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Matthew Kiefer

Senior Lighting Artist / 12 yrs

Vancouver, Canada

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Lead Lighting TD

Mulan (2020)

Lead Lighting TD

Untitled Henry & Rel Sci-Fi Project (2020)

Senior Lighting TD

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

Senior Lighting TD

Love, Death & Robots (2019)

Senior Lighting TD

Carnival Row (2019)

Lighting & Compositing Artist

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Senior Lighting TD

The Emoji Movie (2017)

Lighting / Compositing TD

Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)

Lighting TD

The Angry Birds Movie (2016)

Storks (2016)

Lighting TD

Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

Visual Effects Artist

Con Man (2015)

Lighting Artist

The Book of Life (2014)

Compositor

Space Station 76 (2014)

Lighting Artist

Free Birds (2013)

Turbo (2013)

Rise of the Guardians (2012)

Visual Effects

Game of Thrones (2011)

Lighting TA

Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

Lighting Technical Artist

Kung Fu Panda Holiday (2010)

Lead Lighter

The Collector (2009)

Work History

Senior Lighting TD

Sony Pictures Imageworks

April 2015 - February 2016
Lead Lighting Artist

42 Entertainment

October 2014 - January 2015

Led a team of lighting artists on an advertising project. Deliverables included numerous 10-second animated shorts to be used for "station bumpers", as well as delivering high-res stills for marketing purposes.
Lighting Artist

Reel FX

May 2013 - August 2014

Lighting and compositing shots.
Lighter

DreamWorks Animation

July 2009 - May 2013

Shot lighting.
Lighting TA

DreamWorks Animation

July 2009 - October 2011

Lighting rig setup, pipeline tool development, render template management, cross-department development, overall lighting-make-go-bettering.
Snr. Lighting TD

Sony Pictures Imageworks

? - Present

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Education

Savannah College of Art and Design

2006 - 2009