Mimia Arbelaez

Work History

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  Founder

  CreativeCave

  January 2019 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area

  CreativeCave was born as an innovation and Design Thinking project at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. A project to empower young students to become creators, inventors and provide them with a hands-on and interactive experience to develop their unique creativity power.
  www.creativecave.biz
  
  -Story and Design Thinking consultant.
  -Speaker and lecturer at Academy of Art University.
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  Lighting TD

  Pixar

  August 2008 - Present
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  Technical Director

  Pixar

  June 2008 - June 2019

  Emeryville, CA

  Over a decade of experience creating visually and technically complex scenes for Academy Award winning films.
  Extensive experience in all aspects of creative process ranging from concept through execution for film, commercials, consumer products and impactful experiences.
  Conceptualize and design the characters, environments and graphics for 3D films, shorts and promotional animation for theatrical features.
  
  Films:
  Coco
  Sajay's Super Team
  The good Dinosaur
  Finding Dory
  Inside out
  Toy Story That Time Forgot
  Monsters University
  Cars2
  Toy Story 3
  Dug Special Mission
  Up
  Mater Tales
  
  ThemeParks:
  TurtleTalk at Disneyland
  Nemo & Friends SeaRider at Tokyo Disney Resort.
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  Lighting and Shading Technical Director

  Tippett Studio

  January 2004 - August 2008

  Responsible for the lighting and rendering of characters, visual effects elements and cg sets for films. Specialized in R&D, look development, shader writing, production rendering, surfacing, digital paint, texture painting and matte painting.

  
  Credits:

  Spiderwick Chronicles - Cloverfield - Enchanted - Charlottes Web - The Santa Clause - The Shaggy Dog - Beverly Hills chihuahua - Son of the Mask - Constantine - Stepford Wives

  
  Specialties: Lighting, look development, compositing, shader writing, production rendering, surfacing, digital paint, texture painting and matte painting.