Mika Margolles

Mika Margolles

https://mmargolles.wordpress.com/

Mid-level Texture Artist / 12 yrs

Vancouver, Canada

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Visual Effects Artist

Luck (2022)

Visual Effects Artist

DC Super Pets (2022)

Visual

blush (2021)

Visual Effects Artist

Untitled My Little Pony Movie (2021)

Visual Effects Artist

Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021)

Visual Effects Artist

Despicable Me 3 (2017)

Texture Painter, Look Development and Li

Escape Plan (2017)

Texture Artist

Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

Visual Effects Artist

The Stinky & Dirty Show (2015)

Blackhat (2015)

The Last Ship (2014)

Visual Effects Artist

Warsaw '44 (2014)

Into the Storm (2014)

Texture Artist

Houdini (2014)

Texture Painter, Look Development and Li

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

Texture Painter, Look Development and Li

Machete Kills (2013)

Visual Effects Artist

Alice Through the Looking Glass (2010)

Miasto 44

2016 reel
Old Piano
I am a 3D texture and Look Development artist. My specialties include:
- creating photo-real textures and maps developed from scanned reference, projections, photographs, procedural textures
- hand painted textures
- developing sophisticated shaders for look development of a variety of materials
- hard surface modeling
- UV mapping
- lighting
- creating HDR images
Work History

  • Senior Surfacing Artist

    Boulder Media

    February 2018 - June 2019

  • Lead Texture Artist

    Brown bag films

    October 2016 - February 2018
    Dublin, Ireland

  • Surfacing Artist

    Illumination Mac Guff

    May 2016 - October 2016
    Paris Area, France

    Despicable Me 3 Sets and Props Surfacing

  • Texture Artist

    Brown bag films

    May 2015 - March 2016
    Dublin, Ireland

  • Texture Artist

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    August 2014 - May 2015
    Vancouver, Canada

  • Texture Artist

    Universal Production Partners

    September 2013 - June 2014
    Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

    FILM WORK

    -Blackhat (2015)
    -Miasto 44 (2014)

    TV WORK
    -Houdini (2014)
    -Last Ship (2014)

  • Texture Painter, Look Development and Lighting Artist

    Hydraulx

    August 2012 - August 2013
    Vancouver, Canada Area

    FILM WORK

    -Into The Storm (2014)
    -Escape Plan (2013)
    -Machete Kills (2013)
    -The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
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Education

  • Think Tank Training Center

    2011 - 2012

  • Ateneo de Manila University

    2005 - 2009