Stein Løtveit

Stein Løtveit

Lead animator at MPC, Montreal

Lead Animator / 20 yrs

Montréal, Canada

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Senior Animator

The Magician's Elephant (2023)

Animator

DC Super Pets (2022)

Senior Animator

Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021)

Senior Animator

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

Character Animator

Love, Death & Robots (2019)

Animator

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Digital Artist

Meg (2018)

Senior Animator

Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)

Senior Animator

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

Senior Animator

Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)

Gravity (2016)

Lead Animator

Terminator: Genisys (2015)

Senior Animator

Cinderella (2015)

The LEGO Movie (2014)

The LEGO Movie (2014)

Animator

Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (2013)

Happy Feet Two (2011)

Thor (2011)

Senior Animator

Alice Through the Looking Glass (2010)

Animator (high-mid)

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)

Animator (high-mid)

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)

Animator (high-mid)

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)

Animator (high-mid)

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)

Planet 51 (2009)

Dragon Hunters (2008)

Layout Artist

Jorden kalder (2004)

Animator

Walking With Dinosaurs (2000)

Proffessional Goal:
To animate on film-projects that offer greater challenges,
to be a leader or cornerstone within the team and help
the projects advance efficiently while remaining the
highest quality possible.
Work History

  • Lead Animator

    MPC

    September 2014 - Present

    Started as senior Animator, moved up to lead in October 2014

  • Senior Animator

    MPC

    January 2014 - September 2014
    Montreal, Canada Area

  • Senior Animator

    Animal Logic

    January 2013 - January 2014

    On "Lego - The piece of resistance"

  • Animator

    Animal Logic

    May 2012 - Present

    Animator on the BBC feature-film "walking with Dinosaurs"

  • Senior Animator

    Framestore

    January 2012 - April 2012

    Doing realistic and complex character-animation for the featurefilm Gravity.
    In addition to doing the animation, I also made proxy/lowres-rigs of the characters in the scene. These rigs,although outside of the pipeline, allowed our team to work in real-time within Maya. I also made a series of custom mel-scripts that transferred the animation we made with these rigs back into the framestore-pipeline.

  • Senior Animator

    Dr. D Studios

    February 2011 - November 2011

    Senior Animator on Happy Feet 2

    Currently employed as Senior Animator on Happy Feet 2.
    I am responsible for animating several shots with the
    main characters. Also working as the point-man for
    communication between rigging- and animationdepartment
    on one specific creature. Providing
    ideas/solutions that gets implemented and also
    responsible for testing them with realistic animation.

  • Senior Animator

    Fuel VFX

    September 2010 - December 2010

    Working mostly on sequences for the feature-film Thor . I worked on layout and animation for all the Bifrost-shots that FuelVFX provided.

  • Animator (high-mid)

    Animal Logic

    November 2009 - August 2010

    Responsible for animating several shots with the main
    characters while working closely with lead and animationdirector
    on the feature LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS.

  • Animation Artist

    Ilion Animation Studios

    November 2007 - April 2009

    Responsible for animating several shots with the main
    characters and working closely with lead and director on
    the feature PLANET51.

  • Owner

    Fernando Films

    January 2005 - January 2009

    Owner of Fernando Films, a company that provided services within animation.

  • Animator

    Mac Guff

    October 2006 - April 2007

    ANIMATOR for MacGuff – DragonHunters 2006-2007
    Responsible for animating several shots with the main
    characters and working closely with supervisor and
    director on the feature DRAGON HUNTERS.

  • Animator

    Digital Banana

    2007 - 2007

    Provided strong solutions in rigging and animations on
    projects with very limited budget. Several commercials for
    RAYMAN RAVING RABBIDS 2

  • Animator

    Cube Creative

    August 2006 - October 2006

    Animating two commercials for Cube
    "Moodz" and "Omo"

  • Animator/Co Director

    Kool Productions

    September 2006 - September 2006

    Responsible for direction, art-direction and teamassembly.
    Working closely with client and team to ensure
    a good product on limited budget.

  • Animator

    MadTeam

    September 2005 - April 2006

    Animating on 4 Music Videos for Madteam

  • Animator

    Qvisten Animation

    July 2005 - January 2006

    Animating 3 commercials for Qvisten

  • Animator

    Sparx Animation Studios

    2006 - 2006

    Animating on pilot for a television series.

  • Graphic Artist

    Artplant

    August 2004 - July 2005

    Illustrator/Level Designer for various children games

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Education

  • The Animation Workshop

    2004 - 2004

  • Høgskulen i Volda

    2002 - 2004

  • The Animation Workshop

    2003 - 2003

  • Kunst & Design College

    2001 - 2002