Ivan Guerrero

Ivan Guerrero

Supervisor VFX Supervisor / 22 yrs

New York City

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Visual Effects Supervisor

Eternals (2021)

Music CG Supervisor

Camila Cabello: Consequences (2018)

CG Supervisor

Deadpool 2 (2018)

CG Supervisor

Black Panther (2018)

CG Supervisor

12 Strong (2018)

Music CG Supervisor

Justin Timberlake: Filthy (2018)

CG Supervisor

Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Visual Effects Supervisor

High Maintenance (2016)

lighting TD

Project Almanac (2015)

FX Technical Director

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

Visual Effects Supervisor

The History of Future Folk (2013)

FX Technical Director

The Dictator (2012)

The Smurfs (2011)

FX TD

Ghost Town (2009)

Graphic Designer

I Am Legend (2007)

Music Lighter

Kanye West: Stronger (2007)

TD

Chicago 10 (2007)

Lead Technical Director

Barbie Diaries (2006)

Work History

  • VFX Supervisor

    Method Studios

    January 2019 - Present
    New York City

  • 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.

  • VFX Supervisor

    Method Studios

    June 2021 - July 2022
    New York

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Technical Dirctor

    Superfad

    2010 - 2010

  • Instructor

    Parsons the New School for Design

    January 2008 - 2010

    Teaching 3D lighting to undergraduate and graduate students

  • Senior Technical Director

    RhinoFX

    2007 - December 2009

    Effects and Lighting Technical Director

  • Senior TD

    My Active Driveway

    October 2006 - January 2007

  • Lighting TD

    Charlex

    April 2006 - September 2006

  • Lead Technical Director, Hair and Rendering

    Curious Pictures

    April 2005 - February 2006

  • DNA Sequencing Lab Technician

    Boston Children's Hospital

    1996 - 1998

  • DNA Sequencing Lab Technician

    Boston Children's Hospital

    1996 - 1998
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Education

  • University of Colorado Boulder

    1998 - 2000

  • Vassar College

    1992 - 1996