Nicholas Smolyn

Work History

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  Senior Rough Layout Artist

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  January 2021 - Present
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  Senior Previs/Layout

  Cinesite

  June 2020 - December 2020

  Vancouver, Canada
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  Senior Rough Layout Artist

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  July 2017 - June 2018

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Hotel Transylvania 3
  Lucky 13
  Smallfoot

  
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  Senior Layout Artist

  MPC

  January 2017 - June 2017

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Feature Film
  
  Justice League
  The Dark Tower

  

  
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  Layout TD

  Double Negative

  November 2015 - June 2016

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Feature Film
  
  Star Trek Beyond

  
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  Layout Supervisor

  Rainmaker Entertainment

  April 2014 - November 2015

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Worked on Bob the Builder
  80+, 11 min episodes
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  Senior Layout Artist

  Rainmaker Entertainment

  January 2013 - March 2014

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Worked on Barbie Films
  Barbie: The Pearl Princess
  Barbie and the Secret Door
  Barbie in Princess Power
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  Senior Shot Finalist

  Rainmaker Entertainment

  September 2012 - December 2012

  Vancouver

  Working on re shoots for Escape from Planet Earth
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  Layout Artist

  Image Engine

  May 2012 - August 2012

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Layout for feature films Elysium and RIPD
  Layout Artist
  Placing assets in correct positions, lining up and animating against live action plates and full CG shots.
  Made and animated cameras for full CG shots.
  Used Nuke to comp shots together.

  
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  Senior Shot Finalist

  Rainmaker Entertainment

  October 2011 - May 2012

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Feature Animated Film Escape From Planet Earth
  -Making sure quality and continuity is established to shots as they move through the pipeline. By tweaking and fixing animation errors, investigating and fixing/redirecting modeling/surfacing/rendering errors.
  -Setting up/applying animated screen textures called Googs onto geometry and implementing into the pipeline
  -Preparing/layering/Cleaning Matte paintings in photoshop for Lighting/Comp

  
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  Electronic Arts

  June 2011 - October 2011

  
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  Previs/Capture Artist

  Electronic Arts Canada

  June 2011 - October 2011

  Cinematic Trailers for Need for Speed the Run
  Prevised a lot of coverage in Maya, implemented, then captured footage real time with the Frostbite 2 game engine. Lots of problem solving and troubleshooting involved with the game engine.
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  Lead Environmental Artist

  Nitrogen Studios

  September 2008 - June 2011

  Children’s TV series “Thomas and Friends”
  Prepping sets in Maya then creating, lighting and rendering detailed terrain and foliage using the program Vue.
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  Previs/Layout Artist

  Rainmaker Entertainment

  January 2008 - August 2008

  Feature animated Film “Escape From Planet Earth” (First iteration)
  Created shots, from previs to final layout, which included cinematography, modeling props, animating, lighting, texturing: anything that best represented the story to its fullest before animation with direction from the director and the DOP.
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  Layout Artist

  Vanguard Films & Animation

  April 2007 - December 2007

  Feature animated Film “Space Chimps”
  With direction from DOP made fixes and revisions to shots, broke out shots from scene file, made new camera shots from scratch when needed, made rough animations to characters/props and timed them
  correctly, and adjusted the Depth of Field.