Alex Manita

Work History

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  FX TD

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  December 2014 - Present

  
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  fx technical director

  Sony

  November 2014 - December 2015
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  Senior FX TD

  Look Effects

  April 2014 - September 2014

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  -Houdini Pipeline Development
  -Houdini Particles and Pyro Sims
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  Senior FX TD

  MPC

  November 2013 - March 2014

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  -Flowline dynamic simulations
  -Particle simulations
  PROJECTS:
  -Godzilla (2014)
  -Edge of tomorrow (2014)

  
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  FX/Pipeline TD

  Toonbox Entertainment

  August 2011 - October 2013

  -Water simulations and pipeline R&D (Naiad,Houdini)
  -Procedural tree development
  -Maya Vfx pipeline development (form scratch)
  -Houdini Vfx pipeline development (from scratch)
  -Houdini Fluids to Maya conversion tools (binary decoder)
  -3delight ri-filters dev for foam rendering.
  -Water Shader development (SL)
  -etc.
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  Senior FX/Pipeline TD

  Starz Animation

  December 2009 - August 2011

  -Houdini Pipeline integration
  -Nuke Pipeline integration
  -Production Technical Director
  -VFX production scripts
  -Cloth Pipeline development
  -Advanced dynamics simulation
  PROJECTS :
  -Gnomeo and Juliet(2011) -Cloth/VFX TD
  -Camelot(2011) - Pipeline TD (Nuke,Houdini,Python)
  -Dolphin Tale(2011) - Pipeline TD (Nuke,Houdini,Python)

  

  
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  Visual Effects Lead/Pipeline TD

  Soho VFX

  August 2006 - December 2009

  -Visual Effects and Complex Dynamics Simulations
  -Character Setups for future films
  -Pipeline Scripting and Programming
  -R&D, look development
  PROJECTS:
  Book of Eli(2010) - VFX TD (Water,Fluids,Python)
  Dragon Ball(2009) - VFX TD (Rigid body's,Fluids,Python)
  Wolverine(2009) - VFX TD (Water,Fluids,Particles,Python)
  Incredible Hulk(2008) - VFX TD (Fluids,Cloth,Particles,Shader Dev,R&D)
  Fantastic Four(2007) - Hair TD (Shave&Haircut;,Python,Maya Hair)
  Narnia (2006) - Hair TD

  

  

  

  

  

  

• Lead Character TD/Animator

  Vogster Entertainment

  April 2006 - August 2006

  -Character Animation and Rigging
  -Developing Pipeline for Unreal 3 engine
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  Team Lead/Character TD/Animator

  GSC Game World

  May 2004 - April 2006

  - Created complex character animation for cinematics, including facial animation and muscles systems in Maya
  - MEL scripts writing
  - Working with Motion Capture Data
  - Advanced character setup for production
  - VFX animation for production
  - Cloth and dynamics simulation
  PROJECTS :
  Heroes Of Annihilated Empires - 1(2004),
  Heroes Of Annihilated Empires - 2(2005) ,
  Heroes Of Annihilated Empires - 3(2006) .

• Animator/Modeler/CharacterTD

  Nikitova LLC

  August 2001 - February 2003

  - Character animation
  - Crowd animation using artificial intelligence (AI Implant) and Maya
  - Developed production pipeline for Nikitova LLC
  - Working with Motion Capture Data
  - Advanced character setup for production and games
  - Lighting, Rendering and Compositing for short movie and commercials
  - One year worked as Maya instructor in Nikitova LLC.
  PROJECTS :
  Indiana Jones (Lucas Arts Entertainment 2001),
  Wrath Unleashed( Lucas Arts Entertainment 2002),
  Miguzi (Cartoon Networks 2003)