Federico Ponce

Past

• 3D Art Director/ Lead Designer at Create Advertising group
• Associate Creative Director at The Cimarron Group
• Adjunct Faculty for 3D modeling at Santa Monica College

• ACCD faculty at Art Center College of Design
• 3D Designer and Cosultant at Disney Imageneering
• Faculty at FIDM
• 3D Art director at Petrol advertising
• Intern at Shaded Box

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Education

• Art Center College of Design
• Universidad Anáhuac

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Industry

Entertainment

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• My Blog

Federico Ponce’s Summary

- Lead designer for New Moon Theatrical Trailer. Most downloaded trailer in history. 5.3 million downloads in the first 24 hours.

-Winner of The Golden Trailer for 3D Motion graphics trailer.

HITMAN.

- 5.0 Mark for best Graphics trailer for Metal Gear Solid 4

Perfect combination of right brain, left brain artist / leader.

Lead designer for Motion graphics for Film, Television and Video game campaign.

Creative, motivated, energetic artist with experience as a 3D Associate Creative Director in Print, Web and Motion graphics advertising.

I bring clients an outstanding quality of work and present them with new, explosive and effective visual solutions embedded in my marketing strategies. Doing so while motivating a creative team.

I am experienced in:

High resolution Poly Modeling for film
NURBS Modeling for industrial design
Rigging and light MEL scripting
Texturing on at least 4K Resolution
Lighting and shader management with Mental ray
Render wrangling and troubleshooting
Compositing and adding icing to the cake
Render Wrangling with Muster, Rush and Qube

Creative Direction and execution for :
Print Campaigns
Motion Graphics
Theatrical Trailers
Web Campaigns

Public Speaking and client relations

Motivational speaker for high schools in the L.A area. I talk, inform and motivate students that want to pursue a career in the visual arts world.

Federico Ponce’s Specialties:

Corporate Branding and Intellectual Property Development, Creative Director for Print Advertising Campaigns, Creative direction for Theatrical Motion graphics, Consulting and problem solving for the 3D entertainment industry. My tools are Maya, After Effects, Mudbox, Adobe Creative suite, HDR shop, Real flow, Silo, Zbrush, Mudbox, Kiloton, Rush, Qube

Federico Ponce’s Experience

• 3D Art Director/ Lead Designer

  Create Advertising group

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  March 2007 — March 2009 (2 years 1 month)

• Associate Creative Director

  The Cimarron Group

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  2009 — 2009 (less than a year)

• Adjunct Faculty for 3D modeling

  Santa Monica College

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  June 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 6 months)

• ACCD faculty

  Art Center College of Design

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Design industry)

  January 2002 — October 2008 (6 years 10 months)

  I currently hold faculty at ACCD. Public programs. Teaching the Intro to Maya Course

• 3D Designer and Cosultant

  Disney Imageneering

  (Animation industry)

  2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

• Faculty

  FIDM

  (Educational Institution; Animation industry)

  August 2006 — April 2007 (9 months)

  I taught the Intro to 3D class as and helped the dean of digital media organize a 3d curriculum.

• 3D Art director

  Petrol advertising

  (Design industry)

  2000 — 2005 (5 years)

• Intern

  Shaded Box

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Animation industry)

  August 2002 — December 2002 (5 months)

Federico Ponce’s Education

• Art Center College of Design

  1999 — 2003

• Universidad Anáhuac

  Bachelors , Bussiness , 1999 — 2000

Additional Information

Federico Ponce’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• My Blog

Federico Ponce’s Interests:

Fractals, Space observation, literature, cinema, Quantum physics, politics, mythology, videogames, salsa, Watermelon disco, Sunless suntan and punctured umbrellas

Federico Ponce’s Groups:

•    Visual Effects, Film and Games Professionals (www.vfx-recruit.com)
•    Digital LA
•    Official Art Center College of Design Alumni Group
•    Art Center College of Design Alumni Group
•    Art Center College of Design Alumni Network
•    LA3D

Federico Ponce’s Honors:

Golden Trailer - 2007 best motion graphic trailer.
HITMAN

Federico Ponce’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
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• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
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