Javier Soler de Cárcer

Work History

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  Senior Lighter & Compositor

  Illusorium Animation Studios

  November 2024 - January 2025

  Madrid, Spain

  - Sky: The Two Embers | thatgamecompany
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  Lead Digital Compositor

  Massive Assembly

  August 2024 - October 2024

  - The Drive // 2024 VALORANT Game Changers Championship Hype Film | Riot Games
  
  Compositing of 2D/CEL animated shots:
  - Formulate, design and establish the workflow between Compositing and the 2D departments: project directories, naming convention, color management, layering, version system
  - Template design, including 2.5D setup for camera projections, camera rig, lens FX, and smart output write nodes
  - Production tracking on asset and shot level
  - Team management
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  Lead Lighting Artist

  Illusorium Animation Studios

  January 2025 - April 2025

  Madrid, Spain
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  Senior Lighter & Compositor

  Axis Animation

  June 2024 - July 2024
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  Lighting & Compositing Supervisor

  Firelight Animation Studio

  February 2024 - Present

  Supervising Lighting & Compositing for Firelight's animated feature IP (teaser)
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  Lighter & Digital Compositor

  Axis Animation

  September 2023 - April 2024

  Eyes of Wakanda | Marvel Animation
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  Senior Digital Compositor

  Illusorium Animation Studios

  June 2023 - July 2023

  Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, España · Hybrid
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  Lighter

  Mikros Animation

  March 2023 - June 2023

  Lighting (Katana, Arnold) for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem" (2023)
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  Lighter

  Mikros Animation

  June 2022 - March 2023

  Paris, France

  Lighting (Katana - Arnold) for "The Tiger's Apprentice" (2024, Paramount Animation)
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  Senior Digital Compositor

  El Guiri Studios

  July 2022 - October 2022

  Digital compositing for "Sith", first episode of Star Wars: Visions vol. II (2023) at El Guiri Studios, led by award-winning animator and director Rodrigo Blaas
  
  Other responsibilities:
  - Color management (ACES)
  - Ensure correct rendering specs and format for delivery
  - Ramp up new artists
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  Lighter & Compositor

  Skydance Animation

  March 2021 - May 2022

  Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, España · Remote

  Lighting and compositing for Skydance Animation's first animated feature "Luck"
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  Digital Compositor

  Jellyfish Pictures

  November 2020 - March 2021

  Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido · Remote

  Digital compositing for "Spirit Untamed" (DreamWorks Animation)

  
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  Digital Compositor

  Telson

  February 2020 - August 2020

  Madrid

  Digital compositing for TV and film
  
  - The Head (2020), TV series (5 episodes)
  - An optical illusion (2020), film

  

• Digital Compositor

  Blackout Postproducción

  November 2019 - February 2020

  Madrid

  Digital compositing for TV shows and advertising
  
  - El cielo puede esperar (season 2, 8 episodes)
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  Render Wrangler

  The SPA Studios (Sergio Pablos Animation)

  February 2019 - October 2019

  Madrid

  I've been a part of the amazing Pipeline crew during the production of Klaus (2019)
  
  As the studio's wrangler, I've been responsible of the management, maintenance and optimization of the render farm resources. A lot of this duties were achieved in conjunction with the IT department
  
  Other functions:
  - Assisting the pipeline supervisor in tasks such as: managing/fixing publishings in Shotgun, archiving, packing final deliveries for Netflix
  
  - Technical assistance in Nuke, Maya and ToonBoom Harmony: scene debugging and optimization for better performance and rendering
  
  - SWAT team: a bunch of very talented guys getting creative and technical to solve some of the more complicated shots in the film (usually involving complex camera moves, creation of setups for projection of environments, etc)
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  Digital Compositor / Technical Director

  Illusorium Animation Studios

  October 2015 - February 2019

  Madrid

  Digital Compositor: compositing animation and VFX in Nuke for films, advertising and TV. 2D & 3D compositing, roto and chroma keying, matchmoving (2D/3D tracking), integration of CGI elements
  
  Pipeline TD: workflow design, integration and optimization. Solving of pipeline related issues
  
  Render TD: responsible for render set-up and optimization, controlling every render process (in-house and through farm service)
  
  Scene Assembly TD: asset/scene management, optimization and delivery for artists, monitoring their path along the studio pipeline
  
  3D Generalist: diverse tasks including modelling, shading & texturing, layout, lighting and render in different projects according to production needs
  
  These are some of the feature films and TV series I've worked in:
  - En las estrellas (2018), film
  - Errementari (2017), film
  - Mist & the Maiden (2017), film
  - Smoking Club 129 normas (2017), film
  - Félix (2018), TV series
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  Junior Digital Compositor

  Telson

  July 2015 - September 2015

  Madrid

  VFX compositing in Nuke for feature films and TV series.
  
  2D/3D compositing, rotoscoping, matchmoving, chroma keying, 3D tracking.
  
  - Cien años de perdón (2016), film
  - El Incidente (2017), TV series
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  Layout Intern

  Ilion Animation Studios

  March 2015 - May 2015

  Madrid

  Performed trainee program along Layout Artists and TDs during 'Wonder Park' production for Paramount. During the last two weeks of the program I was allowed to provide assistance to artists and TDs.

• Multimedia Content Producer

  FRISO Decoración

  April 2014 - November 2014

  Las Rozas de Madrid y alrededores, España

  Developing and executing production and postproduction plans for corporate design, product photography and videos for website, online shop and social networks.
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  Production Assistant

  Antena 3

  July 2013 - September 2013

  Internship at Antena 3 Noticias (news department) as Production Assistant and labours of Floor Manager as well for the live news program/talk show "Espejo Público".
  Functions: editing various film clips, VTR, assisting editors in special needs, assisting coordination between Production and Postproduction teams.
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  Intern

  AxiCom

  December 2012 - March 2013

  Madrid

  Internship program at the multinational communication agency.
  Functions: media monitoring, publishing press releases and delivering for media, data-base maintenance, translations, telephone service.