Ariel Podreider Lenzi

Work History

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  cg creature supervisor

  Double Negative

  September 2017 - Present

  London, United Kingdom

• Founder and Creative Producer

  TripleA visual Services ltd

  March 2013 - Present

  Other than manage the everyday business, I work as Creative Producer, Project Manager, Hr, contractor and team relationships, Artist manager and account manager.
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  Sr Creature td

  Industrial Light & Magic

  November 2014 - September 2017

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  broad spectrum role that involves simulations of cloth, muscles and all the secondary kind of animations that are based on a physically correct solver. Among my task there are also scripting,shot sculpting and finalling

  
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  cfx Sup

  Cinesite

  May 2015 - December 2015
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  Sr Generalist / Cloth td

  Passion Pictures

  March 2013 - November 2015

  working on as generalist and creature fx td for a very well known brand new commercial/viral campaign, involving lots of characters and realistic garments simulation
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  cfx Lead sequence / Sr Creature / cfx td

  Framestore

  June 2011 - March 2013

  Leading a team of very talented cfx tds for a particular character sequence in the latest Keanu Reeves movie "47 Ronin". Main tasks include the creation of the simulation rigs for this character, lookdev, new methodologies development for my team and our own project pipeline, cloth simulations, tools scripting and to provide constructive and detailed feedback to fellow tds to achieve sups and client artistic vision.
  
  projects:
  "47 Ronin"
  "Sherlock Holmes 2 Games of Shadows"
  "Wrath of the Titans"

  

  

  
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  TD - layout TD - Technical Animator

  Double Negative

  November 2010 - May 2011

  worked as TD on upcoming project "John Carter Of Mars"
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  Technical Animator

  MPC

  March 2010 - September 2010

  working as cloth td and technical animator for upcoming block busters movies:
  "Harry Potter and the deathly hallows" part 1
  and
  "Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawntreader"

• Character Rigger

  Digi-Guys

  November 2009 - March 2010

  In November, due to a possible change in the company pipeline I was asked to move in the character/rigging team to follow the new rig procedure in maya, due to my past experiences, and to be in house reference for riggers arriving from a different dcc package. From this point on I have been working in both maya and xsi, with my supervisor, to find out which was the best for our needs and the most straight forward and robust from an exporting point of view.

• Cloth and Simulation Artist

  DigiGuys

  October 2008 - November 2009

  Working right now at Digiguys as Cloth artist on brand new revolutionary project Wardevil for Sony's Ps3 (www.wardevil.com)
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  Char TD and Lead Cloth/syflex/ simulation Artist

  Glasgow Animation

  April 2008 - September 2008

  Worked as Char TD and Lead Cloth/syflex/ simulation Artist for Bille Production CG feature film "sir Bille the Vet"

• 2D/3D TD & DIgital Content Creator

  Frame Fx - DEA

  November 2007 - March 2008

  Working as All round TD on maya Software and as 2d content creator in catalogues projects

• Jr. TD - XSi Generallist

  Lumiq Studios

  May 2006 - May 2007

  I've been hired to do special effects, final rendering and compositing of a tv show based on a famous character well known in itlay co-produced in association with another company based in Milan, italy.
  
  Right now i'm working also on hairs dynamic simulation (using softimage xsi) for a 3d moving picture based on the Cervantes's famous character Don Quixote

  

• 3d content creator

  VirtualStyle

  July 2005 - April 2006

  3d content creatior (modelling & texturing) for educational oriented real time product
  video e content editor for video reviews of games