Marty Kline

Work History

• Principal

  Illustration and Design

  November 2011 - January 2021

  Working from Home

  Working on HBO Event Parties, Themed Premiere party events, Prop and product design. Worked on Microsoft UI for the original Surface touch sensitive table-computer.

• Principal

  Illustration and Design

  November 1977 - December 2020

  At home and anywhere they sent me.

  Visual Effects Art Direction, Concept Illustration and Storyboarding for Games, Film, Television and Entertainment Media. Marty has worked directly with dozens of the best motion picture directors, television directors and production designers including Bob Zemeckis, Ridley Scott and John Woo. He has also worked as motion picture illustrator and story board artist on numerous films, and designed and supervised Theme Park installations in the US (including work at Disney’s Epcot Center) and Japan.
  Credits available on request.
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  Executive Art Director

  THQ

  February 2010 - March 2012

  As the Executive Art Director at THQ, Marty raised production values by coaching, growing and supporting art directors and game designers across seven studios. His impact was most notable on Homefront, Red Faction: Armageddon, Darksiders 2 and UFC Personal Trainer.

  
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  Humble Member

  Art Directors Guild

  November 1976 - November 2011

  A union illustrator from 1977 and a member of the Art Director’s Guild since 1992, Marty was a founding member of the Visual Effects Society and was on its original Board of Directors. Prior to merging the Illustrators Local 790 with the ADG, he was vice president of the Illustrators and Matte Artists union. He has lectured at the American Film Institute and at the Smithsonian. He holds undergraduate degrees from Otis Art Institute and Carnegie Institute of Technology and received a Masters degree in Materials Science from Columbia University.
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  Head of the Art Department and Concept Illustrator

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  October 2009 - December 2010

  Culver City, California

  Contact, Stuart Little, Cast Away, Polar Express, Beowulf, Spiderman,
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  Surface Art Director

  Microsoft Corp.

  February 2008 - November 2008

  As the Art Director on Surface, the first commercially available multi-touch computing platform, Kline played a pivotal role in defining the visual language for this new user interface.
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  Senior Visual Effects Art Director

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  April 1995 - November 2007

  Kline was Managing Art Director at Sony Pictures ImageWorks for over 12 years where he built the feature film visual effects art department from the ground up. Kline's team planned, designed and delivered ground breaking visual effects for films that included Beowulf, The Polar Express, Spider Man I and II, Stuart little and Contact. He was responsible for the management of the artwork pipeline from production artwork to final film imagery, as well as the production of concept art and storyboards to facilitate communication between Visual Effects Super