Keith Sintay is an American animator. Sintay has been an animation artist at Walt Disney Studios, DreamWorks Feature Animation, Sony Pictures Imageworks, and Digital Domain as well as many other studios.

Keith Sintay
BornFebruary 22
Other namesKeith A. Sintay
Alma materCentral Michigan University
OccupationCharacter animator

Early life

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Keith Sintay was born on February 22 in Southfield, Michigan. He was inspired to become and animator after seeing The Rescuers in 1977.[1] He grew up in Livonia, Michigan, where he attended Bentley High School and Churchill High School. He was originally going to study business at Central Michigan University, but pivoted to animation while doing artwork on campus.[2]

Career

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Sintay was accepted into the Disney internship program and was hired shortly after to work on Pocahontas.[2] Sintay has worked on the films Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mulan, and Tarzan at Disney Feature, and Spirit, Sinbad and Shark Tale at DreamWorks. At Sony Pictures Imageworks, he was Sr. Animator on Open Season, Monster House, Beowulf and I am Legend. He worked at Digital Domain on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Tron:Legacy.[1] He now works as a senior character animator for Industrial Light and Magic, working on Star Wars projects.[2]

In addition to his work as an animator, Sintay is a contributing artist and illustrator for several books by author Mark Simon. Included in these are Facial Expressions and Storyboards, Motion in Art.

Personal life

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Sintay currently lives in the Los Angeles area. He lives with his wife Connie and their five rescued dogs. He also owns a collection of Star Wars memorabilia- complete with a life size R2-D2 and C-3PO, and a wall of Darth Vader helmets.[1][2]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Credits Characters Notes
1995 Pocahontas Inbetweener Pocahontas Walt Disney Feature Animation
1996 The Hunchback of Notre Dame Inbetween Artist Gargoyles
1998 Mulan Inbetween Artist Mulan
1999 Tarzan Additional Clean-Up Artist Terk, Young Tarzan
2002 Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmeron Animator Spirit, Little Creek DreamWorks Animation
2003 Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas Animator Sinbad's Crew, Dog
2004 Shark Tale Animator Oscar, Angie
2006 Open Season Senior Animator Beth, Boog, Elliot Sony Pictures Imageworks
2006 Monster House Senior Animator House, Kids
2007 Surf's Up Senior Animator Cody, Big Z, Tank
2007 Beowulf Senior Animator Beowulf, Dragon, Horses
2007 I Am Legend Senior Animator Hemocytes
2009 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Senior Animator Joes Digital Domain
2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Senior Animator Wheels, var. Bots
2010 Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief Senior Animator
2010 Piranha 3D Senior Animator
2010 Tron: Legacy Senior Animator Digital Domain
2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon Animator
2012 Men In Black 3 Senior Animator Sony Pictures Imageworks
2013 Iron Man 3 Visual effects Scanline VFX
2014 300: Rise of an Empire Visual effects
2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction Senior Animator Industrial Light and Magic
2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Animator
2015 Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal Senior Animator Pixomondo
2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron Senior Animator Industrial Light and Magic
2015 Impossible Animator Pixomondo
2016 Alice Through the Looking Glass Senior Animator Sony Pictures Imageworks
2016 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows Senior Animator Industrial Light and Magic
2016 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Senior Animator
2017 Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi Senior Animator
2018 Solo: A Star Wars Story Visual effects

Television

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Year Title Credits Notes
2021 WandaVision Senior Animator
2021 Loki Senior Animator Industrial Light and Magic
2022 Obi-Wan Kenobi Senior Animator
2023 The Mandalorian Senior Animator
2023 Ahsoka Senior Animator

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Keith Sintay | Notable Alumni". www.cmich.edu. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  2. ^ a b c d Veselenak, David (December 30, 2016). "Livonia man helps animate Rogue One: A Star Wars story". Observer and Eccentric Newspapers and Hometown Weeklies. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
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