Wendell And Wild - An Animated Feature Film for Netflix Pro
October 2019 - Present
Portland, Oregon, United States
Digital Paint Lead
Laika
December 2010 - April 2019
I am currently supervising a team of 13 visual effects artists responsible for
extensive stereo paint work on Laika's next feature The Boxtrolls. We are in the final push and expect to wrap in the spring of this year. In a majority of cases my team is taking shots from start directly to final and delivering stereo comps for Director approval. Tasks included character face reconstruction, wire and rig removal, plate repair, stereo correction and 2D composites. All work was done in stereo using Silhouette, Nuke and The Foundry's Ocula toolset as well as c
Paint Lead
LAIKA, Inc
December 2010 - June 2015
Laika
July 2013 - August 2014
Compositor
ImageMovers
July 2010 - November 2010
San Francisco Bay Area
Digital Paint Supervisor
Slash-FX
April 2010 - June 2010
San Francisco Bay Area
Served as the paint and roto supervisor for the Robert Redford film The Conspirator.
Compositor
Industrial Light & Magic
January 2010 - March 2010
San Francisco Bay Area
I was a Digital Compositor on Iron Man 2 at ILM.
Compositor
ImageMovers
2009 - 2009
Digital Paint Artist
Industrial Light & Magic
2000 - 2009
Digital Artist
Industrial Light & Magic
1999 - 2009
Compositor
Evil Eye Pictures
2006 - 2008
Digital Artist
Evil Eye Pictures
2006 - 2008
Digital Artist
ESC
2002 - 2005
Paint/Roto Supervisor
ESC Entertainment
2002 - 2005
Digital Image Librarian
Lucasfilm
1998 - 1999
Media Arts Program Assistant
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
September 1994 - May 1997
San Francisco Bay Area
• Designed and created large-scale multi-media installations for the Media Arts curatorial program at
SFMOMA.
• Created video and Digital graphic documentation for the creation and preservation of all Media Arts
artworks.
• Researched and acquired appropriate electronic components including the creation of videotapes,
laser discs, audio tracks, computer programs and all elements of the physical reconstruction of each
exhibited artwork.
• Coordinated the efforts of the Installation, Registration and Conservation departments in order to
achieve the presentation of artwork in an appropriate archival manner at SFMOMA and at outside
borrower institutions.
• Created and maintained departmental and museum-wide collection databases in both Filemaker Pro
and EmBark. Responsible for the data entry of all still, Quicktime video and Quicktime VR images, and
all documentation.
• Responsible for providing photographic documentation of media artworks, including still film and
video images, for publication and educational purposes.
• Maintained a vast inventory of professional audio-visual and multimedia equipment. Created and
maintained databases in both Excel and Filemaker to track the communications, shipping and billing