Darin Hilton

Darin Hilton

Supervisor Matte Painter

San Francisco, CA, United States

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Matte Painting Supervisor

Seventh Son (2015)

Matte Painting Supervisor

Into the Storm (2014)

Matte Painting Supervisor

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)

Senior Matte Artist

Pacific Rim (2013)

Senior Digital Matte Artist

G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)

Matte Painter

Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

DMP Supervisor

Thor: The Dark World (2013)

Digital Artist

Battleship (2012)

Digital Effects Artist

Red Tails (2012)

Digital Artist

Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

Digital Artist

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

Senior Digital Matte Artist

Super 8 (2011)

Senior Digital Matte Artist

Star Tours: The Adventures Continue (2011)

Environment

The Crossing (2010)

Digital Artist

Iron Man 2 (2010)

Digital Artist

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

Digital Artist

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Digital Matte Artist

The Golden Compass (2007)

Digital Matte Painter

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

Senior Matte Painter

The Nativity Story (2006)

Texture Painter

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

Digital Matte Painter

My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)

Matte Painter

Are We There Yet? (2005)

Texture Painter

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Animator

Queen of the Damned (2002)

Character Animator

Titan A.E. (2000)

Digital Effects Artist

Roswell (1999)

Character Animator

T-Rex: Back to the Cretacious (1998)

Digital Effects Artist

Charmed (1998)

Digital Effects Artist

Big Bad Beetleborgs (1996)

Animator

Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1993)

Digital Effects

Our Energy Freedom

Work History

  • Art Director, Fun Propulsion Labs@Google

    Google

    August 2015 - Present

    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

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Education

  • Diploma in Graphic Design in Graphic Design

    Auckland University of Technology

    1987 - 1990