Carol Cánovas

Work History

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  Senior Compositor and Lighting artist

  Jellyfish Pictures

  July 2024 - October 2024
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  Lead Compositor

  Axis Animation

  November 2023 - June 2024
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  Senior Compositor and Lighting artist

  Axis Animation

  August 2023 - November 2023

  

  

  
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  Senior Compositor

  Mikros Animation

  January 2023 - June 2023

  Madrid, Spain

  
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  Senior Compositor and Lighting artist

  Axis Animation

  March 2021 - December 2022

  Madrid, Spain

  During my time at Axis I’ve worked on a wide range of projects in quick succession that have all had a huge variety in style, from hyper realistic cinematics to more heavily 2D stylised trailers. Whilst I’ve mainly been a Compositor, for the last 10 months I’ve actually also started to do lighting in Houdini for some of my own shots as well.
  
  
  As my tasks vary a lot depending on the project, I have regularly had the responsibility of:
  
  
  - Character look development.
  - Setting up the look of different sequences.
  - Having to give 3D characters a heavily stylised look.
  - Heavy 2DFX integrations.
  - Check and fix technical issues.
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  Lead Compositor

  Jellyfish Pictures

  November 2020 - March 2021

  Spirit Untamed (2021) - DreamWorks
  
  During my time as Lead at Jellyfish I have been in charge of a team of 8 people. I had several responsibilities including Look development; doing mastershots and setting up templates; shot allocation; leading dailies and attending client meetings.
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  Senior Compositor

  Jellyfish Pictures

  June 2020 - November 2020

  Working on a DreamWorks Animation Feature Film

• Digital Compositor

  La Livinstong

  January 2020 - March 2020

  Madrid, Spain

  The Ministry of Time, season 4 (2020) - HBO
  
  My responsibilities while I was working on The Ministry of Time were focused in doing green screen removal and DMP placement using projections within 3D space.
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  Digital Compositor

  MPC

  October 2019 - December 2019

  London, Reino Unido

  Cats (2019) - Universal
  
  The main task I was doing consisted of using deep compositing, doing heavy CG integration, a lot of warping to match the CG to the plate and green screen removal.
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  Digital Compositor

  The SPA Studios (Sergio Pablos Animation)

  January 2019 - September 2019

  Madrid

  Klaus (2019) - Netflix
  
  My time on Klaus is divided into two main tasks. The first of them, being more technical, consists of combining all 2D and 3D elements within a shot, often within 3D space using projections and exported cameras, so that everything matches correctly according to Layout and so shots can be moved more efficiently through the following departments. The second task, being more artistic, consists of integrating all rendered layers together in an effort to give even 3D elements a 2D painterly feel. most importantly, working on this project has taught me the value of perseverance through technical problem solving and a heavy integration processes.
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  Digital Compositor

  Jellyfish Pictures

  March 2018 - December 2018

  London, United Kingdom

  The Floogals Season 2 (2018)
  
  Working across two different projects, one being fully CG and the other a mix between CG and live action, allowed me to learn industry standard working practices and to gain a good understanding of a proffesional production pipeline. Some of my responsabilities included taking shots through from the beginning to the end, having to keep consistency throughout all sequences (grading wise), CG and FX integration into live action plates, clean up and roto to remove wires and clean plates, creating comp effects (using 2D and 3D methods) and tracking of 3D elements to achieve a better integration with the plates.
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  Junior Compositor

  Jellyfish Pictures

  July 2017 - March 2018

  London, United Kingdom

  Dennis and Gnasher: Unleashed (2017)
  
  
  Some of my responsibilities were taking shots through from the beginning to the end, having to keep consistency throughout all sequences and creating comp effects (using 2D and 3D methods).
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  Render Wrangler intern and Compositor assistant

  Lightbox Animation Studios

  March 2017 - April 2017

  Madrid Area, Spain

  During my time here I had to manage render queues efficiently using deadline render manager as well as having to check all AOVs for any errors. Additionally A had to troubleshoot any technical problems within existing nuke scripts and also help to render steoroscopic versions of shots for the 3D edition of the film.
  Whilst here I learnt to be organised and how to prioritise my tasks in accordance to urgency and importance.
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  Image Technician

  Infomix TV

  October 2014 - October 2015

  Madrid Area, Spain

  I produced reports of entertainment and news, I moved to cover premiers, shows and awards. I was responsible for recording and the postproduction process.
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  Radio Broadcaster

  Rey Juan Carlos University

  September 2014 - June 2015

  Madrid Area, Spain

  I worked in "Mundos Ocultos" program, I was responsible for writing and locution.