Eduardo Graña

Work History

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  Pipeline Technical Director

  Wonder Dynamics

  July 2023 - Present

  Helping brilliant people do cool things in the cinematography field using Machine Learning, USD and more.
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  Professor

  U-tad

  January 2020 - Present

  Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

  Lecture on 2.5D Animation Pipelines for the M.A. in Production Direction.
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  Pipeline Supervisor

  Able&Baker;

  July 2022 - November 2023

  Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, España

  Working on an Unreal Engine and USD Pipeline.
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  TD Supervisor

  Skydance Animation

  September 2020 - July 2022

  Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

  Working on a USD + Solaris Pipeline for "Spelbound" and all future animated features at Skydance.
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  Pipeline Supervisor

  The SPA Studios (Sergio Pablos Animation)

  November 2018 - September 2020

  Madrid Area, Spain

  Responsible for pipeline, tools and technical direction department for the movie Klaus.

• Freelance Technical Director, Developer and Consultant

  eduardoGrana.com

  January 2004 - September 2020

  Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

  I'm woking on and off as a freelance Character Rigger, Pipeline TD, Generalist TD or Python Developer. I generally Autodesk Maya, Mel, Pyhton and PyQT and Nuke. I've also done some collaborations.
  
  Some Projects:
  .Character Rigging for Gizmo's Pervinox add.
  .Character Rigging for Pepper Melon's Sparkies project
  .Development of Assembly's Proprietary Character Pipeline.
  .Character and Mechanical Rigging and Hair Simulation for Gizmo on Beldent Advertising
  .Aditional Character Rigging for Flamboyant Paradise on Quilmes Proyect.
  .Pipeline Tools for In Post We Trust.
  .Pipeline Tools for Gizmo Studio, including cache manager system and stereo camera setup.
  .Character Rigging for Pickle Studio
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  Senior Pipeline programmer

  The SPA Studios

  July 2017 - October 2018

  Madrid, Spain
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  Principal software developer

  Ilion Animation Studios

  November 2015 - July 2017

  Las Rozas De Madrid Area, Spain
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  Techinal director/ rigger

  NGD Studios

  April 2015 - November 2015

  Buenos Aires, Argentina
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  Pipeline TD

  ONER Vfx

  February 2014 - October 2015

  Working on the pipeline for the movie Hands of Stone.

• Technichal Director

  SINEMA

  March 2014 - March 2015

  Working on Character Rigging and Pipeline for the tv series Cubia Ninja

• Instructor

  puntocine

  April 2013 - January 2015

  Giving some courses on pipelines for CG animation.

• Freelance Technical Director

  WOWstudio

  August 2013 - December 2013

  Buenos Aires

  FOX Pilotos por la seguridad 2.
  Football Character for Zupcat games.
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  Technical Director

  Wow Studio

  July 2013 - November 2013

  Buenos Aires, Argentina

  FOX Pilotos por la seguridad 2.
  Football Character for Zupcat games.
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  Technical Director

  La Sociedad Post

  November 2012 - August 2013

  Buenos Aires

  Doing some Rigging, some Scripts and Pipeline Tools and some Simulations for YPF Ases al Volante, and did some Nuke Pipeline tools for El Hombre de las Dificultades.
  Also worked as Stereo TD for the stereo version of YPF Ases al volante.
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  Freelance Technical Director

  Assembly

  September 2011 - December 2012

  I do:
  Character Rigging and effects.
  Maya and Pipeline tools.
  Projects:
  .Character Rigging for Gizmo's Pervinox add.
  .Character Rigging for Pepper Melon's Sparkies project
  .Development of Assembly's Proprietary Character Pipeline.
  .Character and Mechanical Rigging and Hair Simulation for Gizmo on Beldent Advertising
  .Aditional Character Rigging for Flamboyant Paradise on Quilmes Proyect.
  .Pipeline Tools for In Post We Trust.
  .Pipeline Tools for Gizmo Studio, including cache manager system and stereo camera setup.
  .Character Rigging for Pickle Studio
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  Technical Director

  Catmandu

  October 2010 - October 2012

  Working at Catmandu for Campanella's cg animation movie called 'Metegol' as td, currently doing pipeline stuff and maya tools,
  using mainly python and pyqt.
  https://www.youtube.com/user/metegolpelicula

• Freelance Technical Director

  eduardoGrana.com.ar

  February 2010 - September 2011

  .Freelance Aditional Rigging for Onkis Commercials working with Nico Rossi for Gizmo
  .Freelance Aditional Rigging for Fravega Commercials working with Nico Rossi for Reino
  .Freelance Character Rigger for Mexana working with Nico Rossi at Reino
  .Freelance Mel Script Mentor at Reino.
  .Freelance Character Rigger for Che Revolution Post.
  .Freelance Pipeline TD for Muu Cine.
  .Freelance Character Rigger working with Nico Rossi for Gizmo
  .Freelance Pipeline TD for L'Orange Gutan.
  .Freelance Character Rigger for Luchetti working with Nico Rossi at Reino
  .Freelance Particle FX TD for Supradyn at Reino
  .Freelance Character Rigger at Catmandu for Campanella's 'Futbolin' animation film
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  Freelance Technical Director

  Wow Studio

  March 2010 - October 2010

  Rigging Clemente for World Cup 2010 spots
  Rigging of Sindol's Character .
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  Creature Technichal Director

  Wētā FX

  May 2009 - December 2009

  I worked on cloth a hair simulations for the Characters Jake, Tsutey and Moat for James Cameron's Avatar.

  
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  Lead Technical Director

  Illusion Studios

  August 2005 - April 2009

  Buenos Aires

  Lead Technical Director for animation movies like
  
  .Patoruzito 2, la gran aventura.
  .Isidoro, la pelicula
  .Boogie,el aceitoso
  .Gaturro
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  3d artist

  Non Stop TV

  April 2004 - July 2005

  Worked for Disney´s Jetix Channel. Did Modelling Rigging Animating & rendering of Id´s and instertitials of "J" (the chromed ball character)