Profile

My name is Albert Szostkiewicz. I am quick learning 3D Animator passionate about my work with almost 8 years of commercial experience, working in biggest Polish post production houses. I have broad range of experience working directly with clients as well as onset supervising. I’m certified by Next Limit as expert RealFlow user.

Commercial experience

Platige Image, FX TD, FX Supervisor, poland – 2009.11
Particle simulations, Fur, Shader development, scripting, FX Supervisor
Working on software: Houdini, Realflow, 3DMax, Maya, boujou, pftrack

Lunapark, FX animator, fx supervisor, poland – 2008.08 – 2009.11
Rendering, Simulations, Supervising on set.
Worked on software: Houdini, Realflow, Maya.

Alien FX, FX animator, Project Supervisor, fx supervisor, poland – 2007.02 – 2008.08
Supervising projects, Rendering, Simulations, Supervising on set
Worked on software: 3D Studio Max, Adobe After Effect, Apple Shake, NextLimit Realflow, Luxology Modo

TPS, camera assistant, fx supervisor, poland – 2006.03 – 2007.07
Rapid camera (NAC-K4) assistant, supervising on set, fx artist.
Worked on software: Adobe After Effect, Apple Shake, Final Cut pro, Newtek Lightwave, Luxology Modo.

Freelance – 2005 – 2010
Worked as a freelancer with many polish post production companies
Hilighted projects:
Platige Image (KATYŃ, compositing, Apple SHAKE)
Badi-Badi (FX animator, Autodesk MAYA)
Nano fx (FX Animator, fluid animation for Polish booth on Saragossa expo 2008 , Realflow, 3D Max)
Douglas Fisher (Made many Realflow scripts)

TVN24, Motion animator, poland – 2005.09 – 2006.01
One of three motion animators in one of biggest polish tv stations – TVN group
Worked on software: Apple Final Cut Studio (final cut, life type), Adobe After effect, dodatkowo Newtek Lightwave, Apple Shake, Luxology Modo.

Lightcraft, 3D Animator, poland – 2004.03 – 2006.03
Responsible for creating 3D animations and composting for commercials as a one person as well as a part of very small team
Worked on software: Newtek Lightwave, Luxology Modo, Newtek VideoToaster, Apple Shake.

Education

Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw/Poland – 2008 -
Warsaw school of advertisement / Computer Graphics- 2001 – 2003

RECOMMENDATIONS:

“Albert has always been a great help at the shortest of notice and the most tricky of RealFlow projects. Albert made it very easy for us to use his remote service, even troubleshooting was never a problem, and I could always guarantee to my clients that he would deliver in budget and on time. I would certainly highly recommend Albert’s work and look forward to working with him again for future projects!”
Christina Berenguer (Project Manager at Douglas Fisher company)

“It was a real pleasure to have Albert as a member of the Lightcraft team. He is a skilled animator with many strengths within a various 3D roles”
Marta Kamienska (Production Coordinator at Lightcraft, currently Film Office Manager at MPC)

“I have had the pleasure of knowing Albert Szostkiewicz for the last five years. We’ve been working together in two animation studios (Badi Badi fx , AlienFx ) and during his time here, Albert was always enthusiastic about his work, for sure his work is his passion. He has great skills and people loves work with him – he’s also a fantastic person !”
Gosia Zaczek (Supervisor at Badi-Badi, currently Producer and Supervisor at AlienFX)

Worked on movies:
2010 The Essence of Killing (Fx artst)
2009 Long live the Funeral!!! (Fx artst)
2008 Magic Tree (Fluid artist, Digital Compositing)
2007 Katyn (Digital Compositing) [OSCAR nominated movie]
2006 Job czyli ostatnia szara komorka (CG FX)
2006 Max Schmeling – Der Boxer (HiSpeed Camera assistant)

Main tools I am/was using at work:

3D packages: Houdini, Maya, 3D Max, Modo, Lightwave
External renderers: Renderman, Final Render
Compositing: Shake, After Effects, Nuke
2D: Photoshop, Illustrator
Other: Pftrack, Boujou, Python language, basics of C++
Unix user: Ubuntu/CentOS and MacOS.

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