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Igor Staritsin

Senior Concept Artist Matte Painter

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Creating epic matte paintings for films and games.

Igor is a Lead Concept Artist and Matte Painter / Environment Artist working in film and video game industries. He has worked for various visual effect companies and clients all over the globe, such as Warner Brothers, Disney, Marvel, Legendary, 20th Century, Method Studios, MPC, Digic Pictures, Naughty Dog, Pixomondo, Axis Animation, Gnomon, and National Geographic.

He has contributed to award-winning projects such as Godzilla: King of Monsters, Black Panther, Thor Ragnarok, Justice League, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Assassin's Creed, Maleficent, Game of Thrones, Final Fantasy, Destiny, Call of Duty, Gone with the Bullets, Jersey Boys, Welcome to the Punch, The Dream of a Butterfly and many more. Igor has also been featured in several books, including Ballistic Publishing’s D'artiste Matte Painting 3, with nine of his matte paintings. He has a background in traditional painting that has helped him work both digitally and traditionally.

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Testimonials

I really enjoyed Igor’s practical and experienced HW feedback. I really appreciated how he ALWAYS would reply to WIP threads and would often go above and beyond in the student feedback videos.

Jonathan

He is a great instructor!

Jose

Igor was going above and beyond to provide us with feedback and arm us with knowledge we needed to tackle each task. On top of that he is really cool and open guy. I had amazing pleasure to learn and grow along his side. Thank you Igor

Arthur