Albert Szostkiewicz

Current

FX Artist, on-set supervisor at Lunapark motion arts collective
3D motion animator, compositing, on-set supervisor at Freelancer

Past

3D Animator, VFX Supervisor at Alien FX
Camera assistant, on-set supervisor, 3D animator at TPS studio filmowe
3D Motion Animator at Lightcraft

Motion Animator at TVN 24
3D GFX for computer games at Freelancer

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Education

Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw

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Industry

Motion Pictures and Film

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Albert Szostkiewicz’s Summary

I am young, quick learning 3D Animator passionate about my work with almost 5 years of commercial experience, working in some of the biggest Polish post production houses. I have broad range of experience working directly with clients as well as onset supervising.
My specialities are fluids fx, I'm certified by Next Limit as expert RealFlow user.
I’m always looking for next interesting project. Willing to relocate.

Worked on movies:
2009 Niech żyje pogrzeb!! (3D Animation)
2009 Magic Tree (Fluid artist, Digital Compositing)
2007 Katyn (Digital Compositing) [OSCAR nominated movie]
2006 Job czyli ostatnia szara komorka (CG FX)
2006 Max Schmeling documentary (HiSpeed Camera assistant)

Adverts:
2004-2009 Many ad's done as fx artist, 3d motnion animator, digital compostior

music videos:
2006 Abradab - "rap to nie zabawa juz" [winner of Yach film 2006]

Games:
2001-2004 gfx for games (Amiga/PC/Console/Mobile).

Other:
2008 Fluid effects for Polish animation on Expo Saragossa 2008 [Poland won 3-rd place out of 104 countries]

Contact
tel. +48 504 242 858
mail. (please check tmdag.com)

Albert Szostkiewicz’s Specialties:

Fluids fx, certified by Next Limit as expert RealFlow user.
Experience in Film projects, Commercials and Television, Onset Supervising.

Maya, Lightwave, 3dMAX, Realflow, boujou, pftrack, Shake, Nuke, After effect, Final Cut, Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator

Albert Szostkiewicz’s Experience

FX Artist, on-set supervisor

Lunapark motion arts collective

(Motion Pictures and Film industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year)

Responsible for particle effects (fluid, smoke, fire). Also working as on-set supervisor

Working on sorftware: Autodesk Maya, Sidefx Houdini, Nextlimit Realflow.
3D motion animator, compositing, on-set supervisor

Freelancer

(Motion Pictures and Film industry)

October 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)

Worked as a freelancer with many polish post production companies and advert agencies.

Hilited projects:

Platige Image [http://www.platige.com/]
(KATYŃ, compositing, Apple SHAKE)[Oscar nominated movie]

Badi-Badi [http://www.badibadi.com/]
(FX animator, 'METEO' commercial, Autodesk MAYA)

Nano fx [http://www.nanofxstudios.com/]
(FX Animator, fluid effects for Polish animation on Expo Saragossa 2008, Realflow, 3D Max) [Poland won 3-rd place out of 104 countries]

DouglasFisher [http://www.douglasfisher.co.uk]
(Realflow scripts)
and many more.
3D Animator, VFX Supervisor

Alien FX

(Motion Pictures and Film industry)

February 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 8 months)

Worked as vfx supervisor, special effects animator, digital compositor and fluid artist. Worked as a part of a team as well as single person on chosen projects. Also worked as on-set supervisor.

Worked on software: 3D Studio Max, Adobe After Effect, Apple Shake, NextLimit Realflow, Luxology Modo
Camera assistant, on-set supervisor, 3D animator

TPS studio filmowe

(Motion Pictures and Film industry)

March 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 5 months)

Rapid camera (NAC-K4) assistant and on-set supervisor. Worked also as 3D animator on Polish movie “Job - czyli ostatnia, szara komórka”

Worked on software: Adobe After Effect, Apple Shake, Final Cut pro, Luxology Modo.
3D Motion Animator

Lightcraft

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2004 — March 2006 (2 years 1 month)

Responsible for creating 3D animations and composting for commercials as a one person as well as a part of very small team.
Worked also on polish music video Abradab - “rap to nie zabawa już” (directed by Kobas Laksa), winner of YACH FESTIVAL 2006

Worked on software:Newtek Lightwave, Luxology Modo, Newtek VideoToaster, Apple Shake.
Motion Animator

TVN 24

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

July 2005 — December 2005 (6 months)

One of three motion animators in polish TV station, working on footages and montage for TVN24,TVN Meteo, TVN Turbo, TVN Style. Responsible for creation of footages, montage and graphical frameworks.

Worked on software: Apple Final Cut Studio (final cut, life type), Adobe After effect, dodatkowo Newtek Lightwave, Apple Shake, Luxology Modo.
3D GFX for computer games

Freelancer

(Computer Games industry)

January 1999 — March 2004 (5 years 3 months)

Worked as a freelancer with many companies

Hilited projects:
Synergenix Interactive (whole gfx, animation, team leader, game "Anarchy Boxing 3D")
NSG sp. z o.o (Game intros)
PLAY Sp z o.o. (games for kids)
Kino Polska (worked on first tv's graphic design)