Juan Correa

Work History

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  Senior Software Engineer

  Unity

  October 2022 - December 2023

  Wellington, New Zealand
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  Weta Digital logo Creature Puppet Technical Director

  Wētā FX

  October 2022 - December 2023

  Wellington, New Zealand
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  Facial TD

  Wētā FX

  May 2021 - September 2022

  Wellington, NZ
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  Lead / Senior Creature TD

  ReDefine

  October 2020 - April 2021

  Montreal, CA
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  Creature TD

  Wētā FX

  October 2017 - October 2020

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Creature TD

  Double Negative

  October 2016 - September 2017

  

  
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  rigger

  Framestore

  May 2013 - October 2016

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Lecturer

  ANIMUM Creativity Advanced School

  January 2016 - December 2016

  London, United Kingdom

  10/16 - 12/16 - Online lecturer, Introduction to Muscle setups and skin simulation in Maya.
  11/15 - 01/16 - Tutor for the second module of the online Rigging course.
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  guest lecturer

  Bournemouth University

  June 2015 - June 2016

  Bournemouth, United Kingdom

  June 2016 - Two day rigging workshop on Quadruped Rigging for the 3D Computer Animation Masters students. Covering production rigging techniques for control transforms, spine, legs and neck structures.
  
  June 2015 - Two day rigging workshop on Facial Rigging for the 3D Computer Animation Masters students. Covering facial anatomy, rigging techniques, and facs setups for vfx production rigs.
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  Rigger TD

  Prime Focus World

  July 2012 - May 2013

  Rigging TD in Film at Prime Focus.
  Prototyping and scripting deformation and rigging tools, as well as general purpose rigging libraries.
  Maya and Python. Creating high detailed rigs for creatures, vehicles and digital doubles; plus cloth simulation.

  
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  Rigger TD

  MPC

  October 2011 - May 2012

  Rigging TD in Film at Moving Picture Company.
  Creating rigs for creatures, digi-doubles and vehicles as well as prototyping deformation tools. Scripting rigs in MEL within a proprietary rigging pipeline and library.

  

  

  

  

  

• Character TD

  Rebel Alliance FX

  June 2011 - December 2011

  Lead Character TD on the feature film Dracula (2012). Making rigs and deformations for creatures as well as transformation systems for the Dracula digi-double (Remote Work) - https://www.rebelalliancefx.com/

• Rigger

  Think Silly

  January 2008 - December 2011

  Over four years I worked remotely for Think Silly as Character TD - Rigger and Generalist in various TV Adverts, Music Videos and Short Films. Mostly I created Rigs for a great variety of characters, from toon / shaded / cartoony, to realistic digi-doubles - https://www.think-silly.com/

• Rigger / Generalist

  Digitaline

  September 2008 - December 2010

  Character TD - Rigger and Generalist in various TV Adverts and Short Films. I modelled both hard surface and organic characters in several projects; rigged robots, humans and creatures, and did simulations for liquids and particle effects (Remote Work) - https://digitaline.fr/

• Character TD / Rigger

  mBanga studio

  February 2008 - September 2010

  Over more than two years I worked as Character TD - Rigger in various TV Adverts, Music Videos and Short Films (Remote Work) - https://www.mbangastudio.com/

• CG Generalist

  Unreel Production

  March 2009 - August 2010

  Generalist in several TV Adverts doing layout, texturing and modelling (Remote Work) - https://www.unreel.fr/

• Character Rigger

  A Droit de la Lune

  May 2009 - May 2010

  Character Rigger in the Short Film "Mice (a Cat) and Men". I rigged all the main and secondary characters of the film, as well as some props. A few rigs where a collaborative effort in-between me and the Lead Animator (Remote Work) - https://www.adroitedelalune.com/
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  3D Instructor

  Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

  January 2008 - March 2008

  3D Animation Teacher for the 3rd and 4th year students of the Visual Arts Major - https://sparta.javeriana.edu.co/

• CG Generalist

  Caracol Television

  June 2007 - August 2007

  Promotional Videos and TV Show Title Sequences - https://www.caracoltv.com/
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  Character TD

  Proxima

  February 2007 - March 2007

  "Etruskan Mask"'s Crow sequences TD. Created the Crow rig and the flocking simulation system, as well as shading and rendering - https://www.proximasfx.com/

• SOFTIMAGE|XSI tutor

  Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia

  August 2006 - December 2006

  Second year's 3D courses tutor. Generic 3D and kinematics - https://www.csc-cinematografia.it/
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  SOFTIMAGE|XSI guest tutor

  Istituto Europeo di Design

  November 2006 - November 2006

  Guest tutor at Enea Le Fons's SOFTIMAGE|XSI course - https://www.ied.it/Network/Milano/

• Character TD

  Lumiq Studios

  September 2006 - November 2006

  Opening sequence Character TD - https://www.lumiq.com/