Enrique Muñoz

• Co-Developed Redshift Render Engine lighting workflow and Confluence documented best practices.
• Setup Deep Rendering & Compositing render workflow. Also developed Nuke scripts and gizmos.
• Lead Lighter cinematic projects which lead to increased game sales. Lead team counts as many as 12 artists. Mentored and oversaw both creative and technical issues for sequence/shots, and helped maintain projects on schedule through clear communication with other departments and management.

Selected work: Diablo Immortal Overwatch: Reunion Heroes of the Storm Overwatch: Honor and Glory Overwatch: Dragons Overwatch: The Last Bastion World of Warcraft

• Created lighting blueprints, complex materials and tools to speed the lighting process.
• Troubleshoot and resolve lighting related technical issues, ensuring optimal performance.
• Mentored other artists, created work processes, stepped in as Lead when Art Director was away.
• Created lighting setups for many real time game cinematics in Unreal Engine.

• Sole Lighting Artist on mobile game cinematic.
• Developed PBR pipeline/workflow for lighting and compositing including proper OCIO Aces setup.
• Created Nuke scripts using deep compositing and gizmos for use with other team compositors.

• Took 1 paragraph descriptions with provided level maps and created complete multi-minute cinematics.
• Cinematic work went from A to Z, Previz/Layout, Assets(model/texture/materials), MetaHumans with Mocap data, Camera setups (lenses, placement, duration of shots), and Niagara FX.
• Setup lighting rigs for character and environments using Lumen.

• Setup OCIO Aces color lighting workflow in Unreal Engine and NukeX.
• R&D with Confluence documentation to educate team on best practices when lighting in Unreal Engine deferred rendering workflow.
• Developed lighting looks for various shots. Setup environment lighting rigs.

• Lighting and Compositing on multiple shots for the Emmy nominated Television series, Black Sails.

Selected work: Black Sails

• Lighting and Compositing on multiple shots for sphere projection project.

• Delivered Academy Award winning Visual Effects for Spiderman 2.
• Many other Oscar nominated films include: Spiderman, Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Superman Returns; Monster House; Surf's Up & Alice in Wonderland.
• Worked outside of pipeline to meet and exceed expectations for shot delivery. (Created geometry and shaders when resources were not available to be officially done)
• Dialed in shaders/materials to certain looks for both photoreal and stylized assets.

Selected work: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 The Smurfs Alice in Wonderland Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs I Am Legend Monster House Superman Returns Spider-Man 2 The Polar Express

• Completed several shots, while developing setups for both lighting sequences and FX elements.
• Built shots in a comprehensive manner to allow for easy migration to Stereo 3D pipeline.

Selected work: Tangled

• Modeled/Textured/Shader work on assets.
• Developed Lighting look for all shots on project.

• Modeled/Textured/Shader work on assets.
• Delivered Lighting & Compositing for shots on an accelerated schedule.

• Responsible for all aspects, from animatic to final render & compositing on commercial work.

• Entered project late, yet still integrated into existing pipeline and delivered several effects shots on accelerated schedule.

• Supervised several car commercials for various clients on time and on budget.
• Oversaw all aspects from 3d Scan of car and all other CG pipeline steps, to client interfacing, and final delivery to digital intermediate.

• On set VFX Supervision for green shoots.
• Seamlessly composited live elements with CG virtual sets.