Creating beautiful art to showcase FPL's exciting mobile and VR tech
Lead 3D Artist
Google
April 2022 - March 2023
San Francisco Bay Area · Remote
Staff Visual Designer leading the creation of AI driven 3d characters and environments
Senior Visual Designer
Google
September 2014 - August 2015
San Francisco · On-site
Art Direction, Concept design, Outsource management, pipeline development and UX design @ Niantic labs
Tippet Studios, Atomic Fiction & The Mill
Freelance (Self employed)
September 2013 - September 2014
Los Angeles and San Francisco
Environment artist/Matte painter/Concept Artist for Commercials, Film and Television work.
Projects:
- Call of Duty: Ghosts (Mill studios)
- Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (Atomic Fiction)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Tippett studios and Atomic Fiction)
Senior Matte painter/Environment artist/concept artist
Atomic Fiction
February 2014 - June 2014
san francisco
Provided 2d and 2.5d matte paintings and concept art for the Fox television show 'Cosmos' And a full CG snowy environment for the feature film "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
Digital Environment Artist
Tippett Studio
April 2014 - May 2014
Berkeley, California, United States
Created a subterranean sewer environment for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
Digital Matte Painting supervisor
Method Studios
February 2013 - September 2013
Santa Monica
Supervised staff & freelance matte painters on commercial and film projects. Introduced a Nuke and Maya/Vray pipeline.
Senior Digital Matte Artist
Atomic Fiction
December 2012 - February 2013
San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Matte painter on 'Star Trek into Darkness'
Senior/Lead Digital Matte artist
Industrial Light & Magic
October 2007 - October 2012
San Francisco Bay Area · On-site
Senior/Lead Digital Matte artist at ILM, past projects include 'Indiana Jones and the Crystal skull', Star Tours 2.0, 'Transformers2, Digital environments for 'Ironman2', Transformers3, Super 8, Redtails, Cowboys and Aliens, Redtails, Battleship, GiJoe Retribution and Pacific Rim.
Digital Matte Artist
Industrial Light & Magic
October 2007 - October 2012
San Francisco
Lead Matte Painter
Matte World Digital
July 2007 - October 2007
Novato, CA
Art Direction, concept design and Lead Matte painter on the Academy award winning 'The Golden Compass'
Senior Matte Painter
Digital Domain
October 2006 - June 2007
Venice Beach, California · On-site
Lead Matte Painter 'Pirates of the Caribbean 3' Lead Matte painter for 'My Super Ex Girlfriend'.
Lead Matte Painter and 3d Generalist
Radium
September 2003 - October 2006
Santa Monica, California, United States · On-site
Lead Matte Artist and 3d Generalist for Commercials and Film
Texture Artist
Digital Domain
April 2003 - September 2003
Los Angeles County, California, United States · On
Texture Painter for 'Day after Tomorrow'
3d Generalist and Character animator
3D Generalist
August 1996 - August 2003
Marina Del Rey, California
CG generalist and Character animator for television and Film visual effects. Worked at VIFX and Modern video film
Art Director
Realtime Associates
August 1992 - August 1994
Los Angeles, California, United States · On-site
Art Director, Environment artist and Lead animator
2D Animator
Baer Animation
June 1991 - June 1992
Los Angeles, California, United States · On-site
Character Animator for Tom and Jerry: The Movie.
2D Animator
Freelance Animation
November 1990 - June 1991
Auckland, New Zealand · On-site
Character Animator for 2 seasons of Tiny Toon Adventures, Goof Troop, Darkwing Duck and Duck Tales
