Magali Rigaudias

Magali Rigaudias

Supervisor Animation Director / 22 yrs

Sydney, Australia

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Magali has worked in the animation industry for nearly 30 years

After spending some time working in Paris early on in her career, she went to Industrial Light & Magic in California and worked as an animator on VFX films such as Dragonheart, Mars Attack, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Star Wars Episode I & II, The Mummy Returns, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Van Helsing.

After almost a decade at the studio in San Francisco, she decided to broaden her experience to work on animated films and in 2004, she joined the Sydney team at Animal Logic as a lead animator to work on George Miller's Happy Feet. The film went on to win the Academy Award in 2007 for best Animated Feature Film.

Other credits include Guardians of Ga'Hoole, Maya the Bee Movie, Monsters Hunt, LEGO Batman, Peter Rabbit and The LEGO Movie 2.

Magali recently joined Animal Logic again as an animation supervisor after anim directing on Maya the Bee - The Golden Orb at Flying Bark and Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness for the Belgian studio nWave Digital.
Work History
  • Animation Supervisor

    Animal Logic

    May 2022 - December 2022
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • Animation Director

    nWave Digital

    April 2020 - January 2022
    Belgium

    Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness

  • Animation Director

    Flying Bark Productions

    February 2019 - November 2019
    Sydney, Australia

    Maya the Bee - The Golden Orb

  • Animation Lead

    Animal Logic

    September 2015 - December 2018
    Sydney, Australia
  • Animation Lead

    Animal Logic

    June 2018 - December 2018
    Sydney, Australia

    Animation Lead on 'The Lego Movie 2'

  • Animation Lead

    Iloura

    September 2014 - July 2015
    Sydney, Australia

    Lead the animation team and liaised with rigging and R&D on Alex Proyas'​ 'Gods of Egypt'

  • Senior Character Animator

    Base FX

    May 2014 - July 2014
    Beijing City, China
  • Senior Character Animator

    Proof Inc

    February 2014 - March 2014
    Sydney, Australia
  • Animation Lead

    Flying Bark Productions

    April 2013 - November 2013
  • Animation Mentor

    Marza Animation Planet

    November 2012 - January 2013
    Tokyo, Japan
  • Lead Animator

    Dr. D Studios

    November 2009 - February 2012
    Sydney, Australia
  • Lead Character Animator

    Animal Logic

    February 2007 - June 2009
  • Gone traveling ...

    The World

    October 2006 - January 2007
  • Lead Character Animator

    Animal Logic

    September 2004 - September 2006
  • Character Animator

    Industrial Light & Magic

    September 1995 - June 2004
  • Animatrice

    Frame by Frame italia

    1999 - 1999
  • Animator

    Frame by Frame

    1999 - 1999
  • Character Animator

    Fantome Animation

    January 1993 - June 1995


    Insektors TV serie

Education
  • AFPA

    1990 - 1991