LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/moniquew
Show Reel: http://vimeo.com/moniquew
Available for work in the US and Canada (dual citizenship)
EXPERIENCE
HelloMoe Art Studio | Illustrator/Artist | Freelance | 09/1993–Present
Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and traditional tools (watercolors, acrylics etc...)
Sr. Digital Matte Painter | Animal Logic | 09/2021–11/2021
Tools: Photoshop, Nuke, Maya
Feature Film: DC League of Superpets (2022)
EXPERIENCE
HelloMoe Art Studio | Illustrator/Artist | Freelance | 09/1993–Present
Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and traditional tools (watercolors, acrylics etc...)
Sr. Digital Matte Painter | Animal Logic | 09/2021–11/2021
Tools: Photoshop, Nuke, Maya
Feature Film: DC League of Superpets (2022)
Digital Matte Painter | Sony Imageworks | 09/2019–04/2020
Tools: Photoshop, Nuke, Maya
Feature Film: Over The Moon (2020)
Sr. Digital Matte Painter | Cinesite | 09/2018–06/2019, 10/2020-09/2021
Tools: Photoshop, Nuke, Maya, Terragen
Feature Film: Addams Family (2019), Addams Family 2 (2021)
Digital Matte Painter | Sony Imageworks | 04/2015–07/2018
Tools: Photoshop, Nuke, Maya
Feature Films: Alice In Wonderland (2015), Smurfs The Lost Village (2016), Emoji Movie, (2017), Smallfoot (2018)
Designer/Illustrator | Microsoft | 07/2014–03/2015
Vendor: Adaquest
Designed illustrations for Microsoft online documentation.
Digital Matte Painter | MPC | 02/2013–02/2014
Tools: Photoshop, Nuke, Maya
Feature Films: Into the Storm (2014), Maleficent (2014), Godzilla (2014), 300 Rise of an Empire (2014), Fast and Furious 6 (2013), Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
VFX TA | Vancouver Film School | 09/2012–04/2013
Tools: Photoshop, Nuke, Maya
Designer/Illustrator | Microsoft | 1990, 1995-2009
Contract years: 1990–2000
Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
As the designer for Microsoft’s largest set of help documentation (Developer Division User Education), I combined artistic skills with product research and usability studies, to create effective and appealing documentation design and production practices. I also developed processes that ensured presentation to a multi-national audience while saving 14% in localization costs.
EDUCATION
Vancouver Film School | 2011-2012
3D Animation & Visual Effects
Bellevue College | 2009-2011
AA, Animation, and Graphics
Activities and Societies: Film Club, Digital Media Design Club, Phi Theta Kappa, Co-founder of the ASG Digital Media Design Program
Western Washington University | 1988-1993
BA: Visual Communications
Bellevue College | 2009-2011
AA, Animation, and Graphics
Activities and Societies: Film Club, Digital Media Design Club, Phi Theta Kappa, Co-founder of the ASG Digital Media Design Program
Western Washington University | 1988-1993
BA: Visual Communications