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Bio

Hello, my name is Arturo Acevedo-Smith. I'm from Mexico City, and live in Los Angeles.  I graduated from USC's School of Cinematic Arts majoring in Film and Television Production with a minor in 3D Animation. 

I started making stop motion animations when I was about 7 years old and since then I began to develop my passion for animation and the film medium in general.  Eventually I stepped into the world of 3D animation and have loved it ever since.

 

Over the past 4 years I’ve modeled everything from living rooms to giant bipedal nuclear robots. I have animated several projects on my own with most running between 3 to 5 minutes long. I’ve experimented with multiple lighting techniques and rigged simple to extremely complex characters. I am fluent with all areas of 3D, and have a great understanding of how to use each of them to their full potential.

 

I have an extensive background shooting, directing, editing, sound editing and writing live action work. I have had the opportunity to work on multiple live action sets in a variety of disciplines. I mainly carry my knowledge of cinematography to my 3D animation work, and expand upon it with the freedoms 3D lighting has, while also understanding its limitations. Thanks to all my knowledge of live action filmmaking I keep camera movements, and shot choices grounded in a certain reality to make fantastical worlds believable.

 

I am skilled at working under pressure with a very limited time frame while still delivering high quality content. 

 

I've freelanced animation for the following companies:

 

Kingii

Devine Living

Costco

ProFix

Godzillarex Productions

 

Animations I've done for the past ten years are all up on my channel on YouTube, which now has over 10 million views to date. www.youtube.com/skeletex  

 

Skills Summary:

 

Specialization in

-Modeling (Both with NURBS and Polygons), Animation, Lighting, Camera Setup.

 

Fluent in

-Rigging, Dynamics, Particles, Texturing/Shading, Rendering, Compositing, 3D Printing.

 

Other Skills

-Live Action Cinematography, Editing, Sound Editing, Production.

 

Software

- Maya 2011 & 2014, Nuke and NukeX, After Effects, AVID, Sony Vegas, VideoStudio Pro X6

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