Juan Carlos Mendoza

Work History

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  Senior Compositor

  ScanlineVFX

  September 2014 - April 2015

  Feature Films:
  - Furious 7 (2015)
  - San Andreas (2015)
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  Senior Compositor

  Image Engine

  August 2014 - September 2014

  Feature Films:
  - Chappie (2015)
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  Digital Compositor

  Industrial Light & Magic

  March 2014 - July 2014

  Feature Films:
  - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

  

  

  
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  Digital Compositor

  MPC

  October 2012 - March 2014

  Feature films:
  - Man of Steel (2013)
  - The Lone Ranger (2013)
  - 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)
  - Maleficent (2014)
  - Godzilla (2014)

  

  

  
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  Digital Compositor

  Prime Focus World

  January 2012 - October 2012

  Feature films:
  -Men in Black 3
  -Total Recall
  -Resident Evil: Retribution (stereo compositor)

  

  
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  Digital Compositor

  Anthem Visual Effects

  December 2010 - December 2011

  Notable Projects include:
  Neverland (Sky-SyFy)
  Sanctuary, Season 3 & 4 (SyFy)
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  Digital Compositor and VFX Generalist

  GFZ Studios

  October 2010 - December 2010

  Compositing. Matte painting. Match-Move. Modeling. Lighting. Rendering.
  Notable projects:
  Good Night For Justice (2011).

• Digital Compositor and VFX Generalist

  Vancouver Film School. “The Cyclops” Short Film.

  August 2010 - December 2010

  I got this project as part of the Scholarship from VFS. My duties consisted in generate the solutions of 3 VFX shots. I had
  the opportunity to work as VFX Supervisor on set. And develop the whole VFX shots themselves, including 3D Object
  match-move, modeling, lighting and compositing.

• Digital Compositor and VFX Generalist

  Vancouver Film School. “Experiment 8” Short Film.

  January 2010 - July 2010

  I developed a whole VFX mini short film as part of the VFS program. Consisted in 3 VFX shots that included a giant
  creature escaping from a building. Developing from the Concept to the Final Compositing, and all the steps in-between.
  Selected to been screened at VFS booth in Siggraph 2010 in L.A.

• Co-Owner. Art Director.

  Utopia Visual

  January 2005 - June 2009

  Head of some projects. Schedule deadlines. Concepts development. Teamwork with some clients to develop projects. Multimedia, graphic and web designer.
  
  Featured Clients:
  McGraw-Hill, Eastman Chemical Company, MasExpos Magazine, SAGARPA, Mexico Experience.

• Instructor

  COMFIL Instituto de Comunicación y Filosofía

  October 2005 - November 2005

  Design Diploma Instructor. Covering the web module (primarily flash, and html)
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  Graphic and web designer

  Freelance

  January 2001 - January 2005

  Creative concepts development. Multimedia, graphic and web designer.

• Graphic and web designer

  Megaexpo

  August 2000 - September 2001

  Graphic and web designer of several projects that this company had of virtual exhibitions.

• Graphic and web designer

  Supergol

  July 1999 - August 2000

  This was a website of soccer. Where I developed all the graphic design of the site, and some HTML programming.