Mark Tapio Kines

MARK TAPIO KINES
Writer | Director | Designer
Serving the L.A. area and beyond since 1992
(310) 365-7684
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EXPERIENCE
Writer/Designer, 1K Studios, Burbank, CA 2005-present
Freelance. Creative writer, interactive content for Blu-ray releases of Terminator Salvation, Watchmen, Iron Man, Braveheart, Indiana Jones 4, Cloverfield and the Harry Potter and Star Trek films. Lead designer, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory interactive DVD games.

Writer, Picture Mill, Hollywood, CA 2008
Freelance. Screenwriter, short animated extra for Pixar's A Bug's Life Blu-ray disc.

Art Director/Information Architect, Soylent Communications, Mountain View, CA 2006-2008
Freelance. Designed and created user interfaces for online games and activities including NNDB Mapper and Rotten Dead Pool.

Concept Designer/Art Director, Walt Disney Imagineering, Glendale, CA 2006
Freelance. Worked with senior Imagineering staff to conceive and pitch a potential attraction at Epcot Center. Created conceptual designs for the attraction, then designed final presentation of concept.

Film Consultant/Director, Institute for Creative Technologies, Marina del Rey, CA 2004
Freelance. Oversaw script visualization for Leaders, a virtual reality project sponsored by USC, Paramount Pictures and the U.S. Army. Storyboarded over 200 pages of script.

Art Director, Paramount Digital Entertainment (Paramount Pictures), Hollywood, CA 1998-2002
Fulltime. Designed web sites for Paramount's television properties, including Star Trek, Entertainment Tonight, Frasier, JAG, Charmed and over a dozen others, as well as the studio site itself. Oversaw complete site redesigns, directed both in-house art department and developers, created thousands of daily production graphics, designed and animated hundreds of banner ads, designed print ad campaigns for magazines, one sheets, postcards, etc.

Senior Designer, BoxTop Interactive/iXL, Los Angeles, CA 1996-1998
Fulltime. Lead design/concept on web sites for Sega, Mattel, NBC (Conan O'Brien), Major League Soccer, LA Galaxy and the Internal Revenue Service.

Lead Designer, Digital Planet, Culver City, CA 1995-1996
Fulltime. Lead design/concept on web sites for Universal Pictures (12 Monkeys, Waterworld, Happy Gilmore), MGM/UA (GoldenEye) and Allstate. Designer on site for Philips Media (Burn:Cycle).

Graphic Designer, Viridis Corporation, Los Angeles, CA 1994-1995
Fulltime. Designed CD-ROM game ECO: East Africa.

Art Director, USC, Los Angeles, CA 1994
Fulltime. Designed CD-ROM about USC's new multimedia center and programs.

Graphic Designer, Total Vision, Santa Monica, CA 1992-1993
Fulltime. Designed award-winning CD-ROM Titanic: An Interactive Exploration.

Freelance print, web and logo design/art direction for a large number of companies. Ask for client list.

EDUCATION
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA 1992
BFA in Film/Video, emphasis on experimental animation.

ABILITIES
Guru-level proficiency in Photoshop and Illustrator. Proficient in After Effects, Flash, Quark, BBEdit, InDesign, Final Cut Pro, Word, Excel.

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Wrote and directed two live action feature films (Foreign Correspondents, 1999, Claustrophobia, 2004), the latter sold and distributed domestically by Lionsgate.

Won Grand Prize in Getty Images' international film competition "The Next Big Idea" for the short film The Closest Thing to Time Travel (2006).

Lectured on both film and design at USC, UCLA, ArtCenter, Columbia College in Chicago, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, as well as the Flanders International Film Festival in Ghent, Belgium and the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, Norway.

Was featured in articles in several major newspapers and magazines for raising $150,000 in film investments via a self-designed website for the film Foreign Correspondents.