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Employment

Sony Pictures Imageworks
Digital Matte Artist / Texture Painter
 2007- present

Industrial Light & Magic
Senior Lighting Technical Director
1996 - 2006

Pacific Ocean Post
Senior 3D Artist
1994 - 1996

The Post Group
3D Artist
1991 – 1992, 1994

Universal Studios / Amblin Entertainment
3D Texture Artist
1993

Apogee Productions
3D Artist / Electronic Storyboard Artist
1991 – 1992

 

Lectures / Panel Discussions

1998
Los Angeles Siggraph presentation at UCLA
http://los-angeles.siggraph.org/Newsletters/1998_12_08.html
"Technical Director Symposium"
Jennifer represented Industrial Light & Magic

1993
"Women In Film"
American Film Institute
Panel Discussion

 

Publications (1992 - 1999)

Millimeter, Daily Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Cinefex, Star Wars Insider, Post Magazine, Film & Video, Videography, Shoot Magazine, American Cinematographer

        Saving Private Ryan 1998
collection of photographs by David James

Becoming a Computer Animator (hard copy non-fiction) 1994
Featured Article: Jennifer McKnew: 3D Computer Animator

Video Toaster User Magazine (hard copy non-fiction) 1994
Featured Article: Jennifer McKnew: American Music Awards

 

Professional Affiliations

1994-1996
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Voting member Prime Time & Daytime Emmy Awards

 
Software Experience 

Proprietary in-house software packages at ILM and Sony Pictures Imageworks

3D lighting / rendering

Texture painting

Digital matte painting

Digital compositing

Tracking / stabilization

Articulate roto

Maya, Photoshop, Bodypaint, C4D, Lightwave 3D, Soft Image, Alias Power Animator, Electric Image, After Effects, Shake, Matador, Painter, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Illustrator, Quark Express

 
Education

UCLA, Los Angeles, Ca
Bachelor of Arts, Design 1990
Golden Key National Honor Society