Martin Kline

Senior Lecturer | BFA Game and Entertainment Design, BFA Animation

Education

  • Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, Evening Studies, Continuing Education
    Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, BFA, Fine Arts, 1971
  • Columbia University, New York City, NY, MS, Materials Science, 1969
  • Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA, BS, Metallurgy and Materials Science, 1967

Publications

  • Concept Art and VFX: Managed Collaboration
  • Perspective Magazine, The Journal of the Art Directors Guild, March-April 2018, Skill Building for the New Art Department, Marty Kline, Member of the Art Directors Guild
  • Stuart Little, The Art, The Artists, and the Story Behind the Amazing Movie, 2000, Edited by Linda Sunshine, Marty Kline on Matte Painting, pp. 84-85, and numerous credited artworks from the development.
    Martin Kline's Student Work
    Martin Kline's Student Work
    Martin Kline's Student Work
    Martin Kline's Student Work
    Martin Kline's Student Work
    Martin Kline's Student Work

Portrait of Martin Kline

 

Professional Accomplishments / Exhibitions

  • Illustrators and Matte Artists, Member since 1977, Vice President from 1988 to the merger with the ADG 2008

  • Art Directors Guild, Member since 1992, Trustee since 2017

  • Visual Effects Society, Board of Directors, 1997, 1998, Member since 1997

  • Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, Director of Academic Affairs, 2017-2020   

  • American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA, Seminars, Storyboards for Pre-Production, 2002

  • Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Lemulsen Center, Lecture, The Playful Mind, 2000

  • Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles; DGC, Toronto, Storyboarding for Directors, a Seminar, 1994