Phone: 778-980-4244
Email: thedavidvaldez@gmail.com
Supervising/Lead Technical Director Experience
Puss In Boots: The Three Diablos © 2012 DreamWorks Animation
- Surfacing Supervisor
- Managed a team of 6 surfacers to make a short film using some feature assets, some new assets and coordinating work done in India.
It's Tough to be a Bug © 1997 Disney/Pixar
- Lead Technical Director
- Work with Disney Theme Park Productions and Rhythm & Hues to make the Stereo Optic film that is being shown in the "Tree of Life" theater in Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom.
- Animated, shaded, lit and rendered Flik and Hopper from "A Bug's Life" for compositing into Rhythm & Hues' CG backgrounds and secondary characters.
Unreleased Title © Disney/Pixar
- Lead Technical Director
- Managed a 5 person technical team that developed an interactive game using a new Pixar real time renderer.
- Worked heavily with animators, programmers, story-art designers and management to develop the project.
- Structured animation cycles.
"Optical Stop" TV Commercial © 1995 Optical Stop
- Lead 3D Generalist
- Provided design, modeling, shading, lighting, rendering.
Dragonheart © 1996 Universal Pictures
- Lead Technical Director
- Technical Director of animatic using SoftImage.