Simone De Salvatore

Simone De Salvatore

Senior Matte Painter / Senior Concept Artist / 13 yrs

Italy

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Mattepainting Artist

Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

Matte Painter

Atlantic Crossing (2021)

Digital Matte Painter

Babylon Berlin (2018)

Digital Matte Painter

Heidi (2005)

Matte Painter

An Officer and a Spy (2019)

Matte Painter

Vivarium (2020)

Digital Matte Painter

Captain Marvel (2019)

Matte Painter

Lost in Space (2018)

Visual Effects

Game of Thrones (2011)

Digital Matte Painter

Gotthard (2016)

Digital Matte Painter

Renegades (2018)

Digital Matte Painter

The fate of the furious (2017)

Concept Artist

Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

Senior Matte Painter

Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

Matte Painter/Concept Artist

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Matte Painter

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

Matte Painter

Pompeii (2014)

Matte Painter

Snowpiercer (2014)

Matte Painter

Cloud Atlas (2012)

Matte Painting Artist

Pettersson und Findus 2 - Das schönste Weihnachten überhaupt (2016)

Matte Painting Artist

Hanni & Nanni 3 (2013)

Matte Painting Artist

Generation War (2014)

Mattepainting

Famous Five (2012)

Mattepainting

Zettl (2012)

Concept Artist

Echoes (2015)

Narrative spaces, places that don't need words to tell a story, they require just a glimpse and suddenly you're in. With this goal in mind, Simo started dreaming of a life path where he could create different worlds to inhabit every day, and he wanted to do that in films. After graduating in Cinema and Media Engineering in Italy, he learned on his own how to draw and paint. With a decent portfolio in his hands he then won a Master and with a travelling scholarship he moved to Hollywood. What he thought was the final destination instead became the first step - he attended the Gnomon School of Visual Effects and kept enriching his collection of works by specializing in Matte Painting, the art behind those worlds and landscapes that we see in films which makes us wonder whether we're being fooled by reality or an artist's brush. Two years of hard work and self-teaching landed him his first job as a Matte Painter in the motion picture industry, so he left California and moved to Munich. He fell in love with Europe again and decided to stay, working also in Hamburg, Stuttgart, London and Berlin. With his surprise, Hollywood kept presenting itself in the years that followed, giving him the opportunities of a lifetime full of creative dreams. His works can be found in The Grand Budapest Hotel, which led to winning an Oscar for best Production Design in 2015, Game of Thrones, Cloud Atlas, Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings, Snowpiercer, Captain Marvel, Lost in Space and more. These days he's writing and illustrating his own series of fantasy novels.
Work History

  • Concept Artist

    red knuckles

    January 2020 - January 2020
    Munich

  • Matte Painter

    Benuts

    December 2019 - February 2020
    Munich

  • Matte Painter

    ARRI VFX

    October 2019 - November 2019

  • Matte Painter

    Benuts

    June 2019 - August 2019

    Matte Paintings for the film J'Accuse by Roman Polanski

  • Matte Painter

    Mackevision

    April 2019 - April 2019

  • Matte Painter

    Benuts

    February 2019 - March 2019

    Matte paintings for the project Vivarium

  • Matte Painter

    TRIXTER

    June 2018 - December 2018

  • digital matte painter

    Mackevision

    March 2017 - October 2017

  • digital matte painter

    RISE | Visual Effects Studios

    January 2017 - February 2017

  • set designer

    Blackspace

    October 2016 - December 2016

  • Matte Painter

    Fish Blowing Bubbles

    June 2016 - June 2016

  • Matte Painter

    Mackevision

    January 2016 - June 2016

  • Matte Painter

    ARRI VFX

    March 2016 - May 2016

  • Matte Painter

    RISE | Visual Effects Studios

    February 2016 - March 2016

  • Matte Painter

    INFECTED Postproduction GmbH

    September 2014 - January 2016

  • Sehsucht

    January 2015 - September 2015

  • Concept Designer

    The Marmalade

    July 2015 - July 2015

  • set designer

    Optix Digital

    March 2015 - April 2015

  • Senior Matte Painter

    MPC

    May 2014 - September 2014
    London

    Exodus

  • Matte Painter

    TRIXTER

    November 2013 - January 2014
    Munich, Germany

    Captain America: the Winter Soldier

  • Matte Painter

    ScanlineVFX

    September 2013 - November 2013
    Munich, Germany

    Pompeii
    Die Pilgerin

  • Matte Painter/Concept Designer

    Look Effects

    June 2013 - September 2013
    Stuttgart

    The Grand Budapest Hotel

  • Matte Painter

    ScanlineVFX

    May 2012 - January 2013
    Munich, Germany

    Cloud Atlas, Snowpiercer, Generation War

  • Matte Painter/Concept Designer

    TRIXTER

    February 2012 - May 2012
    Munich, Germany

  • Matte Painter

    ScanlineVFX

    September 2011 - November 2011
    Munich, Germany

  • 3D Artist

    Entity FX

    January 2010 - July 2010
    Greater Los Angeles Area

    Smallville
    Breaking Bad
    The good guys
    The vampire diaries

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Education

  • Digital Sets

    Gnomon School of Visual Effects

    June 2011 - September 2011

  • Maya

    Gnomon School of Visual Effects

    September 2009 - December 2009

  • Cinema and Media Engineering

    Polytechnic of Turin

    September 2005 - December 2008