Emmy Award-winning Los
Angeles visual effects and design company A52 today announced
the addition of accomplished Flame/Inferno visual effects
artist Raul Ortego to its full-time staff, effective immediately.
Over the past decade, Raul has established a solid international
reputation for extraordinary visual effects and graphic design
artistry in the realms of commercials, music videos, on-air
promos and feature films. A graduate of Spain’s Complutense
College who also earned advanced post-production degrees from
Madrid’s Cemtav and Inves Schools, Raul began his career as a
Inferno/Flame demo artist for Discreet Logic in Spain, before
joining Madrid-based Telson in 1997 as Senior Inferno/Flame
Artist. He began freelancing in Spain in 2003, with the goal of
eventually becoming a part of A52’s staff. Three years and many
high-profile projects later, A52’s managing director and
executive producer Mark Tobin is pleased to welcome Raul aboard.
"Raul is a great, multifaceted addition to our team for a number
of reasons," Tobin began. “First of all, he has a great
knowledge of the seamless nature of our work, and his reel has a
lot of beautifully finished work on it. In particular, The
Missy Elliot video he did with Dave Meyers features full face
replacement, and he seemed to turn it around quite quickly; also,
the Coke spot he worked on for Roman Coppola is just great. His
color work also got my attention. Still, his energy and his love
for visual effects impressed me the most. Much like our artists
Pat Murphy, Andy Hall, Tim Bird and Kirk Balden, Raul has a
passion and dedication for making the work look amazing, and I’m
confident he will be a fantastic resource for directors.”
“In Europe, when we think about great post-production companies
in the states, A52 is one of the best,” Ortego said. “They
represent the type of work that I have always aspired to do.
For example, in 2001, when I was still with Telson, I watched
their Mick Jagger ‘God Gave Me Everything’ music video dozens of
times. That is still one of my favorite music videos of all
time. In watching that project and so many others in which they
have mixed photorealistic animation in post-production, I think
that A52 is always consistently pushing the edge of what is
possible.”
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