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Senior CG Supervisor
Sony Pictures Imageworks
Alberto Menache joined Sony Pictures Imageworks in September 2000. As senior CG supervisor, he has contributed to most of the company's current productions, especially in the areas of character set up and design of character set up tools. He designed and led implementation of the company's proprietary muscular deformation and facial animation systems, as well as the motion capture pipeline. He was also one of the initial designers of Imageworks' CG feature pipeline. Menache is currently digital effects supervisor on "Superman Returns.”
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During his time at Imageworks, he was a digital effects supervisor on "The Polar Express," digital supervisor on the Academy Award®-winning short "The Chubb Chubbs!,” and worked on the Academy Award-nominated "Spider-Man" and "Stuart Little 2," winner of the VES Award (Visual Effects Society) for Best Character Animation in an Animated Film.
Other production credits for Menache include the features "Mission Impossible II," "Shrek," and "Forces of Nature”; commercials for SEGA, Coca Cola, Gatorade, Circle K and Pillsbury; “Waterfalls,” the award-winning music video for TLC; and dozens of video games including Dark Ridge, Messiah and Soul Blade.
Previously, Menache founded Three Space Imagery, Inc. (TSi), a computer graphics, video game developer and motion capture pioneer in Los Angeles, where he and his team developed proprietary software for motion capture usage in animation. Menache then moved on to Pacific Data Images (PDI), a computer graphics industry leader, where he was a Character Technical Direction Supervisor.
Menache is the author of "Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation and Video Games,” a technical analysis of the art and practice of modern character animation using motion capture.
He holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a master's degree in mathematics and computer science.
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