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Gizem Ersavas is a Concept Designer and Digital Matte Artist from Los Angeles, CA currently living in Vancouver, BC.
She has worked on major feature films such as Bill Condon's Beauty and the Beast and Bryan Singer's X-Men: Apocalypse as well as Oscar-winning Life of Pi and VES Award-winning Boardwalk Empire Season 3.
She is providing a wide range of work from concept design to hyper-real matte paintings, detailed presentation artwork to instructions provided by client / Production Designer / VFX Supervisor to develop the design and look of shots as well as in early stages of Pre-Production working closely with the Production Designer.
Gizem graduated from the Munich University of Applied Sciences in Communications Design with Bachelor Honors and finished her Masters in Production Design at the Munich University of Television and Film. She received a one-year full scholarship (DAAD - German Academic Exchange service - the largest funding organization in the world supporting the international exchange of scholars) and attended the Maya Fast Track program at Gnomon School of Visual Effects and several individual courses with focus on Matte Painting and Concept Art.
Gizem graduated from the Munich University of Applied Sciences in Communications Design with Bachelor Honors and finished her Masters in Production Design at the Munich University of Television and Film. She received a one-year full scholarship (DAAD - German Academic Exchange service - the largest funding organization in the world supporting the international exchange of scholars) and attended the Maya Fast Track program at Gnomon School of Visual Effects and several individual courses with focus on Matte Painting and Concept Art.
For a more detailed resume please contact at gizem@gizemersavas.com
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SELECTION of PROJECTS
THE SEA BEAST - ANIMATED FEATURE FILM / SR MATTE PAINTER at Sony Pictures Imageworks [2022]
VIVO - ANIMATED FEATURE FILM / SR MATTE PAINTER at Sony Pictures Imageworks [2021]
ANGRY BIRDS 2 - ANIMATED FEATURE FILM / SR MATTE PAINTER at Sony Pictures Imageworks [2019]
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3 - ANIM. FEATURE FILM / SR MATTE PAINTER at Sony Pic. Imageworks [2018]
THE KITCHEN - FEATURE FILM / SR MATTE PAINTER at Method Studios [2019]
SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING - FEATURE FILM / MATTE PAINTER at Digital Domain 3.0 [2017]
THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS - FEATURE FILM / MATTE PAINTER at Digital Domain 3.0 [2017]
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - FEATURE FILM / ENVIRONMENT ARTIST at Digital Domain 3.0 [2016]
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE - FEATURE FILM / ENVIRONMENT ARTIST at Digital Domain 3.0 [2015]
PAN - FEATURE FILM / MATTE PAINTER at Scanline VFX [2015]
INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE - FEATURE FILM / CONCEPT ARTIST at Trixter [2014]
WHITE HOUSE DOWN - FEATURE FILM / MATTE PAINTER at Crazy Horse Effects [CHE] [2013]
IDENTITY THIEF - FEATURE FILM / MATTE PAINTER at Crazy Horse Effects [CHE] [2013]
GANGSTER SQUAD - FEATURE FILM / MATTE PAINTER at Crazy Horse Effects [CHE] [2012]
BOARDWALK EMPIRE - TV SERIES SEASON 3 / MATTE PAINTER at Crazy Horse Effects [CHE] [2012}
EDUCATION
ADVANCED MENTORSHIP with JOHN PARK / CONCEPT DESIGN - Brainstorm Burbank, CA
MAYA FAST TRACK / CONCEPT ART / MATTE PAINING - Gnomon School of Visual Effects, CA
MASTERS / PRODUCTION DESIGN - University of Television and Film, Germany
BACHELOR HONORS / COMMUNICATIONS DESIGN - University of Applied Sciences, Germany
SKILLS
Matte painting - Concept Design - Nuke Projections - Layout - Modeling - Texturing
traditional / digital Painting and Drawing, traditional Sculpting and Model Making
analog / digital Photography, Graphic Design, Typography, traditional 2D Cell Animation
traditional / digital Painting and Drawing, traditional Sculpting and Model Making
analog / digital Photography, Graphic Design, Typography, traditional 2D Cell Animation
SOFTWARE
Photoshop - Nuke - Maya - Mari - ZBrush - Speedtree
LANGUAGES
German - English - Turkish - French