Facundo Lavenia

Work History

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  Sr lighter and compositor

  Skydance Animation

  February 2021 - April 2022

  Madrid, Spain

  

  

  
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  Sr lighter and compositor

  Boulder Media

  July 2020 - October 2020

  Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

  Worked as a Sr lighter and compositor for Boulder media on this amazing project

  
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  Sr Lighter

  Grid VFX

  April 2014 - August 2014

  Gent Area, Belgium

  Sr lighter on the animated feature film "Two by Two"
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  Lighting Lead

  Able&Baker;

  May 2023 - June 2023

  Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain · On-site

  Worked on cinematic for a superhero series project.
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  Academic Tutor

  ANIMUM Creativity Advanced School

  May 2022 - Present

  Spain
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  Sr lighter and compositor

  Skydance Animation

  November 2020 - May 2022

  First project I got involved on when I started working for Skydance animation. I have worked as a Sr lighter and comper under Eduardo Casado supervision. Always a pleasure to work with this amazing guy!
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  Sr lighter and compositor

  Skydance Animation

  November 2020 - Present

  On-site
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  Sr lighter and compositor

  Double Negative

  May 2022 - March 2023

  

  
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  look dev supervisor

  Grid VFX

  November 2018 - December 2019

  Gent Area, Belgium

  

• Sr Lighter, look dev & compositing artist

  Freelance Sr Lighter, look dev & compositing artist

  November 2017 - October 2018

  Argentina

  During this period I have done the lookdev, lighting and compositing of several commercials and cinematics for different studios as a freelancer.
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  Sr Lighter

  Grid VFX

  April 2017 - August 2017

• Sr Lighter & compositing artist

  Freelance Sr Lighter & compositing artist

  July 2016 - March 2017

  Argentina

  During this time I have worked for the following studios: Gizmo, Bitt animation, Le cube.
  During this period I have done the lighting and compositing of several commercials and cinematics for different studios as a freelancer.
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  lighting supervisor

  Grid VFX

  November 2015 - May 2016

  Gent Area, Belgium

  Lighting supervisor for the animated feature "Deep", directed by Julio Soto

• Sr Lighter and compositor

  Freelance Sr Lighter and compositor

  November 2014 - October 2015

  Argentina

  During this time I have worked for the following studios: Gizmo, Mundo loco, The mill/Bitt animation, Tronco.
  During this period I have done the lighting and compositing of some tv-series teaser, several commercials and a short film.
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  Sr Lighter

  Grid VFX

  May 2014 - August 2014

  Gent Area, Belgium

  Sr lighter on the animated feature film "Ooops, Noah is gone"
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  Sr Generalist

  Barraca Post

  October 2013 - March 2014

  Buenos Aires
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  Sr. Lighter

  Catmandu

  May 2012 - July 2013

  METEGOL (RELEASED 2013 | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1634003/)
  -Lighting, render and stereoscopic compositing of shots on the first animated movie from the
  Academy award winner Juan Campanella.
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  3d generalist

  Barraca Post

  February 2008 - April 2011

  Argentina

  -3d generalist, supervisor of all the Cg in some pieces and responsible of the animatic, tracking,
  camera movement, modeling, shading and lighting in others.
  Including clients such as Coke, Fanta, Toyota and Budweiser.

• 3d supervisor

  Patagonik Film Group

  June 2006 - May 2007

  Argentina

  El arca (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1068997/)
  -Supervisor for the all the 3d elements and vfx of the movie, from pre-production until
  compositing.
  -Development of shading and necessary aesthetics to match the 2d animated animation and bgs.
  -Supervision of several 3d artist within the studio and freelance artist as well.
  -Compositing collaborator

• 3d generalist - Digital compositing

  Patagonik Film Group

  January 2004 - May 2006

  El raton Perez 2 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1058781/)
  -Compositing of several shots with chroma keys and some camera tracking to integrate cg
  elements with live action footages
  
  El raton Perez (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458076/)
  -Camera Tracking of live action shots and scene set up into Xsi to animate characters and also
  to integrate cg elements with live action footages
  -3d generalist of props and objects from the backgrounds
  -Compositor of multiple shots integrating 3d and live action footages
  
  Yo-rhad, un amico dallo spazio (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1225899)
  -3d generalist doing vehicles, props and effects to integrate with the 2d animation aesthetics
  -Compositor of multiple shots integrating cg elements with 2d animation.
  
  Patoruzito (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390350/)
  -Digital paint with Toonz
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  Digital compositor

  Shazam Productions

  August 2003 - January 2004

  Argentina

  Teo, cazador intergalactico (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424488/)
  -Scanning, cleanup, digital paint and compositing of final shots with Toonz