Emil Degrey

Emil Degrey

Senior FX Artist / 29 yrs

Salt Lake City, UT, United States

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Visual Effects Artist

Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes (2014)

Work History
  • Head of Visual FX Department

    Avalanche | WB Games

    June 2016 - Present
    Greater Salt Lake City Area

    Oversee and coordinate Visual Effects for Warner Brothers Games at Avalanche.

  • Head of Visual Effects dept.

    Avalanche | WB Games

    July 2014 - May 2016
    Greater Salt Lake City Area

    Oversee and coordinate Visual Effects for the Disney Infinity video game.

  • Special Effects Lead

    Avalanche | WB Games

    August 2010 - July 2014
    Salt Lake City

    Oversee and coordinate Special Effects for the Disney Infinity video game.

  • Lead World Artist

    Avalanche | WB Games

    May 2006 - August 2010
    Greater Salt Lake City Area

    Worldbuilder. Designed and engineered environments and levels. Animation and textures as it pertained to environments.

  • Lead Artist

    Indie Built (Take 2 Interactive - SLC, UT)

    2003 - 2006

    Initially I was a Character artist on Amped 2. Then I moved over to Level Design and building for Amped 3. I then became a presentation artist, which included animation and live action film, which I wrote, co-directed and starred in for Amped 4.

  • Temp Character Artist

    Microsoft

    May 2002 - October 2002
    Salt Lake City

    Created accurate true to life 3D models of real professional snowboarders.

  • Senior Artist

    Viewpoint Datalabs

    October 1993 - February 2002
    Utah

    Create and texture 3D models for film, games, and medical reference.

  • Lead 3D Artist

    Viewpoint Datalabs/ Digital

    1993 - 2002
    Orem Utah

    Built 3D geometry for film, television, video games, and visualization. Including character art for Batman Returns, Species, Godzilla, and the Simpsons.

  • Contract artist

    Cairo Design

    June 1992 - June 1993

    I did illustration work on a contract basis.

Education
  • Mountain View High School

    1989 - 1991