Jorge Jimenez - VFX Artist
CANADIAN CITIZEN
WORK EXPERIENCEProduction Services TechnicianSony Imageworks January 2021 – May 2024 Vancouver, Canada ◦ Provide a consistent and professional level of departmental technical expertise and support to digital artists and the production teams ◦ Manage and maintain all production-related data, both online (disk) and offline (tape) ◦ Monitor, book, provide initial troubleshooting and see to completion, all renders in the queue ◦ Monitor critical servers, network and file server load as it affects our workflow ◦ Ingest media from vendors and clients to conform to facility standards for internal use ◦ Ensure consistent data transfer between company base and sister facilities ◦ Process and distribute deliverable media for daily and critical client reviews ◦ Prepare data for global exchange between third parties using various mediums ◦ Implement and help to enforce standard naming conventions and working environments ◦ Actively find ways to improve operational efficiency of the department and the facility
2024◦ Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Credited) 2023◦ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Credited) ◦ The Marvels (Credited) 2022◦ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Credited) ◦ The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (Credited) 2021◦ Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (Credited)
Digital Resource TDPixomondo November 2019 – December 2020 Vancouver, Canada Area ◦ Generate reports of render farm usage. ◦ Monitor, prioritize and allocate render farm resources based on priority ◦ Monitor and report our overall resource utilization regarding disk space, node efficacy and job saturation. ◦ Identify, debug and report malfunctioning render slaves/workstations. ◦ Provide after hours and weekend render farm support locally/remotely.
2020◦ Redeeming Love (Credited) ◦ Star Trek: Discovery ◦ Raised by Wolves ◦ The Water Man
Data and Resource WranglerPixomondo May 2018 – November 2019 Vancouver, Canada ◦ Generate reports of render farm usage. ◦ Monitor, prioritize and allocate render farm resources based on priority ◦ Monitor and report our overall resource utilization regarding disk space, node efficacy and job saturation. ◦ Identify, debug and report malfunctioning render slaves/workstations. ◦ Provide after hours and weekend render farm support locally/remotely. 2019◦ The Hunt ◦ Locke & Key ◦ For All Mankind ◦ Kim Possible ◦ Siren 2018◦ A Dog's Way Home ◦ Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
Digital Production AdministratorDigital Domain Dec 2017 – May 2018 Vancouver, Canada ◦ The Digital Production Administrator is responsible for hands on management of facility resources including render nodes, disk space and I/O. ◦ The DPA works closely with the Assistant Technical Directors (ATD) to ensure show priorities and facility guidelines are being met while working to meet optimal efficiency of Facility Resources. ◦ The Digital Production Administrator serves as a dedicated production support liaison for the entire length of a production. A DPA provides a high level of technical support for facility-wide tools and pipeline support. ◦ DPA's serve as the first point of contact for artist and production support and work as an intermediary between Software and Systems support.
Stereo Elements QC ArtistGener8 Digital Media Corp Nov 2016 – Sep 2017 Vancouver, Canada ◦ Asset Harvesting ◦ Complete quality assurance checks and basic debugging of image sequences and VFX comps. ◦ Coordinate the delivery of film data and VFX assets to and from clients and vendors ◦ Maintain data and asset tracking. ◦ Collect files from clients and vendors and prepare deliveries back to them. ◦ Partners with other production personnel to ensure shots are scheduled and delivered in a timely manner. ◦ Coordinates all client deliveries (outgoing and incoming), both physical deliveries and digital deliveries and maintains log of all deliveries. ◦ Technical QA of all masters and digital files, grade conforms and project archiving.
2017◦ Transformers: The Last Knight ◦ Wonder Woman (Credited) ◦ King Arthur: Legend of the Sword ◦ Kong: Skull Island (Credited) ◦ Beauty and the Beast ◦ The Great Wall (Credited)
I/O Compositing CoordinatorGener8 Digital Media Corp Dec 2014 – Oct 2016 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ◦ Complete quality assurance checks and basic debugging of image sequences and VFX comps. ◦ Coordinate the delivery of film data and VFX assets to and from clients and vendors ◦ Maintain data and asset tracking. ◦ Collect files from clients and vendors and prepare deliveries back to them. ◦ Partners with other production personnel to ensure shots are scheduled and delivered in a timely manner. ◦ Coordinates all client deliveries (outgoing and incoming), both physical deliveries and digital deliveries and maintains log of all deliveries. ◦ Technical QA of all masters and digital files, grade conforms and project archiving.
2016◦ Suicide Squad (Credited) ◦ The Legend of Tarzan ◦ Alice Through the Looking Glass ◦ X-Men: Apocalypse ◦ Captain America: Civil War ◦ The Jungle Book 2015◦ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ◦ In the Heart of the Sea ◦ The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (Credited) ◦ Pan ◦ San Andreas ◦ Pixels ◦ Insurgent
CGI Model DesignerPepito Films, S.A. de C.V. Jan 2012 - Jul 2012 Monterrey, Mexico ◦ Research for references, conceptualize designs and model objects for props and environments for CGI Animated movie using Blender. ◦ Create UV maps used for texturing. ◦ Generate Animatics for pre-visualisation of sequences.
EDUCATIONVFX for Film & Television DiplomaThe Art Institute of Vancouver Vancouver, BC - Canada March 2013 - September 2014
Bachelor's Degree, B.A. Animation and Digital Art, Visualization and Entertainment Technologies,Tecnológico de Monterrey Monterrey, NL -Mexico. August 2007 — December 2012
High SchoolPrepa Tec Campus Cumbres Monterrey, NL - Mexico. August 2004 — May 2007
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