Irena Smitakova

Irena Smitakova

Environment Generalist (Matte Painting & Environment)

Lead 3d digital matte painter / Mid-level Environment Generalist / 7 yrs

London, United Kingdom

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Lead Digital Matte Painter

Shogun (2024)

Digital Matte Painter

One Piece (2023)

Digital Matte Painter

The Flash (2023)

Environment TD

The Little Mermaid (2023)

Senior Digital Matte Painter, Environment Artist

Andor (2022)

digital matte painter

Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)

Digital Matte Painter

Intergalactic (2021)

Junior Compositor And Matte Painter

Chuck Steel - Night of the Trampires (2021)

3D Digital Matte Painter

The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021)

Digital Matte Painter

Cursed (2020)

Digital Matte Painter

Artemis Fowl (2020)

Digital Matte Painter

Call of the Wild (2020)

Digital Matte Painter

Noelle (2019)

Good Omens (2019)

Dark Time (2019)

Digital Matte Painter

The Lion King (2019)

Digital Matte Painter

Origin (2018)

Digital Matte Painter

Thunderbirds Are Go! (2016)

Colourist (2017) / Compositor (2017) / Roto Artist (2017)

Red X Flags (2016)

Passionate and self-driven Digital Matte Painter, Environment Generalist and Concept Artist working for film and TV, with Graphic Design and Photography background.

As my side hustle I build educational content, tutorials and mentorship programs for enthusiastic artists wanting to break into the industry. For more, follow our Alpha Brush Academy gumroad site

https://gumroad.com/alphabrush
Work History

  • Matte Painting & Environment Course Instructor

    Think Tank Training Centre

    April 2023 - Present
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Remote

  • Freelance Digital Matte Painter & Environment Concept Artist

    Irena Smitakova

    January 2020 - Present
    United Kingdom

    Skills: Matte Painting · Concept Art · Ilustration

  • Lead Environment Artist ( ENV & DMP)

    Goodbye Kansas Studios

    June 2022 - June 2026
    Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

  • Senior Digital Matte Painter

    ScanlineVFX

    November 2021 - June 2022
    London, England, United Kingdom

  • Environment TD

    Framestore

    March 2021 - November 2021
    London, United Kingdom

  • Background Matte Artist

    red knuckles

    January 2021 - February 2021
    London, England, United Kingdom

    Stylized background paintings Skills: Matte Painting · Adobe Photoshop · Maya · Compositing · Concept Art

  • Digital Matte Painter and Environment Generalist

    Milk Visual Effects

    October 2019 - October 2020
    London, United Kingdom

  • digital matte painter

    MPC

    April 2019 - September 2019
    Montreal, Canada

  • 3D Digital Matte Painter

    MPC

    October 2018 - March 2019
    London, United Kingdom

    The Lion King (2019)

  • Digital Matte Painter

    Milk Visual Effects

    June 2018 - October 2018
    London, United Kingdom

  • Digital Matte Painter / Concept Artist

    ANIMORTAL STUDIO LIMITED

    May 2018 - May 2018
    Bridgend, Bridgend, United Kingdom

    Promotional studio work for exhibition at Annecy Festival, Paris

  • Compositor

    Primetime

    January 2018 - February 2018
    Prague, Czech Republic

  • Junior Compositor and Junior Matte Painter

    ANIMORTAL STUDIO LIMITED

    July 2017 - October 2017
    Bridgend, United Kingdom

  • Graphic Designer / VFX artist

    Freelance

    March 2015 - August 2015
    Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

    Logo design, web design, posters, photo retouching and manipulations
    Promotional videos for clients - media school in Prague

    Freelance Skills: Adobe Photoshop

  • Director and Video Editor

    Breivang videregående skole

    September 2012 - October 2012
    Tromsø a okolí, Norsko

    Director, camera and editor

    Documentary that was part of International exchange program. Responsibility for pipeline, meetings, team work, camera and post-production as editing and After Effects title sequence.
    Documentary was presented in Tromsø cinema and hosted by director of Norwergian Film Festival

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Education

  • BA Visual Effects and Motion Graphics

    University of South Wales

    September 2015 - June 2019

  • A level Photography and Media

    Secondary Art School of Applied Arts

    January 2009 - January 2013