Luiz Armando Pitondo Junior

Luiz Armando Pitondo Junior

Lead CG Lead / 18 yrs

São Paulo, Brazil

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Skills
Skills Clear
Software
Software Clear
Work History
  • Lighting TD

    Double Negative

    May 2024 - Present
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Remote
  • CG Supervisor

    Vetor Zero

    August 2015 - Present
  • CG Generalist and Lighting Artist

    None

    May 2006 - Present

    - Working as a CG Generalist for some of the biggest studios in Sao Paulo, Brazil and around the world.
    - Working in all the steps of the production, including: lookdev, modeling, lighting, rendering, compositing and retouching.

    Clients:
    - Liquid 3D, Vancouver - Canada
    - Bigstudios, Sao Paulo - Brazil
    - O2 Filmes, Sao Paulo - Brazil
    - Africa, Sao Paulo - Brazil
    - Techno Image, Sao Paulo - Brazil
    - Bitone, Beijing - China
    - And a few other clients from Spain and Brazil.

  • Lighting TD

    ReDefine

    May 2022 - May 2024
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    "Those About To Die" (2024)
    · Contributed as a Lighting TD
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    "Ripley" (2024)
    · Contributed as a Lighting TD
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    "Fighter" (2024)
    · Contributed as a Lighting TD
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    "NYAD" (2023)
    · Contributed as a Lighting TD
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    "Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie" (Expected Release: 2024)
    · Contributed as a Lighting TD
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    "Tuesday" (Expected Release: 2024)
    · Contributed as a Lighting TD
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    "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" (2022)
    · Played a key role in show setup for all departments.
    · Led testing of our new crowd system alongside the CG Supervisor.
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    "American Born Chinese" (2023)
    · Lighting TD for Episode 8 - The Vortex
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    "Black Adam" (2022)
    · Contributed as a Lighting TD

  • Lighting Artist | DMP Artist

    Bardel Entertainment

    August 2021 - September 2021
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • CG Supervisor

    Wildlife Studios

    September 2018 - February 2021
    São Paulo Area, Brazil

    Wildlife Studios is one of the 10 largest mobile gaming companies in the world.

    Founded in Brazil in 2011, the studio has grown to become a truly global organization. Today, the portfolio of over 60 games engages billions of players around the world.

    Responsible for:
    - Managed a team of 10 people, composed of professionals with different levels of seniority and specialty
    - Supervising the work of the entire team, keeping them on track with deadlines.
    - Working together with Intel and Creative team to ensure the most efficient use of department resources and production techniques in the design and development of creatives.
    - Working directly with the producer, ensuring a perfect balance between productivity and quality of delivery.
    - Working side by side with the Engineer and IT Team to building our infrastructure, designing our pipeline, set up our render farm and shotgun.
    - Recommending and developing new techniques into studio tools.
    - Implemented departmental procedures to improve operational efficiency.
    - Worked in all the steps of the production, including: lighting, scene set up, asset management, shot assignment and troubleshooting, compositing, coloring and developing tools.

    Achievements:
    - Friends that became brothers for life.
    - Multiple Iteration System for the Cinematic Department.
    - Building from scratch a multiple iteration system/tool where we were able to iterate over our 3 top
    performers ads for Tennis Clash. Generated over 700 videos in less than a week with 2 men effort and
    made them available for our Creative intelligence Team.

    - Tennis Clash hit the TV! In 2020, we ran the first TV ad series on ESPN, CBS, and Fox Sports in the United States.
    - My Roll:
    Lookdev: 2 main characters, city props, trees, buildings, etc | Lighting | Rendering | Scene set up | Lead project and later on in the middle of the project I've become responsible for the art direction.

    - Developed and automated over 15 tools.

  • CG supervisor

    BigStudios

    April 2010 - August 2015
    Brazil
  • 3D Generalist

    Black Maria

    July 2008 - April 2010