Senior Digital Artist at Industrial Light + Magic (ILM) since 2008, Kris' film career ranges from “Pan’s Labyrinth”, “Rango”, the last two “Transformers” movies and the upcoming "The Avengers". For the Academy Award winning “Pan’s Labyrinth” Kris worked as character animator and facial rigger, also doing some additional modeling and texturing. Since he started at ILM, Kris' specialized in both hard surface and organic modeling, able to sculpt virtually any given concept, from complex spaceships and robots for "Transformers" to creature modeling and shape libraries done extensively on "Rango". His personal career includes wins in three editions of the CGSociety Challenges, some of the most prestigious competitions of their kind on the internet. He won the 3D grand prize in both MachineFlesh 2004 and Master & Servant 2005, also winning as best modeler in the latest B-Movie Challenge.