LAIKA

2023 – Present | Sr. CG Environments Artist / Digital Matte Painter

Travis Knight's stop-motion adaptation of Colin Meloy's novel, in production at LAIKA. Built digital environments in Blender that extend handcrafted puppet sets into full cinematic worlds, integrating with the studio's USD and RenderMan pipeline to keep the digital work invisible against the physical craft. Breakdown work shown is password-protected; full case studies available on request.

NETFLIX

2022 | Digital Matte Painter / Compositing Lead

Henry Selick's stop-motion feature, produced through Netflix Animation. Led compositing and hybrid DMP workflows, integrating painted environments, projections, atmospherics, and stop-motion plates into Selick's stylized aesthetic.

Blue Sky Studios 2015 | Digital Matte Painter / Compositing Seq Lead

The Peanuts Movie was the first fully CG feature built around Charles Schulz’s characters, and the goal was to preserve the hand-drawn warmth of the original work. That applied to everything, including the snow. In Peanuts, snow carries a lot of the mood of the scene.

Blue Sky Studios

Compositing Seq Lead

The Ice Age franchise is where a lot of the core sky and atmosphere pipeline work at Blue Sky was developed and stress-tested. The environments are deceptively demanding — a world of glacial terrain, open sky, and extreme lighting conditions that has to read as both comedic and genuinely epic depending on what the scene needs.