Francisco Massanet

Work History

• IT Specialist

  Sant Llorenc city Hall

  June 2005 - October 2006

  Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain · On-site

  • Created small tools to increase the speed of recollecting data for their database.
  • Develop and maintain their website.
  • Coding in HTML, PHP and Java.
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  Senior Character Animator

  Blackbird Interactive

  August 2023 - February 2024

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Remote

  Key hand Animation for metahumans and some mocap as well, for Homeworld 3.
  
  Took over my lead when he was away.
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  Senior Character Animator

  beloFX

  January 2023 - August 2023

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Remote

  Mission impossible 8.
  Star wars series.
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  Senior Animator

  Animal Logic

  March 2022 - December 2022

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  Netflix Leo animated feature.
  ALAB open source project.
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  Cinematic animator

  Blackbird Interactive Inc

  April 2020 - March 2022

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • Minecraft cinematics.
  • Achieving complex emotions through simple shapes.
  • Took over the lead position when the lead was away.
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  3d animation instructor

  InFocus film School

  March 2020 - April 2020

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Guided and taught students to achieve high quality animations.
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  Character Animator

  Animal Logic

  September 2019 - January 2020

  Sydney, Australia

  Achieved high quality animations in some of the most challenging shots so far in my career for "Peter Rabbit 2". Delivering in a very short period of time, over 11 final shots plus another 11 that were cut out of the movie in the final edit.

  
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  Character Animator

  Animism Studios

  June 2019 - August 2019

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Achieved high quality animation for some dinosaur project with the complexity of being a minute long with no camera movement.
  Second project I worked on, was a really cartoon project delivering over two shots per week,
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  Character Animator

  Cinesite

  March 2019 - May 2019

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Joined the team towards the end of the project and helped bringing high quality acting and some of the most cartoon shots to that moment for "The Addams family". 
  Brought some great ideas that made more interesting and entertaining all shots.
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  Character Animator

  MPC

  April 2018 - March 2019

  London, United Kingdom

  Assisted with pre production and to define some of the characters movements.
  Achieved final shots for "The one and only Ivan (2020)". With very realistic creature motion in a very wide variety of animals.
  Helped with some animations for "Maleficent 2" as well.
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  Character Animator

  Cinesite

  December 2016 - March 2018

  Montreal, quebec, Canada

  The most challenging project, was "The star" as we only had 6 months to do the whole movie with high quality animations and complex acting.
  Worked on "Trouble" and Marvel's "Ant man and the wasp".

  

  
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  Character Animator

  Method Studios

  January 2016 - December 2016

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Achieved high quality animation for a "Okja" with, still, some of my favorites shots.
  Worked on "King Arthur: Legend of the sword", working with a mix of hand key animation and some mocap.

  

  
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  Stereo lead

  Gener8 Media Corp

  April 2014 - January 2016

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Give constant feedback and review of the stereo department and also other departments, to be able to achieve a high quality result for our clients.
  Oversaw and trained new team members and helped developed new tools and pipeline.

  

  

  
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  Stereoscopic artist

  Gener8 Media Corp

  December 2012 - April 2014

  Vancouver y alrededores, Canadá

  Quality control of the provided assets from the other 5 departments. Setup of the stereo cameras in order to match client desire depth in each shot. Review of the provided assets from the vfx vendors. Follow up clean up of the shot and final control quality. Work hand by hand with tech department to make the pipeline and process faster and better.
  
  Iron Man 3, Thor the dark world, 300 - Rise of an empire.
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  Stereograph

  Global Mechanic

  April 2013 - June 2013

  - In charge of stereo process, stereoscopic decisions and camera setup for “Impromptu”.
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  Rotomation assistant lead

  Gener8 Media Corp

  October 2010 - December 2012

  Vancouver y alrededores, Canadá

  -Co-ordinated and helped to build a team from 4 people up to 35 as a lead.
  -Creation of assets, layouts, modelling, rigging and animation.
  -Oversaw and trained new team members.

• Teacher

  EDA

  November 2007 - October 2010

  Mallorca - Spain

  Video edition and basic composition courses.

• Animator

  LADAT (UIB)

  October 2007 - February 2009

  Mallorca - Spain

  Animation, lighting, rigging, textures, modeling, composition and video edition. Worked on a pilot for a tv show, a museum exposition (Animar.te)
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  Animator

  Freelance

  January 2008 - May 2008

  Made the CG for a comercial for the brand Revlon.