A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Victor Rivas
Victor Rivas Alvarez is a visual effects supervisor and Head of Studio with 19 years of experience working in film production and post-production. He founded a company called Varita Filmica in 2012. Offering his post-production services for different clients around Puerto Rico in commercials, music videos. Varita Filmica, was the company that gave life and brand to the Daikin company, creating the company's robot called Air-Con. This led him to the opportunity to successfully take off where he worked on different movies such as Captain America: Civil War with the Russo brothers in the production of the set taking photographs and scanning for post production. As Digital Composer in the film Todo X Sara, Dos Caminos, Replicas, serving different identities in Puerto Rico. After those collaborations, it opened ways for him to lead a team of twenty people in the industry for film production in production and post-production. He and his team worked in advertising, film, music videos. This ended when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017 where his company was affected for ten months without customers, until filing for bankruptcy in 2018. But he never gave up. He started over in a different way, working with ABC as a Visual Effects Supervisor for a television show called Primetime. In 2019, he was responsible for creating and selling the Visual Effects between Mexico and Puerto Rico, creating a "Crowd Engine" for the demonstration of the Menudo (Subete A Mi Moto) series. In 2019 with MPC Film, as a Digital Compositor for different films, such as Maleficent Mistress of Evil, Noelle, The Big Red Dog (Clifford), The One and Only Ivan, which won HPA Awards for the best visual effects in 2020. With vast experience in visual effects, cinematography, computer programming, combining technology with arts. In 2021 and 2022 , the company began serving different brands such as Netflix, NBC, Univision, Toyota. Creating reliability in the visual effects process internationally and positioning its company name and founder on another scale. Collaboration between companies such as The Mill, Ingenuity Studios, Harbor Picture Company, Company 3, Alkemy X, mentioning some of them has established a professionalism in the industry. Victor Rivas will be making his directorial debut with The Hot Asopao in 2025.
CG Artist:
2014 Todo x Sara
2018 Replicas
Colorist:
2014 Todo x Sara
2018 Replicas
2021 Perfect Host
Digital Compositor:
2014 Todo x Sara
2017 Dos caminos
2018 Replicas
2019 Noelle
2020 The One and Only Ivan
2021 Birds of Paradise
2021 Clifford the Big Red Dog
2021 Perfect Host
2024 Thelma the Unicorn
Rotoscoping Artist:
2014 Todo x Sara
2017 Dos caminos
2018 Replicas
2019 Noelle
2020 The One and Only Ivan
2021 Birds of Paradise
2021 Clifford the Big Red Dog
2021 Perfect Host
2021 Zack: Enfrentamiento Mortal
2024 Thelma the Unicorn
VFX Supervisor:
2014 Todo x Sara
2017 Dos caminos
2018 Replicas
2019 Noelle
2020 The One and Only Ivan
2021 Birds of Paradise
2021 Clifford the Big Red Dog
2021 Perfect Host
2021 Zack: Enfrentamiento Mortal
2023 Daniel el Travieso: Una aventura familiar
2024 Thelma the Unicorn
Visual Effects Production Assistant:
2014 Todo x Sara
2016 Captain America: Civil War
2017 Dos caminos
2018 Replicas
2019 Noelle
2020 The One and Only Ivan
2021 Birds of Paradise
2021 Clifford the Big Red Dog
2021 Perfect Host
2021 Zack: Enfrentamiento Mortal
2023 Daniel el Travieso: Una aventura familiar
2024 Thelma the Unicorn
CG Artist:
2020 Súbete a mi moto
Compositing Supervisor:
2019 Evil
2020 Súbete a mi moto
2021 Power Book III: Raising Kanan
2022 The Gilded Age
Digital Compositor:
2018 The Kominsky Method
2019 Evil
2019 Servant
2020 Súbete a mi moto
2021 Mr. Mayor
2021 Power Book III: Raising Kanan
2022 Single Drunk Female
2022 The Gilded Age
2023 Class of '09
Visual Effects:
2018 The Kominsky Method
2019 Evil
2019 Servant
2020 Súbete a mi moto
2021 Grace
2021 Mr. Mayor
2021 Power Book III: Raising Kanan
2022 Single Drunk Female
2022 The Gilded Age
2023 Class of '09
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