Alejandro Turano

Alejandro Turano

Lead Lighting Artist / Lead Look Development / 20 yrs

Argentina

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Lighting Technical Director

Cosmic Chaos (2023)

Lighting And Look Development

Dynasty Warriors (2021)

Lead Look Dev Artist / Lighting Supervisor

Lil Dicky: Earth (2019)

Sr Lighting Artist

Deep (2018)

Work History
  • Sr. Lighting Artist.

    Grid VFX

    June 2016 - July 2016
    Gent Area, Belgium

    I`ve worked in the Lighting department for the animated feature film "Deep".

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4105584/

  • CG Supervisor / Art Direction

    TRONCO™

    August 2015 - June 2016
  • Lighting Supervisor / Shading Artist

    3Dar

    July 2015 - September 2015
    Buenos Aires, Argentina

    I´ve worked as a Lighting Supervisor and Shading artist for a short movie that was being produced in 3dAr, a production company in argentina called UNCANNY VALLEY:

    https://vimeo.com/147365861

  • Lighting Artist / TD

    ONER Vfx

    September 2014 - November 2014

    I've been lighting CG sets, props and crowds for the film "Hands of Stone".

    Movie link in imdb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1781827/

  • Lighting Supervisor

    GRID-vfx

    March 2014 - August 2014

    Actually in charge of supervising cg lighting on sequences of the animated feature film "Oops! Noah is gone" optimizing both human and computer resources in terms of simplicity in lighting set ups and low render times preserving a high quality cinematic lighting.

    - Lighting master shots.
    - Shot reviewing.
    - Render times optimization with diversal lighting and composition techinques.
    - Lighting tools development.
    - Scripting

    Software in use: Maya, Arnold, Nuke and Python scripting. OS: Linux.

  • Lighting TD - Sr. Lighter

    GRID-vfx

    November 2013 - March 2014

    Collaborating on the devolopment of tools for the lighting department and lighter for the animated feature film "Oops Noah is Gone" a coproduction between Ireland - Germany - Luxembourg and Belgium.

  • Lighting Supervisor

    Catmandu

    July 2013 - November 2013

    I was in charge of the Lighting Department doing reviews, establishing new workflows, doing shell scripts and preparing a three hours lighting workshop that I've presented at ACM SIGGRAPH Bogota in September 2013 as well as in Buenos Aires, Argentina at "Centro Cultural Recoleta" CCR the same year.

  • Lighting & Compositing Problem Solving Supervisor

    Catmandu

    March 2013 - July 2013

    During the "crunch time" of "Foosball" (directed by J.J. Campaella) I was in charge of supervising a whole new department called "Fixing", with almost twenty artists and the objective of delivering the movie in time and quality. The department managed to solve about 900 shots with a diversity of lighting, shading, compositing, simulation and stereo issues.

  • Lead Lighting / Master Lighter

    Catmandu

    April 2011 - March 2013

    Since May 2011 till August 2011 I've been working as an in house Arnold beta tester. I have the opportunity to give an introductory presentation for shading and lighting artists about the render engine here at Catmandu.

    In August 2011 I've worked as a master lighter and compositor for Juan Jose Campanella's "Foosball" in the creation of the movie's first teaser to be shown worldwide; making decisions about techniques and workflows to be used later.

    Nowadays I'm doing establishing shots and lead lighting of several sequences of the same movie as well

  • Shading Artist

    Catmandu

    February 2011 - May 2011

    Shading in Maya (Mental Ray, Arnold) / Texture painting.

  • Lighting & Shading Artist. / Hair TD. / Look development

    Gizmo

    November 2009 - May 2011

    Mostly lead shading and lighthing/comp.
    Establishing a hair pipeline.

  • Lighting & Shading Artist.

    Estilo 3D

    April 2008 - November 2009

    I was in charge of delivering hyper realistic images for print advertising.

  • Diseño y realización de Stands + Presentaciones 3D

    LAWDESIGN

    August 2006 - April 2008

    Realización de presentaciones de stands para las grandes marcas: Telecom, Ford, Telefónica, Chrysler, Mercedes Benz, DOW Chemical, etc.

  • 3D Generalist. Design visualization.

    Imagen y Comunicación SA.

    January 2005 - August 2006

    Realización de las presentaciones arquitectónicas de todos los NIKE shops latinoamérica así como el mobiliario utilizado.

Education
  • Universidad de Buenos Aires / UBA

    2006 - 2015
  • Matias Alessandro

    2010 - 2012
  • Image Campus

    2004 - 2006
  • Universidad de Buenos Aires / UBA

    2000 - 2004