Experience

Freelance CG Artist

• Animation
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Owner/Artist

  • 2012 - Present

  Expert Texturing, Lighting and Compositing Artist and CG Supervisor with over 15 years of successful project engagements for numerous high profile clients. Demonstrated ability pushing the boundaries of visual animation along with leading teams successfully through any project from a TV commercial through a feature length animated film. Outstanding at pipeline and workflow development especially for texturing, lighting, and compositing. Proven leader, with a traditional art degree and excellent eye that influences all her work whether as a supervisor or the creator. See more of her current work at www.ShanaKoenigCG.com Show less



Shana Koenig - Illuminated Sculptures

• Greater Los Angeles Area

• Owner/Artist

  • 2011 - Present

  Shana is currently working in fine art making Illuminated Sculptures along with freelance animation. Her 3d talents and extraordinary eye have enabled her to create captivating proposals both in 3D and Photoshop that have won her numerous commissions. Recently she was the featured artist for “Scottsdale - Fall for the Arts” with a massive public art installation in and for the first time above the Downtown Waterfront Canal in Scottsdale. Her work was featured on the cover of Where Magazine. Koenig has also had the honor to be the only artist asked to do two installations for Glow 2013, commissioned by the city of Santa Monica. She has been a Honorium recipient or paid artist for Electric Daisy Carnival, Lighting in a Bottle, Lucidity, Drawing on the Moon. In addition she has shown her work for free to the delight of her fans at many Venice Art Crawls and Downtown LA art walks. See more of her Illuminated Sculpture work at www.ShanaKoenig.com Show less



Shana Koenig CG

• Greater Los Angeles Area

• Freelance

  • 2011 - Present

  Freelance CG artist specializing in Lighting, Compositing and Look Development Freelance CG artist specializing in Lighting, Compositing and Look Development



AI Developer

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CG Supervisor

  • 2004 - 2010

  Shana worked with Prana Studios for over 5 years as the CG supervisor. She helped Prana grow from 50 employees to over 800. While there she supervised all of the following: Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure (Disney) Chubb Chubbs save X-mas (Sony) Hoodwinked (Weinstein Co. - Lighting, Fur, Effects, Fixes, Rendering, Compositing. Modeling, texturing, and animation done by Kanbar Animation.) Dinoworld (Ride filmed for a theme park in Japan) She supervised some of the following: I-Witness Tinkerbell Shana also supervised many test projects which cannot be disclosed to her NDA. She also was responsible for creating many production pipelines for texturing, lighting, fur, rendering and composting with very detailed tutorial that all team member would learn from to constantly push the limits of technology to create beautiful art on budget. Shana worked directly with the texturing, lighting, and composting leads to train them to produce the best art with cutting edge techniques she developed. They were then able to pass this knowledge onto their teams. Shana was responsible for the final look and frame of every project she was on. She worked directly with the Producer and all team leads to find the best solutions for large scale issues, such as crowds, very complex texturing and lighting effects that would be used for the production (pixie dust, hair, fur) Show less



Tigar Hare Studios

• Greater Los Angeles Area

• CG Supervisor and Texturing/Lighting/Composting Lead

  • 1999 - 2004

  CG Supervisor Temple of Elemental Evil Twisted Metal TBS Comedy Club Promo Funky Groovy Alien Racers Texturing, Lighting, and Composting Driven Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Star Trek - Nemesis (opening Title) Friends Inside Natural Selection Shorties Celestial Pictures Hot Wheels Cat in the Hat Animation, Texturing, Lighting Composting Junior CG Supervisor Temple of Elemental Evil Twisted Metal TBS Comedy Club Promo Funky Groovy Alien Racers Texturing, Lighting, and Composting Driven Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Star Trek - Nemesis (opening Title) Friends Inside Natural Selection Shorties Celestial Pictures Hot Wheels Cat in the Hat Animation, Texturing, Lighting Composting Junior