MATT WALLIN CV
Updated May 16, 2011
Education
Master’s equivalency granted by VCU at time of hire
12/92 Bachelor of Arts Degree, Cinema
Emphasis on animation, documentary and experimental filmmaking
8/88 - 12/92 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Special Training
8/92 - 12/92 Industrial Light & Magic, San Francisco, CA
Student Intern, Art Department
Teaching Overview
8/07 - Present Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Communication Arts
8/06 - 8/07 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Assistant Professor (Collateral Faculty), Communication Arts
Courses Taught Overview
Basic Communication Arts Software
3D Image & Movement (Animation)
2D Image & Movement (Animation)
Web Design
Game Design: Theory & Practice
Photographic Principles
Introduction to 3D Computer Graphics
History of Visual Effects
Advanced Topics in 3D
Organic Modelling for Concept Design
Cinema & Computer Expertise
I have over a decade of experience with 35mm, VistaVision, 65mm, 70mm, 16mm, Super 16mm and IMAX film production, HD and 4K video production and all related post-production pipeline processes.
I have expertise with Linux, Windows and Mac OSX compatible computers and software, including Nuke, Shake, Maya, Katana, Modo, Unity 3D, RenderMan, MentalRay, Inferno, Flame, Python, Perl, C++, C#, MEL, (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, AVID, Final Cut Pro, Commotion, Motion, AfterEffects and Photoshop.
I have helped develop and implement various production and post-production pipelines for both Hollywood and independent films. I have worked professionally in visual effects and animation since 1992 and am a full and active member of the VES (Visual Effects Society).
Continuing Scholarship and Professional Practice
1/12 - Present CFA Institute, Charlottesville, VA
Create six 2D animations for company wide intranet.
9/08 - Present Bitbot Pictures, LLC, Charlottesville, VA
Founder of digital image processing and motion picture company.
8/10 - 9/10 Studio G, Los Angeles, CA
Worked as Senior Technical Director and Compositor on cinematic sequences for Activision’s “Call of Duty: Black Ops”. Responsible for all lighting, rendering and compositing.
5/08 - 8/08 MPC (Moving Picture Company), Vancouver, BC
Hired to work as Senior Digital Compositor on “The Watchmen”.
4/07 - Present IDD, LLC, Charlottesville, VA
Formed IDD, LLC to direct the documentary film project, “I Die Daily: The Making of Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle”.
8/07 - 11/07 Sony Pictures Imageworks, Culver City, CA
Worked as Senior Technical Director on “I Am Legend” and as Stereoscopic 3D Technical Director on “Beowulf”.
9/05 - 12/05 Weta Digital Ltd., Wellington, New Zealand
Hired as Digital Artist/Compositor for “King Kong”.
6/01 - 7/07 Mantron Corporation, New York, New York
Formed Mantron Corporation to produce visual effects, design and computer graphics for multiple clients. Mantron Corporation closed in 2007.
1/97 - 7/07 Glacier Field, LLC., New York, New York
Hired by artist Matthew Barney to work as Visual Effects Supervisor on his films, “Cremaster 5” , “Cremaster 2”, “Cremaster 3”, “De Lama Lamina” & “Drawing Restraint 9”.
3/04 - 8/04 ESC Entertainment, Alameda, CA
Hired by ESC Entertainment as a digital artist for “Constantine” doing lighting, fx and compositing.
4/03 - 3/04 Tippett Studio, Berkeley, CA
Hired by Tippett Studio as a digital artist for “Matrix: Revolutions” and “Hellboy”. Responsible for lighting and compositing.
7/02 - 4/03 ESC Entertainment, Alameda, CA
Hired by ESC Entertainment as a digital artist for “Matrix: Reloaded”.
5/93 - 9/99 Industrial Light and Magic, San Francisco, CA
Hired by ILM to do extensive 2D compositing, animation, plate restoration, painting, rig-removal, color- timing, and creating articulated mattes. Composited feature film effects shots utilizing UNIX, Shell Scripting and proprietary software.
