Armando Sepulveda

Work History

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  Principal Artist

  Aspyr Media, Inc.

  August 2019 - January 2021

  Principal Artist. Previs and realtime Unreal pipeline for cinematics and lighting. Global lighting responsabilities for gameplay and Cinematics. Principal VFX artist with R&D in Houdini and Unreal.
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  Lead FX artist

  BioWare

  July 2016 - August 2019

• Head of CG, Generalist, FX artist

  Medical Education Designs

  January 2013 - February 2017

  Computer graphics for Medical simulations.
  Carving and medical simulations for dentistry platform online.
  General supervisor & Pipeline development. Team management and generalist tasks, FX Artist. Online platform design and supervision.

• VFX Generalist. Owner

  CGSOS

  January 2012 - February 2017

  Freelances in general fields: Modeling, Lighting, Particles simulations, Lookdev, Realtime, OpenGL projects & Videogame assets.
  Clients: Google, Rolex, HBO, PetGorilla, Qvisten Animation, Disruptor Beam, Bacon FX, Benjy Von Productions…
  Projects: Various commercials and films, StarTrek videogame, PriestGrotto Realtime museum exhibition, Google VR card, Take the throne (HBO), Seagate, …
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  Lighting and FX Artist

  Insomniac Games

  October 2015 - July 2016

  Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

  Back in the game, doing Lighting and FX for several projects, mostly VR related.
  
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  LookDev and FX Artist

  Harmonix Music Systems

  November 2012 - December 2013

  I did many of the shading effects interactions with the cretaures and the environment. Also particles animation, smokes, flames, plasmas, planets and many other effects.

• Senior Modeler

  Light + Mathematics Ltd.

  February 2011 - December 2013

  ColorBleed BBC. Winner Hollyshorts Film Festival, Fantas Porto & Shots Madrid.
  Our Lady of Lourdes. best VFX HollyShort film festival Award.
  I have contributed in a couple of times with modeling work. Both short-films I work on, have earned best VFX Shot-film awards and others.
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  Head of CG

  Minivegas

  November 2011 - November 2012

  Commercials, Pipeline development, training, planning, team management. Cg Artist on several Commercials, some shortfilms and Realtime mapping projections.
  Clients: Adidas, Intel, Sony, Art Institute, Loveland Festivals…
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  Senior Modeler

  Framestore

  September 2010 - November 2011

  Gravity by Alfonso Cuaron
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  Senior Modeler

  DreamWorks Animation

  November 2008 - September 2010

  General modeling
  Megamind
  Shrek4
  Madagascar

  

  
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  Lighting and Compositing Artist

  Framestore

  June 2008 - November 2008

  The Tales of Despereaux
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  Senior Character Modeller

  Framestore

  September 2006 - June 2008

  The tales of Despereaux
  Character modeller
  Lipsync

  
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  Character Modeler

  Eurocom

  February 2006 - September 2006

  Pirates of the Caribean, Disney entertainment
  Character Modelling High Res
  Lipsync
  Texturing, Normal Mapping, Ambient Occlusion Baking

• Character Modeller, Lipsync and FX

  Bren Entertainment

  February 2005 - February 2006

  Character Modelling
  Lipsync
  Fx, fur and vegetations

  
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  Lighting and Compositing Artist

  Dygra Films

  September 2004 - February 2005
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  3dmax Vray Lighting Teacher

  Aula Temática

  May 2001 - July 2004

  I organized and gave the courses for max advanced and lighting

• Generalist

  ColoradoFX

  January 2003 - July 2003

  I worked as generalist artsist for Torque the movie and some commercials