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Marty Stoltz born (Martin Eugene Stoltz), is an American video game Cinematic Director and filmmaker best known for his cinematic work on several Mortal Kombat titles and for creating the cinematics in John Woo Presents Stranglehold, and for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
Studing Photography at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and Filmmakeing at the film school 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 signed on as Cinematic Director at Lucas Arts for the much anticipated game "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed". Currently he is working at Big Huge Games as Director for an upcoming RPG title.
Stoltz has also spoke on game design and cinematics at several GDC conferences and as an invited speaker at the Montreal International Game Summit and FMX in Germany.
Games
[edit]Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (2008), Lucas Arts
John Woo Presents 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