Alyssa Zarate

Alyssa Zarate

Art Director / Production Designer / 18 yrs

Vancouver, Canada

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Environment & Matte Painting Supervisor

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

Visual Effects Art Director

Ghosted (2023)

Director

Unannounced Title (2024)

Visual Effects Art Director

Wolves

Visual Effects Art Director

Disclaimer

Visual Effects Art Director

My Lady Jane (2024)

Visual Effects Art Director

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

Visual Effects Art Director

The Last Of Us (2023)

visual effects art director

Fast X (2023)

Environment & Matte Painting Supervisor

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

Pre-Production VAD

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

visual effects art director

The Peripheral (2022)

visual effects art director

The Last Of Us (2023)

Environment & Matte Painting Supervisor

Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)

Lead Matte Painter

The Mitchell's vs. The Machines (2021)

Senior Matte Painter

The Sea Beast (2022)

Senior Matte Painter

Mulan (2020)

Matte Painting Supervisor

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

Lead Matte Painter

Love, Death & Robots (2019)

Matte Painter

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

Senior Matte Painter / Concept Artist

Alice Through the Looking Glass (2010)

Senior Matte Painter

Jurassic World (2015)

Digital Matte Painter

Jersey Boys (2014)

Matte Painter / Concept Artist

The 100 (2014)

Matte Painter

The Grandmaster (2013)

Visual Effects

Game of Thrones (2011)

Visual Effects Junior Matte Painter

Spartacus: War of the Damned (2010)

Lead Matte Painter

Original Netflix Content

Senior Matte Painter

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

Senior Matte Painter

Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)

Senior Matte Painter

Ghostbusters (2016)

Senior Matte Painter

Point Break (2015)

Senior Matte Painter

Seventh Son (2015)

Senior Matte Painter

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

Maleficent (2014)

300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

I, Frankenstein (2014)

Matte Painter

The Wolverine (2013)

Matte Painter

The Great Gatsby (2013)

Matte Painter

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)

Digital Matte Painter

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

Digital Matte Painter

Once Upon a Time (2011)

2012 (2009)

Artist

2012: Supernova (2009)

Artist

Empire: Total War (2009)

Artist

Night at the Museum (2006)

I am an Production Designer/Art Director based in Vancouver, Canada. Up until recently, I worked as an Environment & Matte Painting Supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks. I started out as a Production Designer for Film and TV in New Zealand and Australia. Great art direction and environment design is what I strive to do on every projects while maintaining great teamwork and collaboration across all dept in the production pipeline. I graduated with Fine Arts (Distinction) and Computer Science (Hons).


Skills:
- Production Design
- Art Direction
- Matte Painting
- Illustration
- Digital Environment
- Set Extension

Software Knowledge:
- Adobe Photoshop
- Nuke
- Maya
- Houdini
- Unreal Engine
- Reality Capture
Work History
  • Art Director

    beloFX

    August 2022 - Present
  • Production Designer

    Contractor and Freelance

    June 2017 - Present

    Netflix Original Contents
    Amazon Prime
    HBO
    Starz Entertainment
    National Geographic

  • Environment & Matte Painting Supervisor

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    September 2020 - July 2022
    Vancouver, BC
  • Lead Matte Painter

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    August 2017 - July 2022
    Vancouver, Canada

    Working on Live Action and Animation Features

    The Mitchells vs The Machines
    Spider-Man: Far From Home
    Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
    Love, Death & Robots: Lucky 13
    Spider-Man: Homecoming

  • Sony Pictures Imageworks

    January 2015 - July 2022
  • Senior Matte Painter

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    January 2015 - May 2017
    Vancouver, Canada

    Working on Live Action and Animation Features

    Smurfs: The Lost Village
    Ghostbusters
    Alice Through The Looking Glass

    Matte Painting / Concept design using Photoshop, Houdini, Maya, Nuke, Katana and Cinema 4D

