// DreamWorks / Sony Pictures Veteran Matt Steele Joins Steelehouse

Matt Steele is a visual effects and CG animation veteran with over sixteen years of professional
experience in film, television and games. Mr. Steele most recently served as a senior technical
animator at Sony Pictures Imageworks, where he was one of two character finaling artists, on
over 300 shots for the summer release, Green Lantern. In addition, he was a senior facial setup
artist on the upcoming Sony Pictures Animation release, Arthur.

Prior to that, he spent seven years as a senior character technical director at DreamWorks
Animation, where he was an expert in facial animation systems, deformation systems, and
rigging tool development. During his time at DreamWorks, he worked on Shark Tale (2004),
Flushed Away (2006), Kung Fu Panda (2007), Bee Movie (2008), How To Train Your Dragon
(2010) and Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011).

Matt also provided consulting services for the world-renowned game company Infinity Ward, where he
developed the animation and performance capture blending system used on all titles starting with
Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Matt is an expert in animation tool development, rigging, and
facial anatomy. He is also well versed in all other aspects of CGI and production, including
animation, modeling, lighting, rendering, compositing, CG supervision, on-set VFX supervision,
and cinematography.

He is a published Siggraph author, a member of ASIFA and the Animation Guild, and one of the
founding members of the open source Maya Python library project RBE.

Matt is joining Steelehouse as the CG Supervisor with responsibilities for CGI pipeline design
and development and adding his formidable skills and experience to our VFX and Animation
team.