Animator -opening credits- Chicago Int. Film Festival, Chicago, IL 1991 Judgerment Day, Gustavo Fuertes/Esperanza de Provens short film Silver Plaque award winner Animator, Studio Director, TVE, Moro Studios, RENFE and Equip, Spain 1985-1990 Los Mundos de Yupi TV series Despertaferro Katy Caterpillar Animator and Director, Olympiad of Animation, Los Angeles, CA, USA 1984 The Spirit of Olympus, Gustavo Fuertes/Esperanza de Provens short film Animator and Rostrum Camera for Filman/Hanna-Barbera, Madrid, Spain 1977-1987 Flintstones, Jetsons, Smurfs, Lucky Luke, Jane of the Jungle, CB Bears, Trollkins, Dirty Dog Education UNIVERSITY DEGREE at Facultad Ciencias de la Información de Madrid. Acting classes at different venues and studios. Supervisor workshops. Teaching and Mentoring experience Animation teacher since 1991 at the ANIMATION WORKSHOP, Viborg, Denmark: www.animwork.dk, Teacher at the EUROPEAN FILM COLLEGE, Ebeltoft, Denmark, with RICHARD WILLIAMS, May 23rd-25th, 2001: www.efc.dk, BADEN-Württemberg, Institute of Animation Nov. 23-24 2006: www.filmakademie.de, Seminars ar C.E.V school in Madrid: www.cev.com, CARVI, Vitoria, Spain: www.carvi.org, SINTESYS, San Sebastian, Spain: www.sintesys.net, ARS ANIMACION, Madrid, Spain: www.arsanimacion.com at C.S. Berkeley in 1999: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs39a/fa99/schedule.html, at the ACADEMY of ART COLLEGE, San Francisco, and at the INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: www.itu.edu, SKILLS AND INTERESTS Interested in acting classes and human behavior. Completed management/communication workshops. Knowledgeable of 2D drawing and design, writer and illustrator. Bilingual Spanish/English and very good motivator of people. I am developing original content featurettes and interviewing animation directors for an animation book. Pursuing my own projects when time allows. Maya, XSI and Photoshop proficient. REFERRALS Daniel Jeannette.- danieljeannette@comcast.net, Simon Wells.- SWells@dreamworks.com, Jim Morris.- morris@pixar.com, Phil Nibbelink.- altamesa@ix.netcom.com, Janet Healy.- jhealy622@yahoo.com, Tony Hudson.- antoniohud@yahoo.com, Tony Plett.- tplett@lucasfilm.com, Jeff Light.- Jeff.Light@dreamworks.commailto:danieljeannette@comcast.netmailto:SWells@dreamworks.commailto:morris@pixar.commailto:altamesa@ix.netcom.commailto:jhealy622@yahoo.commailto:antoniohud@yahoo.commailto:Tony.Plett@disney.commailto:Jeff.Light@dreamworks.comshapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1shapeimage_3_link_2shapeimage_3_link_3shapeimage_3_link_4shapeimage_3_link_5shapeimage_3_link_6shapeimage_3_link_7
Experience
 
Animator at Forestlight Studios, Stockholm, Sweden                                                                                        2011
Yoko
Animator at Tippett Studios                                                                                                                       2009-2010
Twilight Saga # 3 Eclipse
Twilight Saga # 2 New Moon
Cats and Dogs 2, The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Animator at ElementFX/California Academy of Sciences                                                                                  2008
Morrison Planetarium’s opening sequence. Birds & butterflies
Animator for Ray Kurzweil´s The Singularity is Near                      
Ellie and Samantha characters
Animation Supervisor at Polygon Entert. and Digitrove/Chaw Prod.
Chaw
Senior Animator at WETA Digital, Wellington, New Zealand                                                                           2007
The Waterhorse
Avatar
Senior Animator/Supervisor at Animal Logic, Sydney, Australia                                                                     2006
Happy Feet - Oscar Winner 2007  - (Leopard and Elephant Seals)
Animator at ElementFX, San Rafael, CA                                                                                                             2004
Lenny The Wonder Dog - (Opera singer parrot seq.)
Lead /Supervisor Animator at Industrial Light & Magic, San Rafael, CA                                               1994-2004
Casper - (Ghostly trio) - Animation supervisor
Dragonheart - Animator
Lost World - (Compy seq.) - Lead animator. Oscar Nomination Best VFX
SW1 - The Phantom Menace - (Sebulba character) Lead animator
E.T. - A Boy’s Life - Animator
The Mummy Returns - (Scorpion King seq.) - Lead animator
MIB2 - (Frank the pug character) - Lead Animator
The Hulk - Animator
Van Helsing - (Dracula’s brides - Wolfman/Hellbeast seq.) Animation supervisor
The Son of the Mask - (Alvey) Animator
Animation Director at Lucas Digital Commercial Division, San Rafael, CA                                                   1999
Pillsbury Dough Boy commercials
Animation Supervisor for Lucas Arts, San Rafael, CA                                                                           1997-2002
Bounty Hunter video game - (Komarivosa/Count Dooku characters)
Jedi Knight video game
2D Animator, Steven Spielberg´s Amblimation, London, England                                                           1991-1994
Balto
We´re Back
Fievel Goes West
Miguel A. Fuertes
orsohawk@gmail.com
 
www.miguelfuertes.com