BIOGRAPHY

Alp Altiner is currently working in the Film Industry as a Visual Fx Art Director. He is mainly known with his Photoreal Matte Painting work for Movies. He currently is working as Visual Development Artist/Art Director for various Film, Commercial, Video Game  Projects. He also continues creating Photo Real Visual Development concept art for many well established Video Game Developers/Publishers. He has been worldwide published as an award winning artist in the Ballisitic Matte Painting book selling over 20 thousand copies worldwide

Alp is both a 2D and 3D artist with over ten years of solid experience in Film, Video Games, and the creation of Conceptual design, Photo real Matte paintings, as well as complex and technical 3D prodcution pipleline in the creation of digital environments.

Also a traditionally trained artist, with the skill of illustrating, characters, creatures, environments, and other conceptual related designs, Alp has the understanding of both traditional and digital worlds, delivering his fresh, and unique designs for various film, and video game projects. He is also experienced working on set cosley with the Film Director in the creation of set design, mood, lighting and texture related development.

Alp is fluent in over 25 software packages, and is a tech guru, who is always learning additional tools being developed for the next gen artists.

Please visit his various galleries to see his diverse skillset, with a wide variety and range of work on this website.

Alp Altiner started his career as a Graphic Designer in Seattle Washington, and created Print and Multimedia related projects, using Illustrator, After Effects, Director, as well as Dreamweaver and Flash for many web design related clients.

His strong traditional drawing skills helped him quickly get conceptual design work in the Video Game Development field as a Conceptual Designer and started working for many studios including Monolith, Microsoft and others.

He also worked as a professional Comic Book Artist, and had the opportunity to train under some of the best artists such as Todd Mc Farlane, Marc Silvestri, and many others, where he gained extensive knowledge for story telling and speed in translating his thoughts on paper. He end up working for all the major Comic Book Publishers including, Marvel, DC, Todd Mc Farlanne, Top Cow, Image Comics and many others.

His love and passion for cinematography, and several months of hard work and creating up a portfolio, he was offered a Matte Painting position at Digital Domain, one of the biggest Visual FX Studios in the US, and started creating many concepts and Matte Paintings for many movies. He later trained under Syd Dutton, one of the greatest traditional Matte Painters, owner of Illusion Arts VFX, where he learned the techniques from the masters creating photo real environments for Film.

Alp Altiner is a tech guru and very passionate about Film making and is constantly studying new things and quickly learning software packages related to the creation of Visual FX. Currently he is also very knowledgeable as a 3D artist, using Maya, Zbrush, Mudbox, Vue 6, Terragen and many others.

Today, Alp Altiner has solid production experience, on set and in complex production environments, and brings his years of experience for any client, with a positive attitude, drive, and energy, for solving problems and creating solutions for new and great challenges that this Industry requires. He is currently working as a VFX Art Director/Supervisor, and continues sharing his knowledge with others, and always creating new ideas, and approach to visual development.

Please visit his Client list to see the variety of work he has delivered over the years.

Alp Altiner also taught " Advanced Photoshop techniques " at the ART CENTER COLLEGE AND DESIGN in Pasadena California, one of the best colleges in the US, known for Industrial and Conceptual design. He also has taught many Matte Painting Workshops at this college, sharing his knowledge and techniques with his students. If you are interested in Workshops and other related services, please click here for more detailed information.

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Los Angeles, California

USA