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Kay Park-Kim

Simi Valley

Summary

Dynamic Lead Artist with extensive experience at Halon Entertainment, excelling in lighting, rendering, and character animation. Proven ability to mentor teams and enhance workflows. Proficient in Unreal and Maya, leveraging strong leadership and creative problem-solving skills to deliver high-quality visual content for major projects like Fortnite Game and various Hollywood movies and commercials.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Artist

Halon Entertainment
Glendale
04.2021 - Current
  • Led lighting and rendering for Epic Game Fortnite Lego minifigures, props, buildings and creatures, integrating dependencies and blueprints for prop bundles.
  • Managed postvisualization processes from tracking raw plates to animation, lighting, rendering, and compositing.
  • Transferred motion capture data for rigging, performed character animation blocking, and set up cameras for final renderings.
  • Conducted team meetings, reviews, developed tutorials, and facilitated bi-weekly team mentoring sessions for onboarding new talent. Attended weekly client meetings.
  • Minecraft, Atlas, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, John Wick 4, Argylle, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Cocaine Bear, Red Notice, Pinocchio

Layout

Previs Artist
Los Angeles
11.2013 - 08.2023
  • Halon Entertainment - Doom: The Dark Ages (2023): Game Cinematic Layout Artist
  • FX Network - American Horror Story Apocalypse Season 8 Teaser, Tyrant Season 2 Trailer: FX Artist
  • Proof Inc - Apartments.com commercial (2016)
  • Cavalry FX Studios - The Fantastic Four (2015)
  • Reel FX/Mandoo Pictures - Rock Dog (2015)

Postvis

Artist
Los Angeles
03.2014 - 11.2019
  • Halon Entertainment - The Call of the Wild(2018-2019), Aquaman (2018), Ad Astra (2017), The War for the Planet of the Apes(2016), Star Wars - The Force Awakens - Deleted Scenes(2015), Alice through the Looking Glass (2015), Independence Day 2 (2015)
  • Proof Inc - Shazam! (2018), Creed 2 (2018), Star Trek Beyond (2016), Ghostbusters (2015)
  • MPC - Passengers (2016)
  • The Third Floor - Unbroken (2014), Avengers 2 (2014)

Compositor

Lighter
01.2010 - 07.2019
  • Halon Entertainment - War for the Planet of the Apes (2020)
  • Proof Inc - Shazam! (2019), Creed 2 (2019)
  • Dilated Pixel - Boarderlands Game Commercial (2015) , Beautifying faces (2014, 2015)
  • Brain Zoo Studios - Iron Man and Captain America: Heroes United (2014) - Animated film, Undisclosed animated films with Amazon (2013)
  • Moonbot Studios - Super (2010)

Tracker

Various
Los Angeles
03.2014 - 05.2018
  • Mirada - Abbott Commercials (2018), Lexus Commercials (2015), Apple U2 Commercials & Music Video(2014)
  • Logan TV - Skylanders Game Commercial (2015)
  • Pixomondo - European TV episode (2014)

3D

Generalist
Shreveport, LA And Los Angeles
09.2011 - 08.2015
  • Framestore - Apple iPad presentation, Commercials: Game of War Hero, Pepsi Superbowl, SevenUp, Toaster Strudel, CarFx Bass
  • Worldwide FX - Various Hollywood films - Home Front, Olympus has Fallen, Iceman, Leatherface 3D Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Paper Boy
    Big Wedding, Stolen, Spiders 3D, Playing the Field, Trespass, Conan The Barbarian, Drive Angry, The Mechanic

Character

TD
New York City And Shreveport, LA
07.2006 - 11.2013
  • Lyzarts - Cloud System (2014) - Short animation
  • Moonbot Studios - The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morrise Lessmore - 2012 Oscar Winning Animation Short
  • So! Animation NYC - UK Virgin Media 3D animated Commercials, Sinupret for Kid, History Channel
  • VectorMax Corp - NBA Player and Italian Mob Mobile Game Projects.
  • Face2Face Inc - 3D animation commercials for Smart Parts Inc aired on ESPN and 3 episodes on the company website.

Adjunct Professor

LSUS Shreveport
Shreveport
07.2009 - 05.2011
  • Instructed college students in 3D animation and organic modeling techniques

Education

Master of Arts - Digital Arts

Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY
05-2007

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
05-2003

Skills

  • 3D generalist
  • Lead lighter, compositor, tracker
  • Previs/Postvis artist
  • FX artist
  • Character TD/rigger
  • AI Content Creator
  • Software proficiency: Unreal, Maya, After Effects, Nuke, Syntheyes, PF Track, Matchmover, Boujou, Mocha, Photoshop, Shotgun/Flow, and Confluence

Accomplishments

  • NEP Peer Recognition Award Winner - 2022-2025
  • CA it Award Film - 2015 Festival Judge, 2014 Marketing Director
  • Redemptive Film Festival - Winner of Best Storytelling Artist 2008 for Manny

Languages

English
Native/ Bilingual
Korean
Native/ Bilingual

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Lead Artist

Halon Entertainment
04.2021 - Current

Postvis

Artist
03.2014 - 11.2019

Tracker

Various
03.2014 - 05.2018

Layout

Previs Artist
11.2013 - 08.2023

3D

Generalist
09.2011 - 08.2015

Compositor

Lighter
01.2010 - 07.2019

Adjunct Professor

LSUS Shreveport
07.2009 - 05.2011

Character

TD
07.2006 - 11.2013

Master of Arts - Digital Arts

Pratt Institute

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

University of Florida

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