Martin Stoltz
Marty Stoltz born (Martin Eugene Stoltz), is an American video game Cinematic Director, Game Designer, Filmmaker, and Photographer best known for his cinematic work on Mortal Kombat, Stranglehold, and for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
Career
Studying Photography at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and Filmmaking at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Stoltz began his career in the motion picture/multi-media industry working as a camera and editing assistant. In 1996 he joined the independent game developer DreamForge Intertainment as cut-scene director working on such titles as the award winning psychological horror adventure "Sanitarium". In 2002 he joined the Chicago video game developer Midway Games directing the cinematics for such games as the science fiction title "Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy" as well as "Mortal Kombat: Deception". His last full title for Midway was the Hong Kong style action game "John Woo Presents Stranglehold". In 2007 he started as cinematic director at LucasArts for the much anticipated game "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" which won the Screen Writers Guild best video game story award as well as the Interactive Achievement Awards Outstanding Achievement in Adapted Story for 2009. He worked at 38 Studios as cinematic director for EA's title "Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning". After the games release he accepted a position as realization director with Ubisoft Entertainment at the Ubisoft Montreal Studio. In 2014 he moved back to Chicago accepting a position as Director of Cinematics with Warner Brothers Games working at Netherrealm Studios.
Stoltz has also spoken on game design and cinematics at several GDC conferences and as an invited speaker at the Montreal International Game Summit, FMX in Germany, and GDC China in Shanghai. He has also presented at a number of universities including the College of Creative Studies and the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Games
Mortal Kombat X (2015), Warner Brothers Games
FarCry 3: Blood_Dragon (2013) Ubisoft
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (2012), 38 Studios
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (2008), LucasArts
Stranglehold (2007), Midway Games
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (2007), Midway Games
NBA Ballers: Phenom (2006), Midway Games
Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict (2005), Epic Games
Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks (2005), Midway Games
Area 51 (2005), Inevitable Entertainment
Mortal Kombat: Deception (2005), Midway Games
The Suffering: Ties That Bind (2005), Surreal Software
Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy (2004), Midway Games
Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War (1999), DreamForge Intertainment
Werewolf the Apocalypse: Heart of Gaia (1999), DreamForge Intertainment (Unreleased)
TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter (1998), DreamForge Intertainment
Sanitarium (1998), DreamForge Intertainment
War Wind 2: Human Onslaught (1997), DreamForge Intertainment
War Wind (1996), DreamForge Intertainment