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Matthew McKay

Matthew McKay

Freelance 3d/Multimedia Lecturer

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Lighting Technical Director at Industrial Light & Magic

  • Education

    • Computer Graphics College

      2001 - 2003
      Diploma

    • University of Western Sydney

      1992 - 1994

  • Experience

    • SAE Institute

      Dec 2001 - Aug 2004
      Freelance 3d/Multimedia Lecturer

      Before I had completed my course I was offered a position as a lecturer for the Multimedia and 3D diploma course at the Computer Graphics College in Sydney. Working to an existing course outline I was responsible for delivering course content and maintaining student handouts.

    • Love Monkey Media

      Jan 2002 - Apr 2013
      Lead 3D /Generalist TD / Partner

    • SAE Institute Ljubljana

      Aug 2004 - Apr 2005
      Media Co-ordinator

      Responsible for creating and maintaining the Multimedia and 3D diploma course in Ljubljana Slovenia EU and lecturing at the Sydney campus. Responsible for creation and delivery of course content, lecture notes and student handouts. Managing guest Speakers and specialist Lecturers. Creation of marketing material.

    • Virtual Vision

      Jul 2005 - Sept 2005
      3D Animator

      High end architectural images and animations

    • Zspace

      Sept 2005 - Nov 2005
      3d Animator

      Skating on Thin Ice, Hi 5 Opening Titles and Word plays

    • Kapow Pictures

      Nov 2005 - Feb 2006
      3D Animator

      Casper Scare Schools Movie Texturing,lighting and Modeling.

    • The Lab Sydney

      Feb 2006 - Jun 2006
      3d animator

      Understanding Money, Upside Down Show, Earky Perky Promo, Comping Erky Perky

    • Zspace

      Jun 2006 - Jul 2006
      Freelance 3D Animator

      Hi 5 opening titles, Discovery channel

    • Promotion Studios

      Aug 2006 - Aug 2006
      Freelance 3D Animator

      Opening graphics for the Asian Games

    • Fuel

      Aug 2006 - Sept 2006
      Freelance 3D Animator

      Tiger Beer Commercial

    • Emerald City

      Sept 2006 - Nov 2006
      Freelance 3D Artist

      Voda Phone, Visa Debit, Wutaxi

    • MonkeyLab

      Jan 2007 - Feb 2007
      Freelance Animator

      Character Animator - Coke

    • Bruce Dunlop

      Feb 2007 - May 2007
      Freelance 3D Animator

      SonySky Sports

    • Post Modern Sydney

      Jun 2007 - Jul 2007
      3d Animator

      Olay

    • Zealot Productions

      Mar 2008 - Jul 2008
      3d Designer

      Hole in the WallDesigned and created 3D Title sequence for TV Servies. Freemantle Media & Channel 9.Designed and created all in show elements.Font, Score Board, Bugs, ReplayWorking Solo delivered

    • Beyond Television Productions

      Feb 2009 - May 2009
      3D Animator

      Weaponizers3 x Pilot Episodes for Discovery ChannelDesigned and created in show graphics, 2d bugs, font and lower thrids. Working with 1 other animator.Off Site.

    • Cutting Edge

      May 2009 - May 2009
      Freelance 3D Designer

      v8 Super Car Telstra 30 sec TVCCreated 3D content from supplied elements.

    • Hackett Films

      Jun 2009 - Apr 2011
      Freelance Senior Maya TD & Motion Graphics Designer.

    • Resolution Design

      May 2011 - Sept 2011
      Freelance Senior Maya TD Lighting/Generalist.

    • Sixty40

      Aug 2012 - Feb 2013
      Freelance Lead 3D TD

    • Nine Entertainment Co.

