Ivan Guerrero

Work History

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  VFX Supervisor

  Method Studios

  January 2019 - Present

  New York City
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  Method

  September 2014 - Present

• Owner

  Chickpea Media

  January 2010 - Present

• Technical Director

  NYC area

  2005 - Present

  New York, NY

  Working as freelance technical director at The Mill, MPC, Framestore, Hornet, Superfad, Absolute Post, and Click3x as a Technical Director doing everything from FX, lighting, compositing, fur, hair and cloth simulations, crowd simulations, look development, pipeline and tools development, and r&d using both of the shelf and proprietary software.
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  VFX Supervisor

  Method Studios

  June 2021 - July 2022

  New York
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  Senior CG Supervisor

  Method Studios

  January 2015 - December 2018

  New York CIty

  Work with the VFX supervisors, leads and heads of departments to define the creative and technical approach for shows, asses R&D required for the show, work with production to manage the day to day running of the team, work with production to evaluate artist schedules ensuring they are realistic and achievable, attend desk rounds with all members of the team on a regular basis, attend dailies sessions with the team to give feedback/approvals, meet with the leads on the show on a regular basis to identify inefficiencies or technical problems with the tool

  
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  Lighting TD

  Method Studios

  September 2013 - December 2014

  New York, New York

  Lighting TD on feature films

  

  

  

  

• Technical Director

  Americn Musem of Natural History

  April 2013 - September 2013

  New York, NY

  Technical Director for the new “The Dark Universe” planetarium show.
  Technical animations of flight from earth to the edge of the observable universe using latest scientific data sets, lighting and compositing of those elements, cloth simulations for parachute deployment of the Galileo probe sent to Jupiter. Houdini, Nuke, Maya, and rendered with Mantra.
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  FX Technical Director

  Framestore

  2010 - April 2013

  New York, NY

  Worked as an FX Technical Director in the film department on "The Smurfs", "The Dictator", "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
  Worked as an FX Technical Director in the commerciala department on campaigns for Nintendo, AT&T, EA, Coors, and Chase

  

  

  

• Visual Effects Supervisor -- "The History of Future Folk"

  Chickpea Media

  September 2011 - December 2011

  New York, NY

  Supervised a small team of artists to create shots for the indie cult film "The History of Future Folk".
  Additional responsibilities included compositing several of the shots requiring clean up, creating color grading LUT's and dailies review system
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  Technical Dirctor

  Superfad

  2010 - 2010
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  Instructor

  Parsons the New School for Design

  January 2008 - 2010

  Teaching 3D lighting to undergraduate and graduate students
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  Senior Technical Director

  RhinoFX

  2007 - December 2009

  Effects and Lighting Technical Director

  
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  Senior TD

  My Active Driveway

  October 2006 - January 2007
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  Lighting TD

  Charlex

  April 2006 - September 2006
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  Lead Technical Director, Hair and Rendering

  Curious Pictures

  April 2005 - February 2006

  
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  DNA Sequencing Lab Technician

  Boston Children's Hospital

  1996 - 1998
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  DNA Sequencing Lab Technician

  Boston Children's Hospital

  1996 - 1998