Rodney Florencio da Costa

Visual Effect Society - Member #3418

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***, ***** ***** **. ********* D, Central, South Carolina, 29630 ABOUT THE PROFESSIONAL

More than 24 years in Entertainment (Film and Television), 3D and VFX, business development and internet industry. Active member of Visual Effects Society since 2012. Master of Fine Arts in Digital Production Arts Graduate Student, Teacher and Virtual Reality researcher at the School of Computing at Clemson University. Experience - Most relevant

DIRECTOR / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER / CO-PRODUCER

Executive and Co-Producer for the feature film “12 Segundos” from director Kenneth Muller, that was number one watched film for consecutive 2 weeks bitting Blockbuster productions, in Central America, and also won a Netflix Audience Awards. Founder and executive director of the company Abduct Studios based in Brazil and México, acting as VFX and color timing facility for international and local productions. Executive Director of Netsun Technologies and Services leading more than 35 employees one of the Internet pioneers in São Paulo, Brasil. Executive Director/Producer, from Novo Tempo Television leading more than 65 employees producing, TV programs, musical video clips and live shows/events. Director and Producer for many DVD musical shows for bands and singers from this institution.

GAME / AR / VR PROJECTS

VR experience for São Paulo Design Weekend where the current thought on virtual reality being only a new media is deconstructed, and the possibilities of this new technology are demonstrated as an immersive multisensory experience. This was an invitation from São Paulo Design Association for my company Abduct, and I developed all the aspects of this using Unreal Engine.

Coca Cola AR Christmas experience 2018 - First Coca Cola AR world wide 2018 - First time Coca Cola used the Traditional Bears in an Augment Reality project. I worked as a creative director and technical supervisor at the Abduct VFX, helping from story development until final delivery. I also did the Soundtrack compositing and mixing. Avengers End Game - 2018

AR application in Partnership with Coca Cola Brasil, Coca Cola USA and Marvel to create an AR Experience for the End Game feature film Branding with Coca Cola. I worked as a VFX/3D and AR Supervisor, managing all the development aspects, from the creative to technical side.

Kemet Electronics Corporation - CG development, Level Design/ Blueprint programing / for a 4 different VR training solution in partnership with Clemson University using Maya and Unreal Engine - 2018/2019

VISUAL SUPERVISOR - FEATURE FILMS

Feature Film - Visual Effects Supervisor for "12 Segundos" directed for Kenneth Muller - México / Guatemala - 2011

Feature Film - Senior Finishing / Visual Effects Supervisor "Time Warrior - The Movie" - from Jaguar Films / Las Vegas - 2011-2012 Feature Film - Finishing Sup- “El Regreso” - from the producer Luiz Caballos - USA / México 2012 2012 a 2013 Feature Film - Visual Sup./ Production Manager for “El Reino de las Cosas" - Member

#3418 Director Renê Castillo / Mandaraka Films, leading more than 200 artists and producers -USA / México - 2012-2013

Netflix Series - Space Channel Brasil - Senior VFX Supervisor - “Blood Pact” Feature Film - Visual Supervisor/ Production Manager and Production Consultant for

“The Little Chicken’s Egg-cellent Adventure ”- leading an average of 400 artists and producers during production - 2013 a 2014.

VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR FOR TV COMMERCIALS - MOST RELEVANT TV Commercial - Village Mall - Senior Visual Effect Supervisor, filmed in Nashville-USA featuring Nicole Kidman - 2012 Institutional Film for Brazilian Central Bank - Visual Effect Set Supervisor, directed by Martin Toro from Companhia de Cinema and photograph Director Junior Malta, known for “Elite Squad” 1 e 2. COLORIST

Feature Film - "Time Warrior - The Movie" - Jaguar Films - Las Vegas - 2014 Feature Film - “El Regreso” - USA / México 2012

Video Clip - Alice Caymmi - Antes - 2014

Video Clip - Marcelo Lupi - Simple - 2014

Video Clip - Duosway - Down with you - 2011

Video Clip - PIVA - Ysi Tal vez ft. Adrian Varela, Alejandro Irizarry & Ross Abreu - 2011 WORKSHOPS AND KEYNOTES

Keynote for Digital communication and Advertising Week at Brás Cubas University - Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo -Brasil -2009

Keynote Computer Generated Imagery at UNIBA University, São Paulo - Brasil Workshop - 2010

Technical Direction in 3D and Effects Animation at MonteMorelos University - Nueva León - México. 2012

Keynote “Advanced 3D techniques for Visualization” for the course Digital Animation at Tecnológico del Monterrey, Guadalajara México. -2012 Education

Master of Fine Arts in Digital Production Arts - Clemson University 2018 - present Bachelor of Communication - Braz Cubas University 2017 OTHER COURSES and WORKSHOPS

Cinema Director - Eliene Caffé by Stein Productions - 2003. Digital Cinema / 24 P - from acquisition to post production. Lúcio Kodato and José Augusto De Blasis -2004

Digital Post Production - José Augusto de Blasis at CasaBlanca Post - 2004 Traditional Modeling and Digital - Alex Oliver - Mellies - 2005 Feature Films Photograph Direction - Alziro Barbosa - 2007 Character Rigging in Maya III with Todd Widup - 2007 Scripting in Maya - MEL script and Python by Todd Widup -2008 Allan McKay’s Hollywood VFX for Live Action Integration - 2009 VFX Phd. Siggraph Full Conference - Almost all events since 2008 Main Software knowledge

Management

Shotgun Software, Trello, Mind Map. Google Solutions. Visual Effects / 3D

Autodesk Maya, Zbrush, The Pixel Farm, Arnold Render Game Engine

Unreal 4 engine

NLE Compositing

Adobe® Premiere,Resolve, Foundry Nuke, BlackMagic Fusion Color Grade

Assimilate Scratch, Apple Color, DaVinci Resolve, Autodesk Lustre. Languages

Portuguese - Native

English - Advanced

Spanish - Advanced

French - Basic

Portfolio Links

3D ANIMATION AND VFX

https://vimeo.com/85981414

COLOR CORRECTION

https://vimeo.com/85987424

VFX SUPERVISION VFX ARTIST

https://vimeo.com/220276280

AR VR

Coca Cola AR Experience - Christmas 2018

https://vimeo.com/379769734

Coca Cola - Marvel Avengers End Game

https://vimeo.com/379768517

Kemet Training

https://vimeo.com/379634218

Linkedin Chief Scientist at KEMET Electronics comments. Design Weekend 2017

https://vimeo.com/240086666

PORTO SEGURO VR // AR Experiences

https://vimeo.com/240089181

Work Reference

Please refer to Linkedin website for recommendations and comments from other professionals.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneycosta

* Availability

Respecting my religion believes I’m able to work from Sunday to Friday full time including over hours, but from the sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday, in accordance to the bible and my christian believes, I must keep this period of time as a holy day, and I will not going to work for my own. Please make sure that the same strong respect I have for the personal values and my religion will be applied, in the same proportion, for your company values and beliefs. Thanks for consider.

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