Dayna Kelly Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023)Heart of Stone (2023)
• Led a small team of Layout Artists (2-6) across two feature films for high-profile clients (Netflix, Warner Bros.)
• Rapidly adapted to new proprietary tools and pipelines after Method Studios was acquired by Framestore in 2020.
• Established direction for camera, scene assembly, continuity, and the development of show-specific workflows.
• Collaborated with cross-discipline teams and leads to support the development of concurrent sequences with varying scopes, teams, and needs to drive projects from concept to completion.
• Created previz with proxy models and camera and actor staging based on storyboards and shot briefs.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)(Method Studios was acquired by Framestore in 2020.)
• Led a small team of Layout Artists (2-6) for Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder across 500+ shots.
• Established direction for camera, scene assembly, continuity, and the development of bespoke workflows.
• Collaborated with cross-discipline teams and leads to support the development of multiple concurrent sequences with varying environments, teams, and workflows to drive projects from concept to completion.
• Mentored team members to enhance the development of camera skills and cinematography techniques.
• Collaborated with Supervision, Compositing, and Pipeline leads to troubleshoot and resolve a critical tool issue that was causing a production bottleneck.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• DC League of Super-Pets (2022)
• Finalized camera setups and animation for DC League of Super Pets.
• Applied real-world cinematography principles to daily shot work using a clear understanding of camera physics, movement, timing, sensors, DOF (depth of field), and lens selection (focal length).
• Added nuance to camera animation to support and enhance narrative.
• Set-dressed shots and sequences using studio asset libraries.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
• Assembled shots, animated CG cameras, and retargeted character animation from animation libraries for Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021).
• Created previz FX particles within Maya.
• Scripted simple tools to speed up daily workflow.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Thunder Force (2021)The Many Saints of Newark (2021)The Witches (2020)A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting (2020)Snowpiercer S1 (2020)Ford v Ferrari (2019)Men in Black: International (2019)Triple Frontier.
• Contributed to the delivery of more than 17 feature films and episodics.
• Assembled shots, animated CG cameras, and built procedural and non-procedural environments.
• Retargeted Cate Blanchett’s character mocap (motion capture) directly into shot environments for Thor: Ragnarok (2017).
• Created previz with preliminary actor staging, lighting setups, and camera animation.
• Interpreted 2D storyboards, animatics, and 3D previz into final layouts.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The New Mutants (2020)

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Cleaned up complex proprietary facial motion capture scan data for a vocal holographic performance.(Affected by department redundancy.)

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Researched, designed, and implemented websites, graphics, and information on a specific client-to-client basis.

Mount Pleasant, SC

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Visual Effects

Activities and Societies: Artist on CG short student film "N0-A"Graduated Magna Cum Laude 9x Dean's List honoree Lead artist on "N0-A", a.

Education record

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, Varsity SoftballGraduated in the top 10% of the Class of 2011 & top 5% of the state of.