Kim Vongbunyong

Texture Painting Supervisor

Western Massachusetts, USA
kim.vby@gmail.com
www.kimvby.com


WORK EXPERIENCE

Industrial Light & Magic
San Francisco, CA, USA
Mar 2014 - May 2018 | Dec 2020 - Present

Texture Supervisor
Unannounced Feature
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
Skeleton Crew (2024)

Texture Supervisor and Lead Artist
The Mandalorian: S3 (2023)

Senior Texture Artist
Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
The Book of Boba Fett (2021)
Hawkeye (2021)
Aquaman (2018)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Warcraft (2016)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016) 
Terminator Genisys (2015)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Attractions for Walt Disney Imagineering
Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run - Proof of Concept
Soarin' Around the World & Over the Horizon
Pirates of the Caribbean; Battle for the Sunken Treasure
Iron Man Experience


Southern California, USA
2010 - 2014
Blizzard Cinematics | DreamWorks Animation | Digital Domain | Framestore | The Mill | Team One Advertising | Zoic | Imaginary Forces | Scholar | Prologue Films | Superfad | BL:ND


EDUCATION


Studio
Crescendo

Santa Ana, CA
Sept 2018
Peter Chan's Gouache Painting Workshop
   
CG Workshops
Los Angeles, CA
Oct 2012 – Dec 2012
Certificate: Creature Texture Painting in Mari


Otis College Of Art And Design
Los Angeles, CA
2007 – 2011
B.F.A. Digital Media with Honors
Dean's List
Institutional Grant
   
Chiang Mai International School
Chiang Mai, Thailand
High School Diploma 2007


AWARDS
 

Visual Effects Society Award
   Outstanding Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project:
   Deepwater Horizon (2017)
          Shared with:
          Jean Bolte
          Kelvin Lau
          Kevin Sprout

CES 2020 Best of Innovation: Gaming Award
   St. Noire: An AI Murder Mystery Game

Design Ignites Change: 2010 Implementation Award
   Haiti Bridge
 Otis College of Art and Design

 

FEATURED

Panelist for Women in Animation
Finding the Force on the Path to Leadership at Lucasfilm

Gizmodo
The Secret Iron Man 3 Titles You Didn't See

Cartoon Brew
Three Legged Legs Light Up Georgia

Motionographer - Dailies
Three Legged Legs: Bullet Art