Edward Grad

Work History

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  Matte Painting supervisor / Concept Artist

  Paramount Pictures

  September 2021 - February 2022

  Los Angeles, CA
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  Senior Matte Painter / Concept Artist

  Imaginary Forces

  July 2021 - August 2021

  Foundation TV show
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  Senior Matte painter (freelance)

  Pixomondo

  June 2021 - July 2021

  Lost In Space TV Show, Station Eleven TV Show
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  Matte Painting Artist

  Narwhal Studios

  April 2021 - June 2021

  Feature film projects
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  Matte painter, Concept Artist, Art Director

  The Mill

  January 2009 - June 1921

  Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago

  Lots of exciting award winning commercials
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  Senior Matte Painter / Concept Artist

  Digital Domain

  January 2019 - January 2021

  Los Angeles, CA
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  Senior Matte Painter / Concept Artist

  Luma Pictures

  December 2020 - February 2021

  Feature film
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  Senior Matte Painter / Concept Artist

  CBS Digital

  November 2020 - January 2021

  This Is Us TV show
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  Senior Matte painter (freelance)

  Tippett Studio

  August 2020 - September 2020

  Disney NDA project
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  Senior Matte Painter / Concept Artist

  Radical Media

  September 2020 - October 2020

  High end commercials NDA.
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  Senior Matte Painter / Concept Artist

  Shade VFX

  November 2019 - July 2020

  HBO TVshow by Ridley Scott “Raised by Wolves”
  Collaboration with ILM “Bill & Ted Face the Music”

  

  

  
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  Senior Matte Painter / Concept Artist

  Method Studios

  July 2019 - October 2019

  Apple commercials
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  Senior Matte Painter / Concept Artist

  Digital Domain

  January 2019 - March 2019

  Los Angeles, CA

  PINK "Walk Me Home" music video
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  Senior Matte Painter

  DreamWorks Animation

  July 2018 - September 2018

  Glendale, California, US
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  Matte Painting Supervisor / Concept Artist

  MPC

  December 2017 - May 2018
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  Matte Painter

  Eight VFX

  October 2017 - November 2017
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  Matte Painter

  Eight VFX

  October 2017 - October 2017
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  Concept Designer

  Eight VFX

  September 2017 - October 2017
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  Senior Matte painter, Concept Artist

  The Mill

  June 2017 - August 2017
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  Senior Matte Painter / Concept Designer

  Mirada Studios

  January 2017 - February 2017
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  Senior Matte painter / Concept Artist

  Brand New School

  November 2016 - December 2016
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  Senior Matte-painter / 3D Generalist / Concept Artist

  Psyop

  July 2016 - September 2016

  Star Wars commercials and TV spots, matte painting, concept art and 3D modeling.
  Follow the link below to see an article about our work for Star Wars commercial at starwars.com
  https://www.starwars.com/news/meet-the-rebel-star-wars-fans-in-target-commercial
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  Senior Matte painter / 3D Environment Artist

  Zoic Studios

  September 2016 - October 2016

  Working on DC Comics TV show "Arrow"
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  Senior Matte painter / 3D Generalist / Concept Visual Development Arti

  Logan

  February 2016 - July 2016

  Worked on high budget TV show and BMW commercials as senior lead matte-painter, concept artist, 3D Maya modeler / generalist, visual development artist and layout artist.
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  Senior Matte painter (freelance)

  Mirada Studios

  January 2016 - February 2016

  Senior Matte-painting artist working on high-end commercials project EXXON.
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  Senior Matte painter (freelance)

  The-Artery

  December 2015 - January 2016

  Matte-paintings for Paramount Studios feature film Zoolander 2.
  Working on photorealistic panoramic city views, highly detail matte-paintings, using personal photography assets. All shots from concept art to final matte-painting handled exclusively by myself.
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  Senior Matte Painter / Concept Artist

  Stargate Studios

  October 2015 - December 2015

  Senior Matte-painting artist / Concept Art artist on Heroes Reborn and Disney TV show Lab Rats.
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  Senior Matte painter / Concept Artist / 3D generalist