Film Credits
September 2010 Designer/Animator/Technical Director
Virginia Film Festival
Designed, animated and rendered the 3D animated bumper
logo for the 2010 Virginia Film Festival.
August 2010 Technical Director / Compositor
Filament Productions Nashville Rising
Digital paint and artifact removal from video material of singer in concert
for Filament Productions, Charlottesville, VA.
August 2010 Technical Director / Compositor - Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops
Video game cinematic of game character inserted into historical footage.
Video game.
March 17 - 19th 2010 Director of Photography - V. Scott Balcerek’s Satan & Adam
Three day shoot at Morris Sound Recording Studio for a
documentary film.
Dec 4-6, 2009 Director of Photography
Terra Mobilis: Fire and Ice Colloquium
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World.
Brown University, Rhode Island
Video Documentation of Basalt Lava Pour by Keith Edmier for the Colloquium at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design)
2010 Director/Producer - Matt Wallin’s I Die Daily: Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle
2009 Compositing Supervisor, MPC, Vancouver – Zack Snyder’s Watchmen
2007 Visual Effects Supervisor, Corda, LLC - Matthew Barney’s De Lama Lamina
2007 Senior Technical Director, Sony Imageworks - Francis Lawrence I Am Legend
2007 Technical Director, Sony Imageworks – Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf
2006 Technical Director, Brainstorm Digital – Barry Levinson’s Man of the Year
2005 Technical Director/Compositor, Weta Digital – Peter Jackson’s King Kong
Academy Award: Best Visual Effects 2005
2005 Visual Effects Supervisor, Restraint, LLC - Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint 9
2005 Digital Compositor, (ESC) Entertainment - Francis Lawrence Constantine
2004 Digital Compositor, Tippett Studio - Guillermo del Toro Hellboy
2003 Technical Director, Visual Effects Supervisor & Producer, Mantron - Matthew Barney’s The Order
2003 Digital Compositor, Tippett Studio - Wachoski Brothers The Matrix: Revolutions
2003 Digital Compositor, (ESC) Entertainment - Wachoski Brothers The Matrix: Reloaded
2003 Visual Effects Supervisor, Mantron - Steven Klein’s Madonna: Xstatic Process
2002 Visual Effects Supervisor, Glacier Field, LLC - Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 3
Premiered at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2002
1999 Visual Effects Supervisor, Glacier Field, LLC - Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 2
1999 Digital Compositor, ILM - Steve Sommers The Mummy
1998 Digital Compositor, ILM - George Lucas Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
1998 Digital Compositor, ILM - Joe Dante Small Soldiers
1998 Digital Compositor, ILM - Woody Allen Celebrity
1998 Digital Compositor, ILM - Shoah Foundation The Last Days (a digital restoration project)
Academy Award: Best Documentary Feature 1998
1998 2D Paint/Roto, ILM - Steve Sommers Deep Rising
1997 Visual Effects Supervisor, Glacier Field, LLC - Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 5
1997 Digital Compositor, ILM – Steven Speilberg’s The Lost Word: Jurassic Park 2
1997 Digital Compositor, ILM - Jan DeBont Speed 2
1997 Digital Compositor, ILM - George Lucas Star Wars: Special Edition
1996 Digital Compositor, ILM - Disney’s 101 Dalmatians
1996 2D Paint/Roto, ILM - Jan DeBont Twister
1996 Computer Graphics Resource Assistant, ILM - Rob Reiner The American President
Exhibitions
July 18th - August 30, 2008 I Die Daily - Work in Progress
911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, Washington
Works in progress on display as single channel video installation
September 16 - 20, 2007 Documentaries Works - In - Progress
29th Annual IFP Market, New York
20 minute edit presented theatrically on Digital Betacam
March 27 - May 3, 2003 X-STaTIC PRO=Cess: Madonna & Steven Klein Madonna & Steven Klein. Steven Klein Gallery, Boy Toy Inc. 2003 (Special Visual Effects and Animation credit for both book and Deitch Projects, NY
Publications
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 129
August 12, 2011
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in “Cowboys & Aliens” LIVE from Siggraph 2011: Vancouver
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 127
July 23, 2011
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in “Transformers 3: Dark Side of the Moon”
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 126
July 8, 2011
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in “Super 8”
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 124
June 18, 2011
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in “X-Men: First Class”
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 123
May 30, 2011
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in “Thor”
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 121
May 13, 2011
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in “AI: Artificial Intelligence”
Lecture: “Cinema in the 21st Century” University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, CA. March 29, 2011
Rethinking the Silver Screen: Science, Film and, Art after “Avatar”, Jorge Benitez and Matt Wallin
The International Journal of Science in Society, Volume 2 2011
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 117
February, 11, 2011
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in “Black Swan”
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 114
December 24, 2010
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in “Tron: Legacy”
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 113
December 18, 2010
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in “Monsters”
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 112
December 1, 2010
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1”
VFH Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
With Good Reason: "Seeing the Bigger Picture" (Viginia’s only statewide Public Radio Program)
November 27, 2010
Public radio interview and discussion of VFX, filmmaking, technology and robotics.
