Laurie Kindiak

Work History

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  3D Matte Painter

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  May 2022 - January 2024

  Vancouver, Canada Area - REMOTE

  Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire - 2024
  
  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - 2024
  
  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - 2023
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  Matte Painter

  Sony Pictures Animation

  November 2019 - July 2023

  2023 - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  2022 - Hotel Transylvania: Transformania
  2021 - Vivo

  

  

  
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  3D Matte Painter

  Atomic Cartoons

  September 2021 - May 2022

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - REMOTE

  My Little Pony: Make Your Mark
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  3D Matte Painter

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  November 2019 - August 2021

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - REMOTE

  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness - 2022
  
  Hotel Transylvania: Transformania - 2022
  
  Vivo - 2021
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  Senior VFX artist

  MPC

  December 2017 - March 2019

  Vancouver, Canada
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  3D Environment TD / Digital Matte Painter

  MPC

  November 2016 - December 2018

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  FILMS
  2019 - Pokémon - Detective Pikachu (Digital matte painter)
  Matte painting
  
  2018 - The New Mutants (2019) (Digital matte painter)
  Matte painting / set extension.
  
  2018 - Aquaman (Digital matte painter / Environment TD)
  Matte painting / set extension
  
  2018 - A Wrinkle In Time (2018) (3D modeler)
  Generalist - Zbrush sculpting of cave, some matte painting
  
  2017 - Justice League (2017) (Digital matte painter / Environment TD)
  Generalist - Hillside church model, nuclear power plant model/texture. Also some matte painting/set extension.
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  Digital Matte Painter - 3D Environments

  Encore VFX

  April 2016 - November 2016

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  FILMS
  
  TV (Netflix)
  2016 - Lemony Snicket: "A Series of Unfortunate Events" - Episodes 3 & 4 (Generalist / TD / Matte Painter)
  
  2016 - Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (Digital matte painter / Environment TD)
  Background painting and set extensions.
  
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  3D Environment TD / Digital Matte Painter

  MPC

  August 2014 - April 2016

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  FILMS
  2016 - Suicide Squad (3D Environment Artist/TD)
  Modeling for building set extension.
  2015 - The Finest Hours (3D Environment Artist/TD, Matte Painter)
  All ship interior corridor shots - Modeled corridor set extension, (Photoscan, Maya-final), and textured in Mari. Also various DMP backgrounds, skies, and CG set integrations in Nuke.
  2014 - American Sniper (3D Environment Artist/TD, Matte Painter)
  Helped create models/textures and modify existing buildings in recreation of Bagdad, Iraq pre-American war. Also ensured correct Nuke script setup for DMP, and contributed to 2 matte paintings for several of the shots.

  

  
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  Senior Environment TD

  MPC

  August 2014 - July 2015
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  CG Generalist / Layout Artist

  Prime Focus World

  April 2014 - July 2014

  Vancouver

  FILMS:
  2014 - The Interview
  Created CG layout for integration of 3D models into the shots (Kim Jong compound).
  2014 - The Expendables 3
  CG Layout/simple animation for integration of 3D models, helicopter animation (train sequence).

  

  
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  PT Maya Instructor

  Vancouver Institute of Media Arts (VanArts)

  May 2013 - June 2014

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Teaching P/T Intro to Maya
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  3D Environment TD

  MPC

  October 2013 - February 2014

  Vancouver

  FILMS:
  2014 - Godzilla
  Created multiple building and destruction geometry for a large number of shots, as well as ensuring correct Nuke script setup, z-depth alignments, and DMP projection output, using both Foundry and proprietary MPC tools.
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  Game Art Mentor

  Vancouver Film School

  December 2011 - October 2013

  Vancouver, BC

  Mentoring game students for their final projects to create industry standard game art.

• Senior 3D Environment Artist

  PopCap Games (EA) Yaletown Studio closure April 2013)

  June 2012 - April 2013

  Vancouver, BC

  HIDDEN AGENDA (for Facebook) - Senior 3D Environment Artist - World map design, setting look and feel, building structures, structure breakdown and compilation for depth sorting.
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  Senior Environment Artist

  Radical Entertainment

  October 2010 - October 2011

  Vancouver, BC

  Prototype 2 - Senior 3D Environment Artist - All world interiors
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  Senior World Artist - Outsourcing management

  Disney Interactive (Propaganda Games)

  October 2009 - September 2010

  Vancouver, BC

  TRON (Jan.2010-Sept.2010) - Senior Outsourcing Artist
  Unreleased IP based on the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (Oct.2009-Dec.2009) - Senior Outsourcing Artist
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  Senior World Artist

  United Front Games

  April 2009 - September 2009

  Vancouver, BC

  MOD Nation Racing - Senior World Builder
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  Senior Environment Artist

  Radical Entertainment

  February 2005 - August 2008

  Vancouver, BC

  
  Scarface2 (Unreleased) - Senior environment artist (interiors) - Assisted in organizing pipeline needs for the artists
  
  Crash of the Titans - Environment modeling
  
  Scarface - The World is Yours (PSX2 / Xbox) - Senior environment artist for both interiors and exteriors, both models & textures.
  
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  Maya/Viz Instructor

  The Art Institutes International Minnesota

  January 2005 - December 2005

  Vancouver, BC

  Introduction to Maya and Autodesk Viz for the Interior Design students

• Sabbatical / Volunteering

  Southeast Asia (Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia)

  April 2004 - August 2004

  Southeast Asia

  April-May:
  Worked as a divemaster / guide off of Koh Lanta, Thailand.
  May-June:
  Project Coordinator (Volunteer) at International Education Center of Myanmar (IECM - BURMA)
  Duties included creating advertising media for the school (print), planning and co-ordination of website, setting up international employment ads and interviewing for teachers and local staff, educational material & furniture selection, and assistance with curriculum.

• 3D World Artist

  EA Black Box

  April 2002 - March 2004

  Vancouver, BC

  NFS Underground (PSX2 / Xbox) - Environment artist, including layout, models, textures and lighting (3DS Max) Assisted junior artists with integration into the work pipeline
  Def Jam: Vendetta (PSX 2) - Small role in environment modeling, lighting, texturing
  NHL Hitz 20-03 (PSX 2 / Xbox) - Locker room player equipment, modeling and textures

• Sabbatical

  Australia / New Zealand

  October 2001 - February 2002
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  Senior Artist

  Barking Dog Studios

  January 2000 - October 2001

  Vancouver, BC

  Global Ops (PC) - Skybox models and background environment textures; Environment modeling, mapping and textures
  Transworld Skate (Unreleased) - Defined the technical process and tools used in the creation of the game. Assisted junior artists with new tools and software as well as production work on the game itself. Created high and low poly environments for the XBOX and PC platforms, using primarily Maya 3.0
  Homeworld-Cataclysm (PC) - Texture mapping of some of the ship models

• Sabbatical

  Peru / Bolivia / Ecuador

  May 1999 - November 1999

  Peru / Bolivia / Ecuador
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  3D Track Artist

  Electronic Arts

  November 1998 - April 1999

  Burnaby, BC

  Need For Speed-High Stakes (PSX) - Environment artist, including modeling, mapping and textures
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  3D Artist

  Electronic Arts

  October 1996 - October 1998

  Environments, characters, 2D game interface