Stein Løtveit

Work History

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  Lead Animator

  MPC

  September 2014 - Present

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

  MPC

  January 2014 - September 2014

  Montreal, Canada Area
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  Senior Animator

  Animal Logic

  January 2013 - January 2014

  On "Lego - The piece of resistance"

  
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  Animator

  Animal Logic

  May 2012 - Present

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

  
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.

  
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  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
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  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
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  Animator

  Qvisten Animation

  July 2005 - January 2006

  Animating 3 commercials for Qvisten
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  Animator

  Sparx Animation Studios

  2006 - 2006

  Animating on pilot for a television series.
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  Graphic Artist

  Artplant

  August 2004 - July 2005

  Illustrator/Level Designer for various children games