Thursday, June 6, 2013

Sunbi VFX

My new company website is here: http://sunbi-vfx.com/
Reel is hidden but it's the same thing as below.

Will update personal website soon too: http://cargocollective.com/kaypark
Right now it just has my reel and resume

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Monday, June 27, 2011

Resume

Kyoung “Kay” Park ● kay@sunbi-vfx.com ● http://kaypark22.blogspot.com



SOFTWARE SKILLS

Maya ● XSI  ● NUKEx ● Matchmover ● Boujou ● Real Flow ● Mudbox ● Photoshop ● Premiere ● AfterEffects ● Final Cut Pro ● Shotgun

EXPERIENCE

BRAIN ZOO STUDIOS Los Angeles, CA ● Nov 2013 - current
Undisclosed Animation Film (2014) - Lighting and rendering, layout in Maya, compositing in AE 

SUNBI VFX Los Angeles, CA ● May 2013-Current
Owner/Freelance Artist

LYZARTS Los Angeles, CA ● May -June, Oct 2013
Cloud System (2013) - Rigging the main character for 3d animation short in maya

WORLDWIDE FX Shreveport, LA ● Sep 2010- April 2013
3D Generalist
Home Front (2013) Olympus has Fallen (2013) Iceman (2013) Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)
The Paperboy (2012) Stolen (2012) Playing for Keeps (2012) Spiders 3D (2011) Trespass (2011)
Conan the Barbarian(2011) Drive Angry(2010) The Mechanic(2010) ● Maya, Nuke, Matchmover, photoshop, boujou, mudbox, deadline renderer, realflow, mental ray, 3delight ● character/prop rigging, modeling, texturing, shading, ncloth sim/animation, lighting, rendering, matchmoving, and tracking, smoke/fire/blood fx sim, 2d compositing: shake animation, roto, dust/wire/extra removal, color correction, tracking, green screen correction

Louisiana State University Shreveport Shreveport, LA● July 2009 – May 2011
Adjunct Professor
Taught intro to 3D Animation and Organic Modeling for 5 semesters ● software used: Maya, Photoshop, AfterEffects, mudbox

MOONBOT STUDIOS Shreveport, LA ● Mar 2009–Sep 2010
Character TD/3D artist
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (2010) – An award winning animation by William Joyce, the creator behind Meet the Robinson, Robots, and Toy Story, etc. Character/Prop rigging in Maya and XSI. Character/prop modeling in Maya and XSI. Layout, lighting and rendering using XSI ● SUPER(2010)- 2D tentacle animation using AfterEffects ●  SIGGRAPH New Orleans(2009) - Louisiana State booth Moonbot crew ● Maya, XSI, After Effects, Shotgun, After Effects, nuke

SO! ANIMATION NYC ● Feb 2008 – Oct 2008
Character TD/3D artist
Character/Cloth/Hair TD for 3D characters for UK Virgin Media commercials project: Video on Demand ● Grass modeling/rendering @ Sinupret for Kid commercial ● HISTORY CHANNEL special commercial spots on tracing your family photo ● XSI ● jscripting

VEXTORMAX CORP Jersey City, NJ ● May-Dec 2007
Character TD/3D artist ● Created exporting and rigging pipelines for NBA players & Italian mobile project ● MAYA, XSI and m3g Exporter ● mel & jscripting ● Worked closely with senior programmers and digital artists at the same time.

FACE2FACE INC Summit, NJ ● July-Nov 2006
Character TD ● Assisted in environmental modeling, shading, lighting and rendering ● Rig all the characters supervised under a senior TD ● Script commands for rendering pass, layers, and rigging ● 3D animation commercials to be air on ESPN for Smart Parts Inc ● 3 episodes that are 2 minutes each for the company’s website ●  MAYA and XSI

KEVIN JORDAN FILM (Meadowbrook Pictures) NYC ● Apr-June 2006
3D artist ● Created A&E logo opening sequence for a film Brooklyn Lobster (2005) behind the scene special ● Worked on 3D environmental layout design of the film’s original shooting location for the outdoor film premiere ● MAYA, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects

LEESER ARCHITECTURE NYC ● March 2006
3D artist ● Worked under a lead director to create 3D previz renderings of renovation of Museum of Moving Images in Queens, NY ● Assisted in environmental modeling, lighting, shading and rendering ● Composite film footage, people and outdoor pictures ● MAYA, 3DStudioMax, Photoshop and After Effects

SIGGRAPH LOS ANGELES ● Aug 2005
Student Volunteer ● Worked at the Art Gallery Hall ● written an article about my Siggraph experience on Pratt PIXEL newspaper

SIMULATION LAB University of Florida CE Department ● 2003
Research assistance ● Created BLENDER tutorial videos for SPIE Conference 2003.


