Alp Altiner alp Location: Los Angeles, USA Language(s):
English, German, Italian, Korean Member Since: September 2004 Last Updated: 4 November 2008 Portfolio Views: 66164 Chosen as Favorite: 69
After Effects, BodyPaint, Bryce, Deep Paint, Flash, FreeHand, HDR Shop, Illustrator, Maya
Working as a freelance:
Visual FX Art Director
Los Angeles
I am a freelance Visual FX Artist - Art Director. I specialize in 2D and 3D matte Paintings, Conceptual Design for characters , creatures, and environments. Besides my 2D work I also work as a 3D artist using Zbrush for Character and Creature modeling, and Maya for Hardsurface modeling, as well as texturing, lighting and rendering. I am originally from Seattle Washington where I grew up, but moved to Los Angeles about seven years ago, where I am currently residing.
I have been working as a Visual Development Artist for over nine years. My education started in Multimedia and Sound design, where I worked in Web design, and multimedia creations using Director, Flash, Dreamweaver, html, dhtml, jsp, asp. and various Sound design software.
I also worked as a comic book artist for couple of years for Marvel, DC, Image Comics, Top Cow, and many other publishers, and have attentend San Diego Comic Book Convention for various signings.
Later on I started working as a freelance artist and continued in Video Game Development as a Conceptual Designer and Art Director. Then I started working in the Movie Industry as a Matte Painter, Conceptual Designer, and 3D artist .
My work has been published in various Art books, and Magazines including " The Art of Van Helsing " - " Master Class Matte Painting " by Ballistic Publishing and various other projects.
