Joe DiCesare
Senior Digital Artist with 20+ years of experience in VFX.
Senior Digital Matte Painter / Senior Texture Artist / 21 yrs
Los Angeles, CA
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A member of the Visual Effects Society, Joe has worked on motion pictures as well as television series, video games and advertising for major studios in Los Angeles, New York and internationally. His work has twice received recognition from the Society of Illustrators, New York, NY.
Work History
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Senior Matte Painter
Sony Pictures Imageworks
October 2015 - March 2016
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Senior Matte Painter
DreamWorks Animation
January 2012 - January 2015GlendaleResponsible for creating matte paintings for the computer-animated film How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), and also Turbo (2013). Paintings created in Photoshop under the direction of the Art Director and Matte Painting Supervisor. Paintings include large sky and cloud vistas as well as various beauty shots created for each film.. Also responsible for executing pre-visualization images to help develop keys for the look of the skies seen throughout the film.
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Senior Digital Artist
Sony Pictures Imageworks
2002 - November 2011Culver City, CAResponsible for a variety of complex tasks ranging from creating highly realistic and/or stylized matte paintings for feature films, texture painting for main characters, as well as leading a team of artists on a number of projects. Credits include: The Polar Express,Open Season, SpiderMan 3, Surf's Up, Beowulf, and other feature films.
Matte Painting Supervisor for: Arthur Christmas
Texture Lead for: Superman Returns
Matte Painting Lead for: G-Force
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Viewpaint Artist
Industrial Light & Magic
1998 - 1999Responsible for creating photorealistic texture maps for the film Star Wars: Episode I. Used proprietary software (Viewpaint) to texture props and environments. Also created character texture maps and environments for the film Frankenstein And The Wolfman (unreleased).
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Education
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Pratt Institute
1980 - 1984