Joshua Qualtieri

Joshua Qualtieri

Senior Modeler / Senior Shader TD / 25 yrs

Oakland, CA

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Modeling Artist

The Good Dinosaur (2015)

Shading Artist

Lifted (2015)

Technical Director

Piggy (2012)

Thanks

Hominid (2012)

Sets Modeling Artist

Brave (2012)

Sets

Burn-E (2008)

3D Artist

WALL·E (2008)

Digital Effects Artist

WALL·E (2008)

Additional Shading Artist

Ratatouille (2007)

Shading Lead

One Man Band (2006)

Technical Artist

Boundin' (2004)

Technical Director

The Incredibles (2004)

Systems Administrator & Support

Monsters, Inc. (2001)

Systems Administrator / Systems Supporter

Toy Story 2 (1999)

Systems Administrator / Systems Supporter

A Bug's Life (1998)

Props

Horizon

Work History
  • Owner

    ZombieSmith

    November 1996 - Present

    Award winning table top gaming company. https://www.zombiesmith.com
    Several books published: This Quar's War, Songs of Our Ancestors, Of Spats and Pedrails, Tales of the Breach, War of Ashes: Shieldwall and War of Ashes: Shieldbash.
    Several hundred unique figures sold (in pewter): Quar, War of Ashes, Misc Sci-fi, Misc Fantasy, Zombies and Flytrap Factory's lines.

  • Co-Founder

    Steel Wool Games

    October 2012 - February 2019

    Duct-tape.
    Developing our own IPs for mobile, console and PC with a whole bunch of work-for-hire sprinkled in!
    Recently released: Flyhunter Origins on the iOS app store, Google Play and PC/Mac Steam!

  • Instructor

    Ex'pression College

    January 2010 - July 2015

    Instructor for Reel Pro 1 and Reel Pro 2. Mentoring of students completing their final senior projects for their demo reels.

  • Technical Director

    Pixar

    1997 - 2013

    Films:
    The Good Dinosaur - Modeling and Shading
    Brave - Modeling and Shading
    Partly Cloudy - Modeling, Shading and Painting
    Burn-e - Modeling and Shading and Painting
    Wall-e - Shading and Painting
    Ratatouille - Shading
    Lifted - Shading and Painting
    One Man Band - Shading and Painting
    Boundin' - Shading

    Pixar Shorts Dept:
    Misc. Short Projects, Commercials, Oscars, and Theme Park Related projects.
    Nemo Seas (Epcot Attraction) - Integration of Digital Assets and Practical Sets
    Nemo Submarine Ride (Disneyland Attraction) - Integration of Digital Assets and Practical Sets
    Turtle Talk - (Epcot Attraction) - Building of real time Nemo assets for interactive experience.
    Knick-Knack - Remaster and conversion to widescreen
    Oscars - Comping of Pixar characters into various live action sequences
    Commercials - Too many to count.
    MOMA Exhibit, NY, NY - Artscape multimedia wall for Museum of Modern Art world tour.


    Pixar University - Internal education of existing employees, interns and liaison to outside interests.
    Courses include:
    Renderman Shading Class - One week class taught to incoming interns and residents. Also taught as refresher to prior shading TDs and lighting TDs.
    "Class Day" Lecturer - Provided 4 classes per day of 30+ Emery Ed Fund donors a lesson on how animated films are made. Annual event.

    IT Dept -
    Monsters Inc - IT
    Toy Story 2 - IT
    A Bug's Life - IT