Name:Luis Ricardo Mercado Mendoza.
E-mail: darkbytes@hotmail.com
Phone Num: 310 382 0776.
Address: 513 Bush St. San Francisco, CA
Area of Expertise: Texturing / Environment Artist / VFX.
3D Animation Experience: 6 years.
Other Skills: 3D Studio, After Effects, Photoshop, Mental Ray, Premiere, Final Cut, Real Flow.

Experience:

DHC Marketing, 2002 - 2003, Toronto, Canada, My duties included creating Dental Procedures's Animations from storyboards to the final product, including editing, high volume (2 - 3 animations every month, 20 - 30 secs each.). Check Demoreel

3D Arq, 1999 - 2002 - Previsualization Architectural Studio, Mexico City, Mexico, my duties included: Lighting, Texturizing and Compositing of models to mimic Real life Photographs, this being buildings and cars. the amount of projects was two at a time and consisted of 7 - 8 still pictures and 5 - 10 secs of final animation every week. Check Gallery

TV UNAM, 1999 - 2002, Mexico City, Mexico, My duties included creating opening animations for the Educational TV Shows, one per month, 15 secs. long each. I did everything from Storyboards to editing. Check Demoreel

Courses and Seminars:

Siggraph 2001, Aug 2001, Los Angeles California. 3D and video Conference, Full Conference.

Animex 2001, Sep 2001, 3D Animation Festival, 2 entries in competition, Mexico City.

Mexico Media Festival 2000, 3D Animation and Media Festival, 6 entries in competition, Mexico City.

2nd Shortfilm Festival 2000, Shortiflm Competition, 1 entry in competition, Mexico City.

DISC 99, Internation Day of Computer Security, assisted to Advance Perl Programming course, Mexico City.

Visual 98, Aug 1998, Scientific Visualization Conference, assisted to VRML Rendering and modeling course, Mexico City.

Visual 97, Jun 1997, Scientific Visualization Conference, assisted to 3D Animation using Renderman course, Mexico City.

VFX Mexico, 3D Conference, Aug 2001, Full conference.

Learning Maya Course, assisted on Jun 1996, DGSCA, UNAM, Mexico City.

Maya Character Animation Course, assisted on Sep 1996, DGSCA, UNAM, Mexico City.

Courses as Teacher:

Learning Maya: DGSCA, UNAM, Jun 4 - 11 2001, 20 hours.

Learning Maya: DGSCA, UNAM, Aug 14 - 21 2001, 40 hours.

Introduction to VRML: DGSCA, UNAM, Oct 2 - 7 1999, 20 hours.

Introduction to VRML: DGSCA, UNAM, Dic 12 - 6 1999, 20 hours.

Advanced VRML: DGSCA, UNAM, Jan 19 - 24 2000, 20 hours

Advanced VRML: DGSCA, UNAM, Mar 23 - 27 2000, 20 hours

Web Design: DGSCA, UNAM, Apr 12 - 17 2000, 10 hours

3D Animation Introduction, Kidīs Museum Mexico City, Apr 21 - 25, 20 hours.

Perl Programming, DGSCA, UNAM, May 8 - 20 2000, 40 hours.

Linux Administration, DGSCA, UNAM, July 19 - 30 2000, 40 hours.

Perl for Databases, DGSCA, UNAM, Aug. 14 - 19 2000, 20 hours.

Learning Maya: DGSCA, UNAM, Sep 12 - 19 2000, 20 hours.