  • Matte Painter

    Digital Post

    March 2017 - April 2017
  • Matte Painter

    Saatchi & Saatchi

    January 2017 - February 2017
  • Senior Matte Painter

    Image Engine

    October 2014 - February 2015
    Vancouver, Canada Area

    Matte Painting for:
    Point Break
    Jurassic World
    Game of Thrones (Season 5)

  • Senior Matte Painter

    Zoic Studios

    May 2014 - October 2014
    Vancouver, Canada

    Matte Painting and Concept for:
    The 100
    Once Upon A Time
    Off The Island
    Night At The Museum: Secret of the Tomb

  • Matte Painter

    MPC

    May 2013 - March 2014
    Vancouver, Canada

    Matte Painting & Environment for:
    300: Rise of an Empire
    Maleficent
    The Amazing Spider-Man 2
    Jersey Boys

  • Matte Painter / Concept Artist

    Independent Contractor

    November 2005 - December 2013
    New Zealand / Australia
  • Matte Painter

    Rising Sun Pictures

    January 2013 - May 2013
    Adelaide, Australia


    I, Frankenstein [2014]
    Hopscotch Features / Lakeshore Entertainment
    dir. Stuart Beattie

    The Wolverine [2013]
    Marvel Enterprises / 20th Century Fox
    dir. James Mangold

    The Great Gatsby [2013]
    Warner Bros Pictures
    dir. Baz Luhrmann

    The Incredible Burt Wonderstone [2013]
    New Line Cinema
    dir. Don Scardino

  • Matte Painter / Environment Artist

    National Geographic

    September 2012 - December 2012

    Outsourced artist on National Geographic Channel's DVD series.

  • Digital Matte Painter

    Pacific Renaissance Spartacus / Starz Entertainment LLC

    October 2011 - December 2012
    Auckland, New Zealand


    Spartacus: War of the Damned [2013]
    Spartacus: Vengeance [2012]

  • Environment Matte Painter

    Block 2 Pictures

    March 2012 - November 2012
    Hong Kong, China


    The Grandmasters - release date December 2012
    Distribution company: The Weinstein Company

    Tasks as an outsourced artist:
    Background matte painting for compositing.
    Texture Painting.
    Digital Environment.
    Set Extension.

  • Matte Painter / Environment Artist

    Menthor Skillz

    January 2012 - April 2012

    D-Dopa: Le Film (French Short Film)
    Look Development
    Environment & Matte Painting
    Set Extension

  • Matte Painter

    Global Star Productions

    December 2011 - April 2012
    Hong Kong, China


    The Monkey King [Da Nao Tian Gong] - release date July 2012

    Worked as an outsourced artist.
    Creating background environment/matte paintings and set extension for compositors.

  • Matte Painter | Nuke Compositor

    Albedo VFX

    January 2011 - July 2011
    auckland, new zealand


    Commercial Music Videos
    Starboy.tv Mini Series
    The Almighty Johnsons (Season 2)
    What Really Happened: Votes for Women (Short feature)

    Look Development, Matte Painting, Compositing, Rotoscoping.

  • Artist

    Fujipacific Music Inc.

    2009 - 2011
  • Artist

    EMI Music International

    2006 - 2011
  • Special Effects Make Up Artist

    CreatioNZ

    2005 - 2011
  • Red Dragon Pictures

    February 2008 - June 2009
Education
  • Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Software Engineering & Computer Scie

    Massey University

    2015 - ?
  • Digital Painting Master Class facilitated by Dylan

    Gnomon School of Visual Effects

    2011 - ?
  • Visual Effects

    Media Design School

    November 2009 - ?
  • Computer Graphics & Digital Media (Advertising Creativity)

    Auckland University of Technology

    2008 - ?
  • Jazz Studies

    Christchurch Jazz School

    2006 - ?
  • Facilitated by Frank Reuter

    Nuke Specialized Training

    November 2011 - November 2011
  • BSc(Computer Science)/BA(Fine Arts)

    University of Canterbury

    2004 - 2008