  FuseFX

  August 2015 - October 2015

  Senior Matte-painting Artist / Concept Artist on MARVEL: "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.", "Manhattan Season 2".
  Lead matte-painting / concept artist working in quick turnaround environment on high-budget Marvel TV show. Also responsible for modeling 3D environments in Maya.
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  Lead Senior Matte-painter / Concept Artist / Visual Development

  yU+co

  May 2015 - June 2015

  Concept Art and Matte-painting work for: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
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  Lead Senior Matte-painter / Concept Artist

  CoSA VFX

  March 2015 - April 2015

  Working on Gotham TV series by FOX as Lead / Senior Matte-painter
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d1zpt6k5OI
  Senior Matte-painter / Visual Development Artist on TV series
  Astronaut Wives Club by ABC Studios

  
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  Senior Matte-painter / Visual Development Artist

  Atomic Fiction

  January 2015 - March 2015

  Leading artist creating matte-paintings for Robert Zemeckis feature film The Walk
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBicCZG4vg0
  Art Direction and consulting on architectural look of New York City in 1974. Specializing on large city matte paintings, 360 degree master matte-paintings with precise photo-realistic look at different time of the day and 20K panoramic matte-paintings of New York City.
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  Senior Matte painter / Designer / Visual Development Artist

  Framestore

  December 2014 - January 2015

  Leading matte-painting team as Senior Matte-painting artist for high-end commercials at Framestore.
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  Senior Matte-Painter / Concept Artist / Art Director - Freel

  MPC

  July 2014 - November 2014

  Moving Picture Company https://www.moving-picture.com
  Working as a Lead Senior Matte-painting artist on top MPC projects, creating photo-realistic 2D Matte-paintings, 3D Maya projection matte-paintings. Concept Art, Visual Development and Art-Direction for leading MPC's clients.

  

  
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  Lead Look Dev Artist / Lead Matte - Painter / Set Extension Artist

  Walt Disney Animation Studios

  May 2013 - December 2013

  Working on animated feature film, focused on creation of CG environments with photorealistic 3D textures. Responsible for developing 2D workflow for set-extension and matte-painting for Big Hero 6. Every step of the project requires lots of deep creative thinking, extensive technical experience, artistic vision and work collaboration with top Disney and Pixar art directors. Digital environments consulting at Look Development department for Oscar winning animation feature Frozen.

  

  
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  Senior Matte Painter

  Rhythm & Hues Studios

  November 2012 - April 2013

  Matte-painting architectural city views for R.I.P.D. and The Seventh Son feature film, creating 3D camera projections, working with 3D geometry, texturing, rendering, working through Rhythm & Hues pipeline to create matte-painting and CG environments.
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  Art Director

  321Launch

  November 2011 - May 2012

  Art direction for television post-production, revisualization, partnership with BBDO.
  CG Environments, Digital photography.
  Clients: Coca-cola, Fanta, Head & Shoulders, Procter and Gamble products, Hershey's, Gillette, Perrier, Febreze, Oral B, Visine, Tamiflu, Lysol, Kellogg's...and many more.

• Senior Matte-painting Artist / 3D Supervisor / New York History Consul

  Brainstorm Digital / HBO, New York City

  April 2011 - October 2011

  3D Supervising, Matte-painiting, texturing and set extension work for multiple projects, focusing on TV shows and feature films. Additionally: architectural photography, on set photography. Historical architecture of New York and Fine Art consultant . Our team won EMMY Award for Outstanding Achievement in Visual Effects 2011.
  - Boardwalk Empire Season 2
  - The Men Who Built America, History Channel - 2012
  - Violet and Daisy
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  Matte Painting Artist / 3D Environment TD

  Rodeo FX

  December 2010 - March 2011

  Working on high-profile feature films as: Matte-painter / 3D Environment Artist / Concept
  - Immortals, 2011
  - The Three Musketeers, 2011 stereoscopic feature by Paul W.S. Anderson

  
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  Senior Matte Painter/ Concept Lead Artist

  Lumiere VFX Inc.

  November 2010 - December 2010

  Photo-realistic matte paintings and 3D Environments for National Geographic films:
  Journey to the Earth's Core
  Bigfoot
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  Senior Matte Painting Artist / 3D Environment artist / Concept Artist

  The Mill

  March 2010 - October 2010

  Working as a Matte Painting Artist and 3D Environment TD, to create photo-realistic Set-extensions and CG sets for stunning commercials. VERIZON Droid spots, DISCOVER Card, LYSOL spots. Tools used: Photoshop, Maya, Nuke, After Effects, Illustrator.