EDUCATION

PRATT INSTITUTE Brooklyn, NY ● 2007
MFA in Computer Graphics (Digital Arts 3D)

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA Gainesville, FL ● 2003
BS in Computer Information Science

International Baccalaureate Diploma ● 1999

imdb link: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4192600/
linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kaypark

AWARDS & HONORS

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (@Moonbot studios):
84TH ACADEMY AWARDS - BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM  ● 2012
SIGGRAPH - BEST IN SHOW ● 2011
Best Short Film for Kids: Traverse City Film Fest

Grand Prize: Annecy+ Golden Space Needle
Audience Favorite: Animated Shorts: Palm Springs Int'l Film Fest
Audience Award: Seattle International Film Festival
Special Jury Prize for Imaginative Storytelling: Nashville Film Festival
Audience Award, Best Short: Florida Film Fest
Audience Favorite Goujon Caille Award: Cinema on the Bayou
Best Animated Short: Cleveland International Film Festival
Best Animated Short: CinequestFilm Fest



Winner of Animation for Commercials Red Stick International Animation Festival ● 2009 ● Virgin Media – Therapy (@ So! Animation studios)
Winner of Best Storytelling Artist Redemptive Film Festival ● 2008 ● Manny (master thesis)
P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship ● 2005 (@Pratt)
Florida Full Bright Scholarship ● 1999 (@U of Florida)



Official Selection for The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore: 2010-2011
Martha's Vineyard Film Fest
LSU-Shreveport
Burbank Int'l Film Fest
Woodstock Film Fest
Day In The District presented by Lone Star Film Society (Ft. Worth, TX)
Ottawa Int'l Film Fest
Palo Alto Int'l Film Fest
Tacoma Film Fest
3D Wire Int'l Animation and Video Games Market
Wiesbaden Best of International Animation 2010/2011 Film Fest
Rhode Island Int'l Film Fest
Athens International Film Festival
USA Film Fest-National Short Film and Video Competition 
Gulf Film Festival
Cinequest Film Festival

Film Festival San Jose
Aspen Shortsfest
Nashville Film Festival Short Films
Santa Barbara Film Festival
Cinema on the Bayou
Florida Film Festival Fest Orlando
Cleaveland International Film Festival
Gulf Film Festival
Palm Springs International Film Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival
Sarasota Film Festival
Seattle International Film Festival
Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film


Official Selections for Manny (2007) : 2007-2009
California Online Film Festival ● Apr 2009
THE WALL outdoor installation Oakland, CA ● Feb 2009
Moving Image Film Festival Toronto, Canada● 2008
Bush Fire Film Festival ● 2008
Big Apple Film Festival ● 2008
Redemptive Film Festival ● 2008
Aloha, Girl Fest ● 2008
GIAA Festival ● 2008
LA international children's film festival ● 2008
Big Bear Lake International Film Festival ●2008
Twin Cities Underground Film Festival ● 2008
Cinesol independent film festival ● 2008
Palm Springs International Short Film Festival ● 2008
Route 66 Film Festival ● 2008
Wildwood By The Sea Film Festival ● 2008
Schweitzer Lakedance Film Festival ● 2008
Gold Lion Film Festival 2008 (Swaziland) Maseru, Lesotho ● 2008
Landlocked Film Festival ● 2008
California International Animation Festival ● 2008
Independent's Film Festival ● 2008
Belladonna Urbis Animax (Christchurch, New Zealand) ● 2008
DigiFestival.net 2008 Edition (Venice, Italy) ● 2008
Chinh India Kids Film Festival ● 2008
Washougal International Film Festival ● 2008
Philadelphia Independent Film Festival ● 2008
Woods Hole Film Festival ● 2008
Montclair International Film Festival ● 2008
Victory Arts Project in Dallas, TX ● 2007
Pratt Show New York City ● 2007

Kyoung “Kay” Park ● kay.park22@gmail.com ● 박 경