2013)

Finaling Artist

Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

Stereoscopic Compositor

Iron Man 3 (2013)

Stereoscopic Compositor (Credits Sequence)

G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)

Stereoscopic Compositor

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)

Stereo Compositor

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)

Finaling Artist

The Avengers (2012)

Stereo Compositor (3D Version 2012)

Titanic (2012)

Stereo Paint Artist

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Paint Artist

Thor (2011)

Stereo Paint Artist

The Green Hornet (2011)

Dimensionalist

Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Dimensionalist

G-Force (2009)

Stereoscopic Compositor

Jurassic Park (1993)
Texas native who moved to Cali to further my dream of working in the movie industry. Still learning and looking to learn more from the jobs I work and the people I work with. Enjoyed every place I have been and hope to continue that in the future.
Work History

  • Finaling Artist

    DreamWorks Animation

    July 2018 - Present

  • image finaling artist

    DreamWorks Animation

    September 2015 - April 2017
    Glendale

    Corrected render errors and geometry penetrations.
    Offset fixes and corrected stereoscopic errors.
    Finalized detail work for high res images for promotional work.

  • nuke compositor

    mOcean

    March 2016 - June 2016
    Los Angeles, CA

    Set extension and clean-up
    beauty fixes
    stereoscopic clean up

  • stereoscopic compositor

    Stereo D

    November 2010 - July 2015
    Burbank, CA

    Frame-by-Frame stereo paint
    Background Clean-Plates
    Compositing plates and elements in Stereoscopic 3D

  • stereoscopic compositor

    In-Three

    September 2008 - November 2010
    Westlake Village, CA

    Stereoscopic clean-up
    Foreign trainer

  • Trainer

    Reliance MediaWorks

    2010 - 2010

    Trained artist do do matte extraction from non green screen media (live film) as well as techniques to creating background plates in prep for stereoscopic compositing.

  • Student

    The Art Institute of California - Orange County

    2005 - 2008
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Education

  • Bachelor of Science in Media Arts and Animation

    Art Institute OC CA

    ? - March 2008

  • Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Media Arts and Animation

    AICA-OC

    2004 - 2008

  • Associate of Applied Sciences

    South Plains College

    ? - May 2003