Mariana Acuña

Work History

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  Regional Development Manager - AU/NZ

  The Foundry

  August 2014 - Present

  • Increase brand awareness through strategic partnerships, trade shows, and presentations.
  • Work closely with the Sales team to articulate vision for the Industry to key customers while providing world class customer support.
  • Identify, enable, and help customers interested in The Foundry products make the switch to our tools. This spans established VFX & animation studios, education facilities, and game developers.
  • Serve as the liaison between the client and the Marketing, Engineering & Sales teams.
  • Represent the client as the technical relationship manager, working closely with the Regional Sales Manager and the channel partners.
  • Effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
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  Media & Production Creative Manager - AMER

  The Foundry

  April 2015 - January 2016

  • Lead a team of Creatives to successful execution on various types of projects.
  • Work closely with developers and partners, addressing their technical challenges as it relates to live action content in VR.
  • Virtual Reality workflow specialist using Nuke for compositing & Modo for interactive VR asset creation.
  • Manage resource allocation for internal projects and channel needs.
  • Understand the challenges of VR pipelines to be able to act as a consultant.
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  Creative Specialist

  Foundry

  November 2011 - August 2014

  Venice, CA
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  Digital Trainer

  Escape Studios

  August 2011 - May 2012

  Santa Monica, CA

• Senior Compositor

  Pixels by me

  August 2011 - November 2011

  • Compositing for Treasure Island, British T.V. Show.
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  Senior Compositing T.D.

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  February 2011 - May 2011

  • Complex multi-pass compositing using Nuke & Katana.
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  Stereoscopic Compositor

  ICO VFX

  May 2010 - December 2010

  • Stereo 3D and anamorphic compositing in Nuke
  • Problem solving with Ocula.
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  Senior Compositor

  Look Effects

  February 2010 - June 2010

• 2D Compositor

  ICO entertainment

  2009 - 2010

  • Compositing for Pirana 3D, & Shrek, among others.
  • 2D to 3D Conversion.
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  Digital Compositor

  CIS Hollywood

  October 2009 - November 2009

  • Blood & Guts team; for the movie Invictus.
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  Digital Compositor

  Synthespian Studios

  February 2009 - June 2009

  • Compositing for the movie Surrogates.

• Senior Compositor

  The FX Shop

  June 2008 - January 2009

  • Sequence look development.
  • Teach junior compositors how to optimize workflows.
  • Use Nuke's 3D system for set extensions and digital environments.

• Senior Compositor

  Pixels by me

  2006 - 2009

  * 2D & 3D tracking, matte extraction, integration of several 3D elements into live action plates.
  • Paint fixes, color correction, rotoscoping.
  • Camera projection workflows & matte painting.
  
  

• Lead Compositor, VFX Supervisor - Freelance

  Pixels by me

  February 2008 - May 2008

  • Breakdown scripts, bid and supervise VFX requirements on set.
  • Keying, rig removals, integration of several 3D elements into live action plates, 3D tracking, matte painting, paint fixes, color correction, rotoscoping, and camera projection workflows.
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  VFX Supervisor

  Columbia Pictures

  April 2007 - February 2008
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  VFX Compositor

  Ollin VFX

  December 2005 - April 2007

• On Set Assistant to VFX Supervisor

  Troublemaker Studios

  February 2007 - February 2007

  • On set assistant to VFX Supervisor Robert Rodriguez.

• Producer

  Mantic Brand Building

  April 2002 - August 2005

  Mexico City
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  On Set Assitant Director

  Warner Bros. Entertainment Group of Companies

  June 2003 - September 2003

  Mexico
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  Key Set Production Assistant

  HBO

  April 2002 - December 2002

  Mexico
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  On Set Assistant Director

  20th Century Fox

  April 2002 - December 2002
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  M&P Creative Manager

  The Foundry

  ? - Present