Empowering Teams to Craft Exceptional Experiences

With a wealth of experience from the video game and film industries, Terry Matthes excels as a Technical Artist specializing in Maya, Houdini, Python and the Unreal Engine.

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Extensive Production Experience

From his early days as a QA Technician through his roles as a Render Wrangler, Technical Director and Technical Artist, Terry has left an indelible mark on every production, blending technical know-how with ambitious aesthetic goals to help create immersive experiences that captivate audiences.

Kitty Katz
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Kitty Katz

Role: Compositing TD
| Client: Netflix

Mulan
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Mulan

Role: Assistant TD
| Client: Disney

Deadpool 2
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Deadpool 2

Role: Render Wrangler
| Client: 20th Century Fox | Marvel

Dumbo
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Dumbo

Role: Render Wrangler
| Client: Disney

Kitty Katz
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Kitty Katz

Role: Compositing TD
| Client: Netflix

Mulan
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Mulan

Role: Assistant TD
| Client: Disney

Deadpool 2
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Deadpool 2

Role: Render Wrangler
| Client: 20th Century Fox | Marvel

Dumbo
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Dumbo

Role: Render Wrangler
| Client: Disney

A Powerhouse Toolkit

Terry’s toolkit spanning art, 3D and programming, enables him to collaborate seamlessly across departments. In addition to his technical expertise and scripting skills, Terry has had the privilege of collaborating on projects utilizing Grooming, MoCap & Photogrammetry technologies.

Research and Development

Where Terry works out his creative curiosities with posts and projects that explore different tools & techniques.

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V-Ray Brasserie

I took some time over the last few months to rework a scene I had modeled last year. I've redone all the lighting and materials in Vray as opposed to Mental Ray. A big part of this project was crushing render times down while retaining quality in...
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CG Fruit Bowl

RenderMan Fruitbowl

The models for everything in the scene were taken from 3DRender.com as part of their Lighting Challenge #1. I wanted to visit this challenge once more as a test of the free Renderman render plugin for Maya. The challenge is that you are given the...
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Blackberry Panacotta Render in VRay

V-Ray Panacotta

Food is something I've wanted to render for a while. It seemed like a good rendering challenge given how familiar people are with the look of food. When I think of what really sells an object in a scene as "real" it's the surface detail. I could...
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