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 111
November 2, 2010
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in James Cameron’s 1992 film, “Terminator 2”.
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 109
October 1, 2010
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in Ron Howard’s 1995 film, “Apollo 13”.
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 108
September 8, 2010
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in Edgar Wright’s “Scott Pilgrim vs The World”.
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 106
August 4, 2010
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects and animation in Christopher Nolan’s “Inception”.
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 103
June 28, 2010
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects and animation in Toy Story 3.
VCU Professor a Virtuoso of Cinematic Effects, Tom Gresham
VCU Communications and Public Relations, February 4, 2010
Dream Weaver, Richard Ernsberger, Jr.
Virginia Living Magazine, June 2009 pgs. 46-47
"I Die Daily": Dissecting An Artist's Singular Mind, Shelia Farr
The Seattle Times, Friday, August 1, 2008. The Arts Section
Cremaster Rising, Adrian MacDonald
On Screen Magazine, Vol. 18, No. 2 Spring/Summer 2008
pgs. 36 - 38
Keith Edmier 1991 - 2007 Booth-Clibborn Editions; Limited, of 2000 signed by artist, ed edition (February 1, 2008) Special Thanks
Drawing Restraint Vol. II, Matthew Barney.
Uplink, 2006 pg. 156, 159
King Kong, Joe Fordham
Cinefex, No. 104, January 2006 pg. 53
Drawing Restraint 9 Review, Leslie Felperin
Variety, Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Mantron VFX Artists Talk “Drawing Restraint 9”, Ian Failles
VFX Blog, August 1, 2005.
Matthew Barney’s Crazy Fantasy
Studio Voice, August 2005, pg. 52
Matthew Barney & Bjork: Transformation of Love
Switch, August 2005 Vol.23 No.8, pg. 64
Film Clips
Cinefex Weekly Update, Issue 47, December 7, 2004
Cremaster of His Domain, Todd Wagner
Wired Magazine, May 2003, pg. 65
The Crysler Building’s Strange Staring Role in Cremaster 3, Christina Rogers. Architectural Record, July 2003, pg. 65-66
X-STaTIC PRO=Cess: Madonna & Steven Klein Madonna & Steven Klein. Steven Klein Gallery, Boy Toy Inc. 2003 (Special Visual Effects and Animation credit for both book and Deitch Projects, NY exhibition 3/27/03 - 5/3/03)
Cremaster 3, Matthew Barney
Hatje Cantz Publishers; illustrated edition edition (January 2003)
pg. 197 (double check page #)
Cremaster 3 Review, Scott Fundas
Variety, Wednesday, May 15, 2002
Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett: Recasting Pygmallian, Lynn Zelevansky. Rizzoli Books, 2002 pp. 108 (multiple photo credits)
The Order, Matthew Barney
Guggenheim Museum Publications, First Edition, 2002 pg. 30
Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle, Nancy Spector. Guggenheim Museum Publications, First Edition, 2002 pg. 501-502
Cremaster 2, Matthew Barney
Walker Art Center (October 1999), 1st Edition pg. 110
Phantom Visions, Mark Cotta Vaz
Cinefex, No. 78, July 1999 pg. 71
Cremaster 5, Matthew Barney
Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap); 1st edition (July 1997) pg. 99
The Art of Star Wars: Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back, Deborah Call. Del Rey Books and Ballantine Books, First Revised Edition, 1997 pg. 192
How Do They Do That?: The Incredible Work of ILM
International Photographer: Film and Video Techniques Magazine, February 1997, pg. 45
Industrial Light & Magic: Into the Digital Realm, Mark Cotta Vaz & Rose Duignan. Del Rey Books and Ballantine Books, First Ed. 1996 pg. 322
Lectures & Presentations
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 129
August 12, 2011
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in “Cowboys & Aliens” LIVE from Siggraph 2011: Vancouver
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 127
July 23, 2011
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in “Transformers 3: Dark Side of the Moon”
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 126
July 8, 2011
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in “Super 8”
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 124
June 18, 2011
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in “X-Men: First Class”
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 123
May 30, 2011
