MARK TAPIO KINES
Writer | Director | Designer
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EXPERIENCE
Writer/Designer, 1K Studios, Burbank, CA 2005-present
Freelance. Creative writer, interactive content for Blu-ray releases of True Blood, Treme (HBO), Sherlock Holmes, Watchmen, Terminator Salvation (Warner Bros.), Star Trek (2009), Iron Man 1 & 2, Braveheart, Cloverfield, Indiana Jones 4 (Paramount), Letters to Juliet (Summit). Lead designer, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory interactive DVD games (Warner Bros.).

Writer, Picture Mill, Hollywood, CA 2008-present
Freelance. Concept writer, theatrical credit sequences for The Other Guys (Sony) and What's Your Number (Fox). Concept writer, montage sequence for A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (New Line). Screenwriter, special feature for Blu-ray release of A Bug's Life (Disney/Pixar).

Creative Director/Designer, Medialocate, Pacific Grove, CA 2005-present
Freelance. Conceived and designed this successful language translation company's web site, brochure, direct mail campaigns. Wrote, designed, and directed an animated comedy promo video for the company.

Concept Designer/Art Director, Walt Disney Imagineering, Glendale, CA 2006
Freelance. Worked with senior Imagineering staff to conceive and pitch Storm Struck, an attraction at Epcot Center. Created conceptual designs as well as 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, CA1998-2002
Full time. 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
Full time. 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
Full time. 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).

Freelance writing, design, and animation for a large number of companies. Ask for client list.

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

ABILITIES
Guru-level proficiency in Photoshop and Illustrator. Proficient in After Effects, InDesign and Final Cut.

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

Won Grand Prize ($10,000) in a Getty Images-sponsored international film competition for the 60-second short The Closest Thing to Time Travel, 2006.

Gave lectures on film and/or design at USC, UCLA, ArtCenter (Pasadena), Columbia College (Chicago), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Flanders International Film Festival (Belgium), Norwegian International Film Festival, VSDA (Las Vegas), motion (Albuquerque), and HATCHfest (Montana).

Was profiled in feature articles in The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe and The San Jose Mercury, as well as several television programs, for raising $150,000 in investments via a self-designed web site for the film Foreign Correspondents.