Mathew Thomas
Senior Lighting TD / Mid-level Digital Compositor / 18 yrs
Los Angeles, CA
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Specializing in Lighting and Compositing, using Katana, After Effects & Nuke, with additional technical, scripting, and artistic experience in VR 360 Compositing and Pipeline.
Self motivated, considered a closer, with experience leading teams but who can also either work in teams or independently to get even the most challenging of shots in front of the client, notes addressed, on time, and for final approval.
Work History
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Lighting Technical Director
Atomic Fiction
January 2015 - April 2015
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Technical Director
Sony Pictures Imageworks
May 2007 - July 2013Technical Director
Smurfs 2 - Lighting, Compositing (2013)
OZ, The Great & Powerful - Lighting (2013)
Amazing Spider Man - Lighting, Compositing, Stereo Team Lead, Stereo Plate Alignment Pipeline Lead(2012)
Green Lantern - Lighting, Compositing, & Stereoscopic-3D (2011)
Green Hornet - Stereoscopic-3D Conversion (2011)
Zookeeper - Lighting & Compositing (2011)
Zookeeper - Character Pipeline Support (2011)
Alice in Wonderland - Lighting, Stereoscopic-3D (2010)
Technical Director, Stereoscopic-3D Lighting & Comp Team Lead
Amazing Spide
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Lead Production Services Technician
Sony Pictures Imageworks
February 2003 - May 2007*Prioritized tasks and managed the duties of the PST team members on a production
*Interfaced with production management to ensure that all current and anticipated technical needs of the shows are being met.
*Oversaw the maintenance of existing and new show specific scripts/tools that serviced the needs of production.
*Continued the training of newly hired Production Service Technicians and facilitated their growth within the team.
Education
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Gnomon School of Visual Effects and Animation
2001 - 2002 -
New York University
1992 - 1997 -
Stevens Institute of Technology
1992 - 1997 -
Bronx High School of Science
1988 - 1992