Patrick Almanza
Digital Compositor and Matte Painter
Senior Digital Compositor / Senior Audio Engineer/Producer/Recording Artist / 15 yrs
Los Angeles, CA
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With Stereo D, Legend 3D, Pixel Magic, and Prime Focus, I led and trained teams through the beautifying, final stages of 2D to 3D conversions including Titanic, Jurassic Park, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt.2. In fact, I've been a significant producer of pristine images for SEVEN Billion Dollar worldwide grossing movies including "The Avengers", "Iron Man 3" and "Transformers: Dark of the Moon".
My expertise goes beyond Digital Compositing and Paint for stereoscopic film. I have 2D compositing screen credits for titles such as "Love, Simon", "Speed Racer" and "Yes Man". I have produced matte paintings and composited full scenes for HD series and specials such as "Star Trek: Picard", "9-1-1", The Orville", "The Flash", "Titans", "Turn", "Bones", "Black Box" and "Life After People".
With the experience of creating a pipeline for roto and paint for stereoscopic 3D conversion with Oscar winners, I became the Roto Paint Supervisor for Encore Hollywood, a Deluxe Company. I oversaw assets for over five DC superhero shows including Leo Award winning, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightning and Titans.
Specialties: Digital image restoration techniques for live action-animation-stereoscopic motion pictures; Production-Post workflows; 2D to 3D conversion techniques; VR; Instructor of Kung Fu and expert in human physiology dynamics.
Work History
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Digital Compositor
Assembly
May 2023 - June 2023New York
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Digital Compositor
Chicken Bone FX
August 2022 - March 2023Los Angeles Metropolitan AreaCreated Matte Paintings, Painted and composited shots in Nuke for shows such as “Good Omens” and “Foundation”.
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Digital Compositor
Technicolor
May 2019 - April 2020Greater Los Angeles AreaDigital Compositing for various shows including "Picard", "What We Do in the Shadows", and "The Loudest Voice".
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Digital Compositor
Encore VFX
January 2015 - August 2018Burbank, CARoto Paint Supervisor and Digital Compositor
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Compositer/Paint Finisher
Digital Sandbox
November 2014 - November 2014Marina Del Rey, CAApplied technical and artistic fixes for finishing independent feature film.
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Compositor/Matte Painter
Look Effects
March 2014 - June 2014Marina Del Rey, CACompositing and matte painting for series television.
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Finisher - Comp/Paint
Stereo D
March 2012 - August 2013Burbank, CABeautifying and finishing depth approved stereo frames up to pristine quality.
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Lead Stereoscopic Compositor/Painter - Titanic 3D
Stereo D
December 2011 - March 2012Burbank, CAI lead and trained artists to finalize the highest quality converted 3D stereoscopic imagery in the world.
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Stereoscopic Paint/Compositing Trainer
Pixel Magic
April 2011 - April 2011Lafayette, Louisiana AreaTrained a crew of 20 on techniques of stereoscopic compositing and painting.
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Lead Stereoscopic Painter/Compositor
Legend 3D VR VFX
May 2010 - February 2011Senior Compositor utilizing Compositing and Paint software for the conversion of 2D to 3D stereoscopic.
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Matte Painter/Compositor
Flight 33 Productions
April 2009 - September 2009Creating matte paintings and compositing for the History Channel series', "Life After People" and "The Universe".
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QC Supervisor
Lowry Digital Images
2002 - 2005Led a team of restoration artists through the successful, and historic restoration of some of the most important movies of our generation, including "Sunset Blvd" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
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Education
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B.A. in Visual Arts/Studio
UC San Diego
1988 - 1993