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ASIA MIRELLE RIVERA
SUMMARY
I bring over 8+ years of international profesional experience in over 7 VFX companies worldwide. Most recently,
serving in the capacity as Key Artist for The Mill Film in Australia.
I'm driven, organized, and have a deep understanding of VFX field. As a trilingual professional, my global
experience includes Digital Artist in Sweden, Compositor in Toronto, and Coordinator/Producer in Mexico.
Throughout my career, I have been recognized as resourceful, an excellent communicator, and for the ability to
apply creative expertise to support and achieve key initiatives.
EXPERIENCE
02/2019 – 08/2019
THE MILL FILM
Adelaide, Australia
Key Artist
Seis de Enero, 6. Col. Granjas Navidad , CDMX , Mexico
--www.asiarivera.com
asiamirel (Skype)
Assist in managing dmp vfx team and communicating with department
coordinators & managers
Assist with management of hours and schedule in relation to the project
Demonstrate strong leadership qualities
Maintaining adherence to production standards
Provide verbal and written progress reports to clients, management and internal
teams
03/2018 – 09/2018
IMPORTANT LOOKING PIRATES AB
Stockholm, Sweden
Digital Matte Painter / Env TD.
Create photorealistic digital matte paintings.
Work compositing dmp shots.
Create 3d setups for dmp projections.
Assist 3d department in doing layout for environments.
Assist compositing department when needed, doing prepwork, cleanup, paint,
etc.
Be creative in bringing ideas and inspiring the team
Create high-quality artwork within technical budgets and aggressive deadlines
Expert knowledge of Photoshop
Excellent work ethic with diligence in time keeping and focused attention to
detail
Provide accurate time estimates for tasks and meet production deadlines
Working with Art Director and Art Lead to create assets, receive feedback, and
iterate on work
12/2015 – 04/2017
MR. X INC
Toronto, Canada
Compositor & DMP
Gather and implement tracking data (camera), matte paintings, cg elements, 2d
elements, to composite shots.
Color correction(grading), roto, paint correspondingly. Actively involved in
workflow to determine best way to tackle tasks
Involved in dailies for production of shots.
Work on concepts, matte paintings, style frames, and other paint work.
Create and ensure that all assets created by the art team and outsource studios
conform to the style and technical guidelines of the title
Create fully functional assets which can be shared across the project and respect
the technical and artistic constraints
08/2015 – 11/2015
BYG STUDIO
Mexico City
VFX Generalist
Responsible for a variety of visual effects tasks, banner replacements, tracking
shots, effects for credits, greenscreen shots, background assemblage, composite
shots. Color corrections, roto, paint correspondly.
02/2015 – 08/2015
MPC
Montreal, Canada
Digital Matte Painter & Compositor
Responsible for providing matte paintings, retouch, image manipulation or/and
visual solutions to multiple shots for the movies Fantastic Four and Victor
Frankenstein.
08/2014 – 12/2014
STARGATE STUDIOS
Valetta, Malta
Digital Matte Painter & Compositor
Worked as a matte painter for the second season of Spanish TV series "El Principe."
Shot in green screen, I was responsible for all backplates material, all work in
backgrounds that would suit each shot (2d most of the times), set extensions, and
paint work.
04/2014 – 04/2014
THE GENTLEMEN BRONCOS
London, UK
Compositor & Digital Matte Painter
Worked as a compositor for the last period of VFX Production of the movie "The
Salvation" directed by Kristian Levring. I utilized some matte painting techniques in
the work.
12/2013 – 03/2014
BEMENA
Mexico City
Producer
Creative, Physical Production, Post Production, Finance, Legal Executives as
well as Producers and Showrunners
Responsible for the visual material and animations developed by Bemena Media
for brands like Google and Wayra. Developed the graphic content and
animations for projects such as "Google Developers Hackademy", and other like
brandme.com and Ventario.
Edits stories, improves headlines, adds links and multimedia to content,
manages the look of websites and manages social media accounts
Help make informed decisions in conjunction with team leads on work
methods and development pipeline
Provide regularly scheduled communications with all personnel that are
providing any form of management to the team members
Assist with management of hours and schedule in relation to the project
Interaction and professional communication with clients
Monitoring project progress, and ensure project completion within budget
parameters in conjunction with Producer
Provide verbal and written progress reports to clients, management and internal
teams
Tracking budget and schedule targets
09/2013 – 12/2013
THE FX SHOP
Mexico City
Digital Matte Painter & Compositor
I focused in a sequence that involved doing particles for several shots of the
mexican movie "El Crimen del Cacaro Gumaro". Worked with particles and
composited popcorn rainfalls.
05/2012 – 06/2013
OLLIN VFX
Mexico City
Digital Matte Painter
Responsible for digital matte painting and compositing. Made visualizations, art
concepts, and digimattes using both painting and photo manipulation techniques.
Responsible of the delivery of high end DMP work.
Researched and explored visual style in some cases. Made high detailed textures for
the 3d department, texturing models. Retouched still frames which included doing
modification and integration of various elements. Made the integration of shots
using Nuke.
06/2009 – 07/2009
DIE VERSBIELTE EITELKEIT
Mexico City
VFX On Set Assistant
I took all the photography on 4 different locations in the center of Mexico (Puebla
and Mexico City). Took photography of the different kinds of costumes of soldiers
of the french and mexican army of the Movie "El baile de San Juan" which would
then serve as reference to make the 3d models and crowd, texture assets, also for
matte paintings in the film. I was involved in such tasks. VFX of the movie was
under the supervision of german company "Die Versbielte Eitelkeit", currently
dissolved.
EDUCATION
2007 – 2012
MONTERREY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND HIGHER
EDUCATION
B. A. in Animation and Digital Arts, Animation and Digital Arts
The program aims to prepare professionals with deep knowledge of art, technique
and story. Specializing in the design, development and production of art and
technology for entertainment and digital media.
QUALIFICATIONS
Expert knowledge of Photoshop, Nuke, MochaPro.
Excellent knowledge of Maya, Arnold, Zbrush, Vue, Speedtree, Mari, Renderman, Mudbox.
Proficient in Linux and Windows.
Familiarity with Mel and Python.
Organized, communicative and attention to both whole-picture and detail.
English 100%, Spanish 100%, Swedish 40%
Credits
Krypton (2018-) - Digital Matte Painter
The Machine - Digital Matte Painter and Compositor
Vikings (Season 4 and 5) - Digital Matte Painter and Compositor
Girl Trip (2017) - Digital Matte Painter and Compositor
Bates Motel - Digital Matte Painter
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (2017) - Digital Matte Painter
Juego de Heroes - Compositor
The Revenant (2015) - Digital Matte Painter
Fantastic Four (2015) - Digital Matte Painter and Compositor
Victor Frankenstein (2015) - Digital Matte Painter
El Principe (Season Two) - Compositor and Background artist
The Salvation (2014) - Compositor
The Popcorn Chronicles (2014) - Compositor
Alice in Marialand (2014) - Digital Matte Painter
After Earth (2013) - Digital Matte Painter
2GUNS (2013) - Digital Matte Painter and Compositor
Cinco de Mayo "La Batalla" (2013) Digital Matte Painter and Compositor
House of Cards (2013-) Digital Matte Painter and Compositor - GFX
El Baile de San Juan (2010) OnSet Supervisor Assistant
SKILLS
Painting
Animation
Layout
After Effects
Indesign
Photoshop
Illustration
