Resume

Juan Alvarez

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4347508/

Experience:

Flame Artist
Fotokem – Keep Me Posted (Burbank, CA) – Feb. 2021 – May 2025

  • Monitor Compositions, Muzzle Flashes, Blood/Gore VFX
  • Tracking and animation

Visual Effects Artist
Technicolor (Hollywood, CA) – Aug. 2015 – Jan. 2021

  • Digital Compositing
  • Beauty work and de-aging
  • Roto and Paint
  • Tracking and animation

Flame Roto Artist
Lola (Santa Monica, CA) – Feb. 2015 – Aug. 2015

  • Roto and Paint
  • Tracking and animation

Motion Graphics Artist
Studiopolis (Burbank, CA) – Dec. 2014 – Feb, 2015

  • Graphic Design
  • Animation

Visual Effects Artist
Blacklist Digital (Hollywood, CA) – July 2014 – July 2015

  • Digital Compositing
  • Roto and Paint
  • Tracking and animation

Stereo Depth Artist
Stereo D LLC (Burbank, CA) – Jan. 2014 – July 2014

  • Stereo Depth Scripting in Nuke
  • Converting 2D film to 3D for theatrical release
  • Production Pipeline

Silhouette Roto Artist
Stereo D LLC (Burbank, CA) – Jan. 2013 – July 2013

  • Roto Artist/DI Mattes
  • Shape Tracking and Animation in Silhouette
  • Application of RGB mattes in Nuke

Flame Roto/Paint Artist
Hydraulx Films (Santa Monica, CA) – April 2012 – Oct. 2012

  • Manipulate and animate splines to mask out/in elements
  • Projection maps and displacement
  • Tracking hand drawn paint

Lead Stereo Conversion/Compositing Artist
Legend 3D (San Diego, CA) – Dec. 2009 – May 2011

  • Converting 2D film to 3D for theatrical release
  • Final Reviews, file allocations, assessments
  • Training and supervision of new artists

Software Knowledge

  • After Effects
  • Flame
  • Nuke
  • Mocha
  • Silhouette
  • Photoshop

Education:

The Art Institute of California-San Diego
– BS Media Art and Animation(Graduated Spring 08)

ITT Technical Institute
– AS Computer Aided Drafting (Graduated Summer 05)