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in “Thor”
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 121
May 13, 2011
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in “AI: Artificial Intelligence”
Lecture: “Cinema in the 21st Century” University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, CA. March 29, 2011
Rethinking the Silver Screen: Science, Film and, Art after “Avatar”, Jorge Benitez and Matt Wallin
Science in Society Conference 2010
Madrid, Spain
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 117
February, 11, 2011
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in “Black Swan”
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 114
December 24, 2010
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in “Tron: Legacy”
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 113
December 18, 2010
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in “Monsters”
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 112
December 1, 2010
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1”
VFH Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
With Good Reason: "Seeing the Bigger Picture" (Viginia’s only statewide Public Radio Program)
November 27, 2010
Public radio interview and discussion of VFX, filmmaking, technology and robotics.
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 111
November 2, 2010
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in James Cameron’s 1992 film, “Terminator 2”.
Visiting Artist: Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Visiting artist and lecturer at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh
October 26, 2010
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 109
October 1, 2010
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in Ron Howard’s 1995 film, “Apollo 13”.
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 108
September 8, 2010
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects in Edgar Wright’s “Scott Pilgrim vs The World”.
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 106
August 4, 2010
Audio podcast discussion re: the visual effects and animation in Christopher Nolan’s “Inception”.
The VFX Show Podcast, Episode 103
June 28, 2010
Audio podcast re: the animation in Toy Story 3.
Lecture: “Connect”, VCU School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, April 20, 2010
Presentation: “Making It Happen”, VCU Student SIGGRAPH organization
Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts, Richmond, VA 2010
Presentation: “Digital Image Capture and Manipulation”, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2009
Presentation: “Feature Film Visual Effects and Animation”, Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Film and Animation, Rochester, NY, 2008
The Importance of Understanding the Market
SECAC Conference
Charleston, West Virginia 2007
Presentation “Art and Commerce Are Not Mutually Exclusive”
Speaker: Castro Theater, San Francisco, California, 2003
“Visual Effects for Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle”
Speaker: California Film Institute, Rafael Film Center, San Rafael, California. Saturday, June 7th 2003
“Visual Effects for Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle”
Presentation: “Digital Effects in Contemporary Art”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, April 12, 2003
Panel Discussion: “Cremaster 3: The Process of Making”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, February 22, 2003
VCU Committees
2010 - 2011
Faculty Senate
School of the Arts Faculty Advisory Committee / Secretary
2009 - 2010
Faculty Senate
Academic Programs & Research (Faculty Senate Subcommitee)
School of the Arts Faculty Advisory Committee
2008 - 2009
Faculty Senate
School of the Arts Faculty Advisory Committee / Chair
2007 - 2008
Search Committee / Communication Arts / Robert Meganck, Chair
Service
Visual Effects Society (VES)
Full member
The Visual Effects Society (VES) is a non-profit professional, honorary society, dedicated to advancing the arts, sciences, and applications of visual effects and to improving the welfare of its members by providing professional enrichment and education, fostering community, and promoting industry recognition.
Full member
The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.
VCU Student Siggraph Chapter
Faculty Advisor
Serving as Faculty Advisor for the Student Siggraph Chapter at VCU.