• Senior Matte Painter / 3D Environment Artist

  Intelligent Creatures

  September 2009 - February 2010

  Feature film:
  Piranha 3-D (2009)
  The Bang Bang Club (2010)
  Nosso Lar (2009)
  Opening Olympic Games Vancouver 2010
  Photo-realistic matte paintings, 3D environments, 2D set extensions, concept artist. Texturing, modeling environmental assets.

  
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  Art of Matte Painting in VFX - course instructor

  Centennial College

  March 2009 - September 2009

  Course instructor, entire course program was written and created by me.
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  Matte Painting / Environment Artist (Art Department)

  Starz Animation

  October 2008 - April 2009

  Feature animation "Hoodwinked 2: Hood vs. Evil"
  Responsible to create photo realistic and artistic matte paintings, set extensions. Lead artist responsibility working on CG Environments, using Maya 2.5D/ 3D projections and designing environments. Working with and reporting to Art Director, Sweatbox meetings.
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  Matte Painter / 3D Environments artist / Texturing Artist (VFX Departe

  C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures

  February 2008 - September 2008

  Project: "The Tudors" 3 season, historical TV series.
  Project: "War of Worlds"
  Creating photo-realistic matte paintings, CG environments, set extensions, using 2.5D/ 3D projections techniques, 3D modeling. Software: Maya, Photoshop, Render Man. Was painting photo real textures for architectural assets of old England, and responsible for artistic ideas and approaches.
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  Digital Artist / Compositor (Stereoscopic conversion departement)

  IMAX

  September 2007 - January 2008

  Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix - feature film
  Created masks and depth of field, using keying and rotoscoping techniques, preparing shots for 3D stereoscopic conversion using Shake.
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  Art Director / VFX supervisor

  Autodesk

  February 2007 - August 2007

  Worked on: Presentation and short film
  TED conference 2007, Autodesk Short Film
  Responsible for all computer generated assets in film and artistic direction during entire project. Work involves compositing, animation, troubleshooting all technical issues and TD responsibilities.
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  Matte-painting Artist / Compositor

  MTV

  April 2006 - May 2006

  I was contracted as Compositor and Matte Artist for Nike commercials. Software: Shake.
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  Matte Painting Artist / Art Director

  Zink

  2006 - 2006

  Worked on Music Videos
  Responsible for VFX process, and artistic ideas for TV and music videos projects using 3D and 2D techniques. Some projects required using advanced compositing.

• Art Director / Matte-paintiing Artist

  Studio Unique

  2004 - 2005

  Worked on TV projects.
  VFX/Compositing, illustration, 2D Animation in After Effects, process involves use of variety multimedia tools, and communication with client.

• Concept Artist / Art Director

  Art Gallery of Ontario

  2003 - 2005

• Supervising Graphic Design Artist

  LITH ART Ltd.

  2002 - 2004

  Leading graphic artist’s team, creating graphic art and illustrations.
  Using: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects troubleshooting support, printing, multimedia.

• Presentation Developer, Real Estate Agent

  RE/MAX West Realty Inc.

  2002 - 2003

  Creator of presentations. Selling commercial and residential real estates.

• Art Director / Concept Artist

  Sport FX / NHL, Toronto

  1999 - 2002

  Responsible for leading graphic art team and creating concepts for NHL licensed products at Canada's leading souvenir products company. Illustration and design for NHL souvenir products, multimedia products.

• Freelance Art Director, Digital Matte-painter, Graphic Designer, Illus

  Freelance Graphic Designer

  1995 - 1998

  Was focusing on graphic design and illustration, working in advertisement industry and TV channels design.

• Motion Graphics Designer

  National Television Company

  1996 - 1996

  Art direction and creation of motion graphics for commercials, music videos and channel id's for National Television company.

• Art Director, Lead Graphic Designer, Photographer

  Nemiga Newspaper

  1992 - 1996

  Designing newspaper look, creative ideas, managing graphic designers team, photographer. Focusing on creating original look of music and entrainment newspaper. I started here as a fresh new student artist and achieved to become Art Director managing whole graphic designers team.
  Software used: Photoshop, QuarkXPress, Corel Draw, Aldus PageMaker