Timothy Eustace Major

About

I am a Senior Environment Artist and TD who creates photo-real digital environments for high end visual effect films.

This includes asset creation, matte painting, lighting, processing photogrammetry and lidar, and working closely with the pipeline department, CG Supervisors and other Artists to maintain, refine and improve environment generation of any scale.

I love my career, and I am constantly improving and expanding on various technologies and techniques through regular R&D both in and out of studio. I also love to share and develop techniques that help speed up workflows and increase the quality of work being created.

I am hardworking, self-motivated, productive, and passionate about my work. I always enjoy working with the teams and people I meet in the industry, and am capable of working with and without supervision.

Skills

Software proficiency

Maya

ZBrush

Mudbox

TopoGun

UVLayout

Photoshop

Nuke

Vue

World Machine

Unreal Engine

Substance 3D Designer

Photoscan

Houdini

Mari

V-Ray

Modo

SpeedTree

Terragen

Clarisse iFX

RealityCapture

Productions

- Movie
  TBA
- Year
  2023
- Role
  Senior Layout TD
- Company
  Wētā FX
- Movie
  TBA
- Year
  2023
- Role
  Senior Layout TD
- Company
  Wētā FX
- Movie
  Avatar: The Way of Water
- Year
  2022
- Role
  Senior Layout/Environment TD
- Company
  Wētā FX
- TV Production
  She-Hulk
- Year
  2022
- Role
  Digital Matte Painter
- Company
  Wētā FX
- TV Production
  Hawkeye
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Digital Matte Painter
- Company
  Wētā FX
- Movie
  The Tomorrow War
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Digital Matte Painter
- Company
  Wētā FX
- Movie
  Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Digital Matte Painter
- Company
  Wētā FX
- Movie
  Eternals
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Digital Matte Painter
- Company
  Wētā FX
- Movie
  Finch
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Lead Environment Artist
- Company
  Mill Film
- Movie
  Mulan
- Year
  2020
- Role
  Environment Modeller
- Company
  Wētā FX
- Movie
  Mortal Engines
- Year
  2018
- Role
  Matte Painter
- Company
  Wētā FX
- Movie
  Aquaman
- Year
  2018
- Role
  Environment Artist
- Company
  Method Studios
- Movie
  Tomb Raider
- Year
  2018
- Role
  Environment Artist
- Company
  Iloura
- Movie
  Jumanji
- Year
  2017
- Role
  Environment Artist
- Company
  Iloura
- Movie
  Jungle
- Year
  2017
- Role
  Environment Artist
- Company
  Cutting Edge
- Movie
  Gods of Egypt
- Year
  2016
- Role
  Environment Artist
- Company
  Rising Sun Pictures
- Movie
  Prometheus
- Year
  2012
- Role
  Modeller
- Company
  FuelVFX
- Movie
  Mad Max: Fury Road
- Year
  2015
- Role
  Environment Artist
- Company
  Kennedy Miller Mitchell
- Movie
  Ted 2
- Year
  2015
- Role
  Modeller & Matchmover
- Company
  Iloura
- TV Production
  Game of Thrones, Season 7, The Spoils of War
- Year
  2017
- Role
  Assets
- Company
  Iloura
- Movie
  Insurgent
- Year
  2015
- Role
  CG Artist
- Company
  Animal Logic

Experience

Senior Environment/Layout TD at Weta Digital
Wellington, New Zealand
April 2022 - Present
Building full CG large scale environments and set dressing for feature films and tv series
Digital Matte Painter/Environment Artist at Weta Digital
Wellington, New Zealand
July 2020 - April 2022
Environment Artist at Contractor
Australia
January 2010 - Present
Companies -

Weta Digital

Flying Bark Productions

Mill Film

Method Studios

Iloura

Cutting Edge

Rising Sun Pictures

Animal Logic

KMM

Fuel VFX

Roles -

Environment Modeller/Artist

Matte Painter

Layout/Environment Artist

3D Modeller

Environment Generalist

Highest level of production experience -

Lead Environment Artist