Peter Greenstone

Animation and Visual Effects Artist

Austin, TX - pgreenstone@mac.com

Profile

I have experience working as a CGI artist, animator, supervisor, and director on projects for film, television, computer games, and special venues such as theme park movie rides.  Often, my participation is in both the design and technical production aspects.  While I have developed a specialty for character animation I still maintain the skills and enjoy the challenges of many other aspects of production, from writing and storyboarding to rendering and editing.  I like to consider options from all levels of the process when coming up with a creative/technical solution.

Experience

Lead Animator, Seismic Entertainment, San Francisco, CA    1994-1996

CD-ROM game production.  Responsible for character/environment design, construction, animation, and

rendering. (staff)

 

Animator/Technical Director, Metrolight Studios, Los Angeles, CA    1996-2001

Feature film, television, and special venue.  I wore a lot of different hats from technical grunt, designer, compositor, modeler, animator, scene supervisor, lead, and eventually Art Director. (staff)

 

Lead Artist/Animator, Union Productions, Los Angeles, CA    2001

Responsible for designing, building, animating, and rendering of futuristic CGI cityscape and flying vehicles and other elements and compositing/tracking with live action plates for “Back To The Future” ride at Universal Studios theme park in Tokyo. (freelance)

 

Animator, Kleiser-Walczak, Los Angeles, CA, & North Adams, Mass.     2001

Character and effects animation for feature films, television, and stereoscopic movie rides. (freelance)

 

Animation Director, Harold, Rome, Italy    2001-2003

Mostly animated television commercials.  Responsible for all character and effects animation from storyboards to directing (and training in numerous cases) animators to animating much of the work myself.  I also shared overall responsibility for story, development, lighting, rendering, and editing. (freelance)

 

Lead Animator, SimEx Digital Studios, Los Angeles, CA    2002

Responsible for animation (character and other) for numerous scenes in a stereoscopic movie-ride at LegoLand theme parks. (freelance)

 

Lead Animator, Pangea Software, Austin, TX    2002-2004

Character animation for several computer games.

 

Animation Director, Simple Pictures, Rome, Italy    2003-2005

Short animated film and several television commercials.  While my title was Animation Director I did a lot more than that.  I was a writer, designer, instructor, and both video and audio editor as well.

 

More clients and contact info available upon request

PROJECTS (partial list)

Imagine Entertainment – “water drop” logo animation

AMC Theaters –  “Clip” Feature Presentation pre-show

Batman & Robin - trailer and title sequence – Intralink

Kull the Conqueror – Universal

Knott’s Berry Farm – roller coaster advertisement

DragonHeartII – Universal

Poseidon’s Fury – Universal Studios theme park, Florida

Red Planet – Warner Bros.

Impostor – Dimension Films

AntiTrust - MGM

Back to the Future ride - Universal Studios theme park, Tokyo.  Pre-show

Corkscrew Hill – Busch Gardens theme park.  Movie ride

Radio City Music Hall – stereoscopic movie for the Christmas show

Formica – Harold

Acua Lete – Harold

Gnomes – animated PSA series for RAI in Italy

The One – Columbia Tri-Star

The Coin – animation short for Siggraph 2002

software skills

Maya Unlimited - 3D

Chalice - compositing

Shake - compositing

After Effects

Photoshop

Final Cut

Premier

Painter

basic UNIX

Mac

Windows