Matthew Rampias 805-338-5177 [email protected] OBJECTIVE I am looking to expand upon my leadership skills while continuing to hone my ability as an experienced lighter and compositor whenever possible. QUALIFICATIONS I have 20 years experience lighting and compositing, with roles from artist to supervisor for feature films, commercials, TV productions and games using a variety of platforms and software packages. I come from a generalist background and have experience in many areas of production pipelines. Skills VFX, CG and Lighting Supervision. Lighting and Compositing Software packages and renderers include: • Katana 3D with PRMan and Arnold • Nuke • Maya to Arnold • Unreal • Houdini/Mantra • After Effects • Maya VRay • Photoshop EMPLOYMENT 2018 - Present Lead Lighting, Sony Pictures Imageworks • Lead Lighter for the Marketing Department • Lead Lighter for: • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Oscar for Best Animated Film) • Angry Birds 2 • Connecting 2018 CG Supervisor, MPC LA • Led the team on a few Toyota Commercials 2018 CG Supervisor, Duncan Studios • Mary Poppins Returns 2017-2018 CG Supervisor, Framestore LA • Led the teams on several commercials. • NRJ, Capital One Quicksilver (Desert), Guardians Mission: Breakout 2016-2017 Senior Look Development, Lead Lighting • Lookdev and Lighting on the “Evony World” Superbowl Ad and several other spots. • Lookdev on various Toys such as Superman, Captain America, Pinkie Pie, and more. • Lead Lighting on the Gingerbread Deal Spots and the Target 2016 Holiday Mini Musical (Rat King Song) 2016 CG Supervisor, Psyop inc. • Led the CG team On the Target Star Wars Commercial “There’s a Rebel in All of Us” 2015-2106 VFX Supervisor, RGH Themed Entertainment Media • Worked with the dev team to create a pipeline structure to support future projects. • Worked with the Creative Director and designers to come up with concepts, and stories for stereoscopic panorama ride films. 2015 Senior Lighter, Sony Pictures Imageworks • Shot lighting, sequence template creation and maintenance, tutorials and workflow documentation on “Pixels,” a live action feature 2014-2015 CG Supervisor, RGH Themed Entertainment Media • Worked with Pipeline leads to create, test and implement new pipeline tools. • Managed, gave guidance and delegated work to artists throughout the production. • Forecasted monitored and defined cost in man hours associated with all departments. • Created and gave demonstrations of our technology, workflow and media to high profile clients and explained techniques and approaches to senior corporate staff. 2013 Compositing, Psyop, Inc. • Worked with lead designer, and lighter to match reference artwork and come up with interesting ways of making animated cg look like paper artwork inspired by Eiko Ojala 2012-2013 Lighting and Compositing Lead, DisneyToon Studios • Worked closely with the Art Director, CG Supervisor, and Digital Department Leads to establish the artistic look of the film through lighting and compositing. • Created and communicated well thought out lighting direction and shot retakes • Lit production keys, key art, and production shots when necessary • Provided lighting and comp set-ups and technical solutions to our vendor studios. • Worked with Marketing and Consumer Products divisions providing techniques, models, and rendered artwork to facilitate worldwide marketing campaigns and toy development. 2012-2012 Lighting, Weta Digital • Lighting on “The Hobbit” for the flashback sequence involving Azog and Thorin Oakshield. 2005-2012 Lighting and Compositing and Look Dev, Sony Pictures Imageworks Lighting and Compositing Look Development Stereo • Hotel Transylvania • Men in Black 3 • Hotel Transylvania • Men in Black 3 • Arthur Christmas, • Men in Black 3 • The Smurfs • The Smurfs • Arthur Christmas, • The Zookeeper • Alice in Wonderland • The Smurfs • Alice in Wonderland • Cloudy with a Chance of • Cloudy with a Chance of • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Meatballs Meatballs • Monster House • Eagle Eye • Open Season 3D • I Am Legend • Surf’s Up • Open Season 2008-2009 CG Supervisor and Project Manager for Rolling Razor, Inc Promotion 2003-2005 Lighting, Pacific Data Images/DreamWorks Animation • Lighting and Compositing on “Madagascar” and Academy Award nominated “Shrek 2” 2003 Lighting/FX Supervisor, Todd Grimes Productions, Inc. 2002-2003 Lighting, Effects, Animation, Modeling, Compositing, Nick Digital 2002 Lighting, Fluid Dynamics, Base 2 Studios 2001-2002 Lighting, Effects, and Animation, Threshold Digital Research. 2000-2001 Lighting and Effects, Neutronium/DNA Productions, Inc. 2000 Designer/Animator, ABC 1999-2000 Lighting and Effects, Foundation Imaging 1998-1999 Lighting and Pre-visualization, Pittard Sullivan 1997-1998 CG Modeler, Lighter and Animator, DreamWorks SKG 1997 Instructor, Nova Institute, Culver City, CA 1994-1997 Game Developer, Art Data Interactive REFERENCES Darren Lurie, Supervisor Sony Pictures Imageworks [email protected] Alan Chen, Lighting/Lookdev Lead, Imageworks [email protected] Greg Reynolds Sr FX, Blizzard [email protected] Robert Waddell, Sr. Themed Entertainment Producer [email protected] .