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.
Early life Keith Sintay was born on February 22 in Southfield, Michigan. He was inspired to become and animator after seeing The Rescuers in 1977. 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.
Career Sintay was accepted into the Disney internship program and was hired shortly after to work on Pocahontas. 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. He now works as a senior character animator for Industrial Light and Magic, working on Star Wars projects.
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 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.
Filmography
Film YearTitleCreditsCharactersNotes1995PocahontasInbetweenerPocahontasWalt Disney Feature Animation1996 The Hunchback of Notre Dame Inbetween Artist Gargoyles 1998 MulanInbetween ArtistMulan1999Tarzan Additional Clean-Up ArtistTerk, Young Tarzan2002Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmeron Animator Spirit, Little CreekDreamWorks Animation2003Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas Animator Sinbad's Crew, Dog2004Shark TaleAnimator Oscar, Angie2006Open Season Senior AnimatorBeth, Boog, ElliotSony Pictures Imageworks2006Monster HouseSenior Animator House, Kids2007Surf's UpSenior AnimatorCody, Big Z, Tank2007BeowulfSenior Animator Beowulf, Dragon, Horses2007I Am LegendSenior AnimatorHemocytes 2009G.I. Joe: The Rise of CobraSenior AnimatorJoes Digital Domain2009Transformers: Revenge of the FallenSenior AnimatorWheels, var. Bots 2010Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning ThiefSenior Animator2010Piranha 3DSenior Animator2010Tron: LegacySenior AnimatorDigital Domain2011Transformers: Dark of the MoonAnimator2012Men In Black 3Senior AnimatorSony Pictures Imageworks2013Iron Man 3Visual effectsScanline VFX2014300: Rise of an EmpireVisual effects2014Transformers: Age of ExtinctionSenior AnimatorIndustrial Light and Magic2014Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesAnimator2015Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark CrystalSenior AnimatorPixomondo2015Avengers: Age of UltronSenior AnimatorIndustrial Light and Magic2015ImpossibleAnimatorPixomondo2016Alice Through the Looking GlassSenior AnimatorSony Pictures Imageworks2016Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the ShadowsSenior AnimatorIndustrial Light and Magic2016Rogue One: A Star Wars StorySenior Animator2017Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last JediSenior Animator2018Solo: A Star Wars StoryVisual effects
Television YearTitleCreditsNotes2021WandaVisionSenior Animator2021 Loki Senior Animator Industrial Light and Magic2022 Obi-Wan KenobiSenior Animator2023The Mandalorian Senior Animator2023AhsokaSenior Animator
References
External links
Keith Sintay showreel Keith Sintay Beowulf interview Beowulf interview pt. 2 Place to learn character animation through mentorship