Joe Harkins Visual Effects Supervisor/Producer/Animation Director www.vimeopro.com/joeharkins/portfolio SELECT CREDITS DIRECTOR STUDI0/PRODUCTION “ZERO DAY” JOE HARKINS TRITON FILMS Short Film – Director/Writer Gabriel Napora “STEVE AOKI-SINGULARITY” GILLE KLABIN CNCNTRTE Short Film/Video - VFX Supervisor Maxwell Riesberg, Joshua D. Shadid “BEAUTIFUL CREATURES” RICHARD LAGRAVENESE ALCON ENTERTAINMENT/WB Visual Effects Supervisor Molly Smith, Erwin Stoff "DAVID GUETTA TURN ME ON VIDEO" SANJI SENAKA WONDROS MUSIC + VISION Animation Director + VFX Producer VIRGIN/EMI 2012 MTV Video Music Awards Nominee Best Visual Effects “HUGO” MARTIN SCORSESE PARAMOUNT PICTURES/GK FILMS CG Supervisor – Uncharted Territory “FOUNDATION” ROLAND EMMERICH COLUMBIA PICTURES CG Supervisor – Uncharted Territory 6 mos. development “BATTLE LOS ANGELES” JONATHAN LIEBESMAN COLUMBIA PICTURES CG Supervisor – Hydraulx “GULLIVER’S TRAVELS” ROB LETTERMAN TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX Character Supervisor – Hydraulx “IRON MAN 2” JON FAVREAU PARAMOUNT PICTURES/MARVEL Digital Supervisor – Hydraulx “AVATAR” JAMES CAMERON TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX VFX/Character Supervisor – Hydraulx “X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE” GAVIN HOOD TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX Character Supervisor – Hydraulx “BEDTIME STORIES” ADAM SHANKMAN WALT DISNEY PICTURES Character Supervisor “THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN DAVID FINCHER WARNER BROTHERS BUTTON” PARAMOUNT PICTURES Character Supervisor – Hydraulx + bidding producer (UC) “THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL” SCOTT DERRICKSON TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX CG Supervisor – Hydraulx “MEET DAVE” BRIAN ROBBINS TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX Animator “THE INCREDIBLE HULK” LOUIS LETERRIER UNIVERSAL PICTURES Animator Joe Harkins -Continued- “I AM LEGEND” FRANCIS LAWRENCE WARNER BROTHERS Lead Character Setup - SPI “BEOWULF” ROBERT ZEMECKIS PARAMOUNT PICTURES Senior Character Rigger/TD - SPI “GHOST RIDER” MARK STEVEN JOHNSON COLUMBIA PICTURES Lead Character Setup/TD - SPI RELATIVITY MEDIA “300” ZACK SNYDER WARNER BROTHERS Lead Character Setup - Hydraulx LEGENDARY PICTURES “OPEN SEASON” ROGER ALLERS SONY PICTURES ANIMATION Senior Character Rigger/TD - SPI JILL CULTON ANTHONY STACCHI “X-MEN: THE LAST STAND” BRETT RATNER TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX Sr. Character Tech Director - Hydraulx “SON OF THE MASK” LAWRENCE GUTERMAN NEW LINE CINEMA Creature Setup/TD - Tippett Studio “CONSTANTINE” FRANCIS LAWRENCE WARNER BROTHERS Creature Setup/TD - Tippett Studio “HELLBOY” GUILLERMO DEL TORO COLUMBIA PICTURES Creature Setup/TD - Tippett Studio “THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS” ANDY WACHOWSKI WARNER BROTHERS Creature Setup/TD - Tippett Studio LARRY WACHOWSKI “THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY STEPHEN NORRINGTON TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX GENTLEMEN” Creature Setup/TD - Tippett Studio “G.I.JOE: SPY TROOPS THE MOVIE” DALE CARMAN HASBRO Character Supervisor – Reel FX COMMERCIALS Contributed to campaigns for Nike, Gatorade, Coca-Cola, and Hasbro. Notable: Consultant – Alias/Wavefront 2003-2008 Patent: Co-Author U.S. Patent #20070268293 – Musculoskeletal Shape Skinning, 2006 Filed by Sony Corporation Authorship: Co-Author: Inspired 3D Advanced Rigging and Deformation Author: Finding Success Under 25 Affiliations: COPA (CO-OP of Artists), Visual Effects Society Education/Training: Full Sail University, A.S. Computer Animation, Sony Pictures Management Training Lectures/Teaching: Maya Master Class – Siggraph: 2003-2008, Golbins School of the Image: Paris, France Academy of Art, San Francisco, 3D Academy: Copenhagen, Gnomon School of Visual Effects .