Thomas Johnson

Work History

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  Senior Matte Painter

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  January 2024 - March 2025

  Vancouver, Canada

  
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  Senior matte painter

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  July 2021 - November 2023

  Vancouver

  
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  Matte Painter

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  December 2014 - June 2021

  

  

  

  

  
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  Concept Artist

  Electronic Arts

  September 2014 - November 2014

  Burnaby, Canada
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  Matte Painter

  CoSA VFX

  April 2014 - May 2014

  Gotham (tv movie)

• Matte Painter

  Arctic Productions Ltd. "Arctic Air Season 3" on CBC

  February 2014 - March 2014

  Created Matte Paintings for the season finale of the CBC show Arctic Air.
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  teacher

  Vancouver Institute of Media Arts

  2007 - December 2013

  Instructed the following classes:
   
  Art Foundations – Prepared and taught a 10-week hands-on course for VFX students.  08/2013-11/2013
  Digital Concept Art - Prepared and taught a 10-week course on creating concept art for the entertainment industry using digital and traditional tools. 06/2010-03/2012.   06/2013-09/2013
  Introduction to Matte Painting - Prepared and taught a 10-week hands-on course on the creation of backgrounds for feature films and video games. 09/2007-03/2008
   
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  Concept Artist

  Electronic Arts

  July 2013 - September 2013

  Created concept art for a new game IP.

• Art Director

  Dhruva Interactive

  July 2012 - January 2013

  Helping with creative direction as well as training concept art and art teams at Dhruva Interactive.

• freelancing with Ubisoft

  Tom Johnson Studios

  March 2013 - 2013

  Created card designs for Duel of Champions -Might and Magic card game.

• Concept Art and Matte Painting

  Tom Johnson Studios

  April 2010 - April 2012

  April 2011 - April 2012
  United Front Games - Little Big Planet Karting
  April - May 2011
  Company - Image Engine
  Matte Paintings for The Thing (2011)
  June 2011
  Company - Method Studios Vancouver
  Concept Art for Movie "J Edgar"
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  Senior Concept Artist

  Electronic Arts

  2002 - June 2010

  Last project was doing production design for the game Skate 3. Past projects include:
  SSX 3, Marvel, Need for Speed Underground 1 & 2, Def Jam Vandetta,
  Fight Night 3, FIFA 06 & 07, FIFA Street 1 & 2, Skate 1 & 2 as well as new IP and other internal projects.
  Work entailed design research, rough concepts sketches to finished renderings, Creating game play ideas and how they work and fit into environments, vehicle and character design. Preparing design direction layouts for outsourcers. Working closely with game designers and producers is also a major part of my work. Also have four years of experience designing open world environments.

  

  
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  concept artist

  Ubisoft

  2010 - 2010
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  Concept artist

  Square USA

  November 1996 - November 2001

  worked on designs for Final Fantasy film and the Animatrix Flight of Osiris, as well as texture and Matte painting work.
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  Concept and Digital Artist

  Digital Domain

  1995 - 1997

  Worked as a concept artist for thier video game startup as well as digital art for the film The Fifth Element, doing matte painting, texture , modeling

  

• Concept Artist

  Pulse Entertainment

  1996 - 1996

• Digital Artist

  Simex Digital

  1995 - 1995

  Worked as a digital artist creating models, textures, and lighting for the Omnimax ride film Odessey to Mars
  for a worlds fair in Kobe Japan.
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  Digital Artist

  Warner Bros. Pictures

  1994 - 1994

  Created models and textures for Gotham City on film Batman Forever