Producer / Manager
Visual Effects - On-Set Supervision
2.5D Matte painting projections
2D and 3D Animation production
Project Management
A skilled team builder
Departmental budgeting and management
Department oversight (procedures, guidelines, training)
International Outsource Manager.
Tools
Autodesk Maya
UnrealEngine
The Foundry NukeX, Hiero, Studio
Full Adobe CC (Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, AE, etc.)
Various Project Management software (JIRA, Basecamp, Slack, TeamworkPM, Trello, FTrack, Shotgun, FileMaker, etc.)
Google suit / Microsoft Office / Apple and
Powerpoint and Keynote.
Escape Studios, London
Opportunities to share my work and spread the word on Visual Effects ...
Coverage
Grand Theft Auto RISE (2012)
Visual Effects compositor for the GTA teaser.
Los Angeles
Latin America tours with The Foundry (2012)
Traveled to Mexico City, Guadalajara (Mexico), Medellin (Colombia), Bogota (Colombia), Lima, (Peru), Sao Paulo (Brasil), Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), Buenos Aires (Argentina), and Santiago (Chile) visiting artists, Studios and being part of international tradeshows.
Telemundo - Mexico
NAB - Las Vegas
Siggraph - Los Angeles
Cable & Broadcast - Sao Paulo
CAPER - Buenos Aires
Twisted Metal - Sony PlayStation Game (2011)
Several launch events for the game where the Game Cinematics were featured. Great experience. Photos and videos to follow.
E3 - Los Angeles
"Cinematics are smartly handled with both live actors and animation, providing a nice background into each character's history and reason for wanting to win the tournament.
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It isn't meant to be deep, meaningful, or even realistic, but it achieves what games should be all about -- it is fun."
Stereoscopic Film Making Workshop (2010)
A three-day-long workshop in Burbank, Ca where I got to shoot indoor and an exterior location with the Panasonic AG-3DA1 and a split rig with Red-One cameras. The footage was later tracked with Syntheyes and comp was done using Nuke's Occula.
Interview (2009)
Interview on El Tiempo November 15
This was a note on the film and a brief mention of my participation in the escape from Los Angeles sequence..
Chicago Spire (2008)
fxguide. talks about the process .....
Interview (2008)
Interview on Gente June 2008
Local magazine interview where I talk about my experience and involvement in some of the projects while at Sony Pictures.
Interview (2007)
Interview on El Tiempo August 7
This is an interview about me and my work in the motion picture industry. It talks about my studies and my participation in several high-profile films.
It is in Spanish and someday I will work on a translation for it. In the meantime, I'll place the PDF file of the online-cover page for that day, and the scanned pages from the printed paper that was distributed nationwide for the release of "Surf's Up" in Colombia.
Ghostrider (2007)
Ghostrider on Cinefex issue 109
"In one of the show's most spectacular all-CG shots, Ghostrider drives his Hellcycle through the railing of the roof and descends in slow motion as the camera moves around him. The shot was one of those conceived very late in the making of the film. "What made the shot fun," remarked Kevin Mack (VFX), "was that it wasn't prevized, it wasn't boarded, it wasn't even in the movie until we came up with it."
"For Ghostrider's POV, as he descends, production shot a courtyard at the bottom of a real building; but the insufficient height of that building required the visual effects team to rework the photography and create a higher perspective."
Interview (2006)
3D World Magazine interview at Imageworks. issue 74
"Andres Martinez joined Sony Pictures Imageworks as a Technical Director only a year ago, but has already been promoted to CG Supervisor, His chief responsibilities include developing the environment pipeline, managing his team and lighting shots. When Martinez's role as a Technical Director naturally started to include more work in the facilities pipeline, Sony recognized that his previous experience - building virtual environments on Mission Impossible 2 and The Matrix trilogy - would be invaluable for its new projects."
Catwoman (2004)
"Vfx supervisor Ed Jones praised the all-CG cityscapes." VFX world
Revolutions (2003)
..."We now build all our geometry based on photogrammetry," related Andres Martinez. "We used the photographs for texturing, but we also used those photographs to acquire geometry."... "We took some office interiors from photography, and modeled others with CG office furniture.
We also had to deal with the effect of lightning creating brightly lit reflections, so we generated mattes and blended between day and night plates in the composites. Reflections brought the scenes alive."... Cinefex Issue 97
Reloaded(2003)
"...We create these virtual backgrounds—which have been used a great deal in these movies, and they look stunning—..." Dan Glass - Visual effects Supervisor www.scifi.com
..."Virtual cinematography lead Andres Martinez oversaw the reconstruction of the set using 'Labrador' - an image analysis and photogrammetry tool written by Dan Piponi. "Labrador was a very powerful, automatic tool that gave us amazing precision from the photographs," explained Martinez, "It undistorted images according to the angle of the lens. We used those images to re-create the set geometry, then projected them onto our model - and the textures fit exactly. After that, we added CG extensions to make the five-story set 12 stories tall."... Cinefex Issue 95
..."Joe Lewis at General Lift built a little robotic camera head to shoot motion control tiled plates," said Andres Martinez. "It could extend off a roof, look down and take 45 photographs with a Canon EOS D60 in one spin. It allowed us to shoot plates we couldn't normally achieve; and, using digital cameras with 1-gigabyte storage cards, we didn't need to stop to reload as often."... Cinefex Issue 95
Newsweek Magazine Cover and story. (original imagery)
Freeware (2001)
"Alex Orelle's `Freeware` was the winner of the inaugural Sundance Online Film Festival. The award recipient was selected by the fest's Internet audience. The online festival debuted when the Sundance Film Festival kicked off in Utah, running January 18th - February 28th, 2001." indieWire
"My Associate Producer, Andres Martinez, was instrumental in helping us create, organize, and document all of our standards. We put the production standards into an HTML document which was used through our intranet site. Also being a technical guru, Andres aided in many of the technical challenges we faced throughout the production." www.insidecg.com
2001 - DVD Exclusive Awards, USA - Nominated for Best Internet Video Premiere.