      Mar 2013 - Nov 2017
      Senior Maya TD - Senior 3D Artist

    • Seven Network

      Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
      3D Generalist

      3D Generalist - Promo Dept

    • Plastic Wax

      Mar 2018 - Dec 2018
      Senior Lighting TD

    • Channel 7 Media

      Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
      3D Designer

      3D Generalist - Promo Dept

    • MPC

      Apr 2019 - Dec 2019
      Key Lighting Artists

    • Stage23 Pty Limited

      Feb 2020 - Jul 2020
      Senior Lighting Lead

    • Cutting Edge

      Jul 2020 - Sept 2020
      Senior Lighting/Generalist

      Freelance Project - Infiniti

    • Creative Cupids

      Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
      Senior VFX Lighting

    • Industrial Light & Magic

      Mar 2021 - now
      Senior Lighting Technical Director

      LOTR Rings of Power Season 1Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom The CreatorAshoka Season 1The Boys Season 4

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Matthew McKay
      Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode Visual Effects Society Jan 2023 This award is to honor the achievement of the visual effects within a single episode of a photoreal episodic broadcast series, a mini-series or Special where the visual effects are a visible, essential, and integral part of the story and play a principal and active role in the show. A rule of thumb for defining whether a series would be considered effects-driven would be to ask if the story could be told without the active participation of extensive digital effects, Special Effects… Show more This award is to honor the achievement of the visual effects within a single episode of a photoreal episodic broadcast series, a mini-series or Special where the visual effects are a visible, essential, and integral part of the story and play a principal and active role in the show. A rule of thumb for defining whether a series would be considered effects-driven would be to ask if the story could be told without the active participation of extensive digital effects, Special Effects, effects-enhanced stunts, practical effects, or nonhuman CG characters. The general public would easily identify the VFX in effects-driven series, whether they are made for pay cable, standard cable, broadcast, or streaming. Show less
    • Awarded to Matthew McKay
      Emmy® for Outstanding Achievement in Main Title Design the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Jun 2007 Creative Director, Mark Bowey, won the Emmy® for Outstanding Achievement in Main Title Design with his title sequence for the Umbilical Brothers children’s programme, “The Upside Down Show” at the 34th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards.The Upside Down show, which features the anarchic, zany adventures of the Umbilical Brothers (David Collins and Shane Dundas) and their ‘invisible’ remote control, makes playful use of ‘lo-fi’ visual effects and in-camera trickery, based around… Show more Creative Director, Mark Bowey, won the Emmy® for Outstanding Achievement in Main Title Design with his title sequence for the Umbilical Brothers children’s programme, “The Upside Down Show” at the 34th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards.The Upside Down show, which features the anarchic, zany adventures of the Umbilical Brothers (David Collins and Shane Dundas) and their ‘invisible’ remote control, makes playful use of ‘lo-fi’ visual effects and in-camera trickery, based around the ‘Umbies’ visual and mimed jokes.Bowey said, “For the titles I teamed up with The Umbies’ latest creation- ‘Action Fingers’, a great invention where their hands run around on ‘finger legs’, saving socks trapped in washing machines and so on. The title sequence was a very satisfying collaboration between everyone in the show.We started with the premise of featuring ‘Action Fingers’ for the titles and the boys then built a routine around my boards, which we shot in one continuous take”.In addition to the titles created by Bowey, the 3D team at The LaB sydney turned the show’s logo into 3D. In the finished sequence, the ‘Action Fingers’ dash across the screen, spinning around the logo and scattering the 3D letters which make up the titles in their wake.Bowey continued, “The Umbie’s hands were shot in an entirely green screen environment with each Umbie controlling one hand, while the camera tracks with them as they charge along the obstacle course of letters and logos.Because the hands cross each other David needed to be fully suited up in a skin-tight lycra green suit, which made an amusing sight, but got very hot for him on set. I’m delighted for all the team involved to have won a Daytime Emmy, I’m just glad I didn’t have to wear the lycra suit to the awards.”For The Lab:Mark Bowey: Title Director/DesignerPrue Fletcher: ProducerMatthew McKay: 3D TDBlink Films:Michael Bourchier, Executive Producer Show less