Peter Rubin

Work History

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  Senior Illustrator

  Sony Pictures Entertainment

  February 2015 - Present

  Burbank, CA

  Character Concepts, Feature Film
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  Senior Illustrator - Untitled Project

  Warner Bros. Pictures

  August 2014 - October 2015

  Burbank, CA

  Creature and Environment Concepts
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  Visualization Consultant

  JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

  August 2014 - February 2015

  Helping to visualize future space missions!
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  3D Designer - The Jungle Book

  Walt Disney Pictures

  March 2014 - August 2014

  Environment and Character Design, primarily using ZBrush, modo and Photoshop.
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  Senior Illustrator/3D Designer - Man of Steel

  Warner Bros. Pictures

  January 2011 - October 2011

  Working with Production Designer Alex McDowell on Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel" as a 3D conceptual designer.

• Senior Art Director - The Plastiki Project

  Iron Rooster Studios

  July 2009 - January 2011

  Designed and produced 35 animated visualization sequences for The Plastiki - the IRL adventure led by David DeRothschild, in his role as a National Geographic Explorer and founder of Adventure Ecology (now Myoo), in which David and his crew engineered and then sailed a catamaran made entirely of recycled or recyclable materials all the way from San Francisco to Sydney.
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  Senior Illustrator - G-Force and Surrogates

  Walt Disney Pictures

  2007 - 2009
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  Senior Art Director - The Godfather

  Electronic Arts

  November 2003 - February 2006

  Directed more than fifty complex cut-scenes for "The Godfather" video game, from scripts and storyboards to mo-cap and final animation.
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  Art Director - Space Cowboys, Gangs of New York, Terminator

  Industrial Light & Magic

  January 1999 - June 2003

  Visual effects design, art direction and pre-visualization, primarily for motion pictures. Between projects, assisted other art directors or producers with concept art.
  
  Projects as art director: Space Cowboys, Time Machine, Gangs of New York, ET (20th anniversary edition, uncredited), Peter Pan (bid phase), K19: The Widowmaker, Terminator 3
  
  Projects as concept artist: AI: Artificial Intelligence, Harry Potter, The Hulk, Star Wars: Episode II, Peter Pan

  

  

  

• Art Director/President

  Production Arts Digital Ltd.

  January 1995 - January 1999

  Art direction and visual effects design, previsualization and storyboards for major motion pictures.
  
  Projects: Lost in Space, Event Horizon, Independence Day, Hard Rain, Soldier
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  Freelance Artist

  Self-employed

  November 1989 - 1995

  Storyboards and concept art for motion pictures and television commercials. Developed original workflow techniques for using digital media in motion picture pre-production, particularly storyboards, which was previously extremely rare.
  
  Project highlights: Stargate (the movie), Cliffhanger, Universal Soldier, Multiplicity