Matt McKenna

Matt McKenna

Mid-level Lighting Artist / 7 yrs

Vancouver, Canada

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Visual Effects Artist

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)

Visual Effects Artist

A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting (2020)

Digital Artist

Sonic The Hedgehog (2020)

Digital Artist

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)

Digital Artist

Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)

Digital Artist

A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

Digital Artist

Justice League (2017)

Work History
  • Lighting Artist & Support

    MPC

    March 2019 - December 2019
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    I split my time between lighting shots, and doing support work primarily for the lighting department, but also building new workflows across multiple departments.

  • lighting artist

    MPC

    May 2018 - March 2019
    Vancouver, Canada

    I worked at MPC for 3 years in 3 different positions: Wrangler, lighting support, and Lighting Artist.
    In lighting support, I Assisted artists with Optimization, testing, troubleshooting, and overall render/technical advice. As a Lighting Artist, I did per shot lighting work on Maleficent Mistress of Evil and Sonic The Hedgehog, and Sequence level and per shot work on Cats. Unfortunately, I am no linger employed at MPC due to its closure.

  • Production Operations Assistant

    MPC

    January 2017 - May 2018
    Vancouver, Canada Area

    Wrangling of the render farm, and data admin.

  • Private and commercial Maintenance

    Beaver Landscape

    August 2014 - October 2014

    Mowing lawns. Line trimming. leaf blowing. Driving a ride on mower. raking leaves. cleaning/weeding flower beds.

  • Admin

    BGC Engineering

    July 2013 - August 2013

    Scanning of over 5000 paper engineering documents. Digital organization and renaming of files. organized into OneNote

Education
  • Diploma in Modeling for Animation and Games

    The Art Institute of Vancouver

    September 2014 - September 2016
  • High school diploma in Blender 3d

    Delta Secondary School

    2009 - 2014