José María Andrés Martín
Email: alzhem
@
gmail.com
Website: www.alzhem.com
Demoreel: http://demoreel2007.alzhem.com
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| Job Experience |
- Senior Generalist at The Mill
(London) - (February 2010 - Date)
- Senior Generalist at Superfad
(London) - (January 2010)
- Senior Generalist at Academy Award
Nominated animation studio Nexus Productions (London) - (January
2008 - December 2009)
- Senior 3DS MAX Generalist with a wide
knowledge on the whole creative and productive process from the
2D animatics to the final product.
- Used to work with complex pipelines
- Expert in shading,
lighting and rendering with different render engines. Also good
skills in modelling, texturing, VFX, composition and post
production.
- "Finisher " at RealtimeUK
(Preston, Lancashire) - generalist specialized global finishing (July
2006 - January 2008)
- One of the most active employees looking for
new ideas to improve the company (ALE Meetings, advertising and
production ideas, etc.)
- Mentor of part of the new staff teaching
- Low-Poly Modeler
to build a car
for GAGE (this is part of a project for MSN GAGE developed) (2008)
- Modeler and texturer
for the Rez-Up
process of Verminator (cinematic scenes of the game based in the
movie by DreamWorks ‘Over The Hedge’), Cinematico Inc. (2006)
- Architectural model 3D-Printing preparation for a
Hotel Complex in Dubai, Foncocreative (2006)
- Teacher of “Virtual Design and
Advanced Animation”. CESINE (2005/06)
- Teacher
of the GRAFIA S.A.'s
staff (www.grafia.es) in Advanced Lighting and VRay
- Animator
for the TRANSPORTS and
COMMUNICATIONS GENERAL DIRECTION of the CANTABRIA GOVERNMENT (Spain)
- Computer Graphics Consultant for VISUAL y GRAFICA
(www.visualygrafica.net) since 2004
- Lecturer of the “Advanced Texturing Seminar”,
TRAZOS (www.trazos.net) (01/07/2004)
- Lecturer of the “Advanced Lighting Seminar”,
TRAZOS (www.trazos.net) (30/04/2004)
- Employee at CENTRAL Multimagen
(www.multimagen.es) (2004)
- Image composition assistance for the civil
engineering firm “ARENAS Y ASOCIADOS" (www.arenasing.com) (2003)
- Modeler and animator consultor for the civil
engineering firm "APIA XXI" (www.apiaxxi.es) since 2000
- Graphics Designer of www.rincondelvago.com &
www.paisdelocos.com websites during 2001
- Lecturer of the seminar “Introduction to 3D
animation and modeling using 3D MAX 3” at Salamanca University,
February 2001
- Private drawing and computer teaching (2000)
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| Education |
- "Master
in Animation" with MAYA 5.0 and SoftImage XSI 3.5,
"TRAZOS, School of Arts".
- The highest grades of his promotion (MAYA:
9/10, XSI: 9/10).
- Teacher of the lessons about lighting before
finishing his course.
- Once finished the master, lecturer of two
seminars about "Advanced texturing" and "Advanced lighting".
- Offered a permanent
position as a teacher at the school.
- 1998-2003: Bachelor
Degree in Fine Arts, Salamanca University.
- Developed his volume and colour sense as
well as his drawing skills.
- Organizer and lecturer
of the seminar “Introduction to 3D animation and modelling using
3D MAX 3” while still studying.
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| Publications and Awards |
- “Choose your Captures” used by BOXX for one of
their advertising campaigns (2008)
- “Fireflies: a Bad/Light Digestion” used by INTEL
for one of their advertising campaigns (2008)
- CG Talk´s "CG Choice Award" and Evermotion´s "The
Best of Evermotion Award"- “Choose your Captures” (2007)
- 3D World Magazine (05/2006) - (UK)
- EXPOSÉ 4 (2006) - Ballistic (Australia) - “Fireflies:
a Bad/Light Digestion”
- EXPOSÉ 3 (2005) - Ballistic (Australia) - “The
Incredible Power of Myopia”
- Exploring 3D Modeling with 3ds max 7 (Steven Till, 2005) -
Thomson-Delmar Learning Publishing (USA)
- TODO 3D Magazine (Spain, 2004) - Tutorials
published on issues #44, 46 and 47
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| Computer Knowledge |
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PHOTO and TEXTURE EDITION
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* Adobe Photoshop CS4 (main skill)
*
Filter Forge
1.0 (active betatester and own license)
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3D PACKAGES
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* Alias MAYA 2009
* Avid SoftImage XSI
7
* Discreet 3D Studio MAX 2009 (main skill)
- VRay 1.50 (betatester
and own license - main skill)
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finalRender Stage 1 R2.0 (main skill)
- Brazil
2
* Pixologic
ZBrush 3.1
* Mudbox
2009
* e-on Vue
7
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VIDEO EDITION AND COMPOSITION
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* Adobe Premiere CS4 (main skill)
* Adobe AfterFX CS4 (main skill)
* Eyeon
Digital Fusion
6 (advance level)
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MATCH-MOVING
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* Realviz MatchMover PRO 4
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MULTITRACK AUDIO EDITION AND COMPOSITION
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* Adobe Audition
3 (high level)
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FLOW EDITION
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* Next Limit Real Flow 4
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DVDs EDITION
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* Adobe Encore DVD
CS4
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OTHER APPs
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* AutoCAD 2009 (basic level)
* Realviz Applications: ReTimer,
Stitcher, etc.
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| Languages |
- Spanish: Native speaker.
- English: Fluent speaker (living since July 2006
in the UK).
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| Further Information |
- Musical formation: (Official title by the
"Conservatorio Jesús de Monasterio". Playing piano since 1986).
- Car Driving License: Full-clean.
References available on request
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