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11 Dec, 20
About Me
Who am I?
Experienced animation and VFX producer, believer in the power of good planning and teamwork to deliver projects successfully.
International experience including CW's "Superman & Lois", Skydance "Spellbound" and Netflix Original series “Legend Quest”. My biggest challenge has been delivering a movie as Line Producer and among my projects are included two feature films (3D) three TV series (VFX + 2D), two short films (3D) and a couple of shortfilms with real time pipeline (Unreal Engine).
Name:
David Salinas Garfias
Email:
Age:
33
From:
Querétaro, MX
How can I help?
Workloads validation
Given a deadline and amount of work, validate the tasks are feasible with the current crew
Planning & scheduling
Laying down general and task specific timelines, project ramp up curves and expected production output
Script breakdowns
How many assets? How much animation? Can we reuse? All this before lifting any pencil.
Team management
What drives our team? What are our purpose and objectives? How can we help them with their work?
Tracking & reporting
Projects, episodes, departments but also shots, assets or specific tasks. Executive level reports in Shotgrid or spreadsheets
Budget creation
Starting from a Work Breakdown Structure and accounts, I can create budgets above and below the line
Workflows & documentation
Along with the VFX/CG Supervisor, creating and documenting the workflow, IOs, deliverables, dependencies, etc.
Productivity reports
Reporting based on data (complexity, bidds vs actuals, duration, internal retakes, client changes, team input, etc.)
Project packaging
Project chart, going through the budget, pipeline design, pitch deck, script doctoring, art, animatic and pitching.
Teammates' testimonials
Alejandra Cervantes
ILMI am very lucky to have worked with David. He is a great head of production. I always felt supported by David. He trusted me and helped me to do my best. He was always open to comments and ideas from artists, leads, supervisors, art director and TDs to prepare and organize the production. He is a problem solving person, multitask, very organized with excelent communication skills. He balance the creative expectations with the financial resources and time available. He was always smiling, I can't remember a day without a greeting from David to each artist, asking them how his day was going. He is kind and reliable. Documentation about art and technical issues he prepared side by side with team and planning for this film was very helpful for us because that improved our workflow and allows us to complete schedules without overtime. I can't wait for the day to work with him again. Any employee would be lucky to have David as Line Producer
Lucía Figueroa
Atomic CartoonsDavid is a candid and kind person. He always encourages teamwork and supports people to give their best on a project. Working under his direction was a pleasure. I strongly recommend him
Resume
Education
Diploma in Film Business
Open University / 2017 - 2017How does the film business work and which & how stakeholders are involved
MBA
Tec Milenio / 2014 - 2015Focused on project management
Bachelor in Animation & Digital Art
ITESM / 2008 - 2012Graduated from the high performance program with a 95/100 final grade
Experience
Production Supervisor
Cinética / 2023 - Actual / Miscelaneous
Producing real time oriented content in Unreal engine like avatars, level design, moCap and virtual production. Also producing content for metaverses and NFT's for brands.
-Reorganized the studio's pipelines and procedures
-Integrate shotgrid as a production tracking tool
-Asses and report the studio's content quality and seniority for each service
-Structure Shotgrid from scratch to adapt to the studio's multiple projects.
-Decide priority and bandwidth capacity to receive more projects
-Create client's timelines, milestones and deadlines
-Organize, track and structure the information available for artists in Shotgrid
-Attend client meetings and keep them updated with the project status
-Create weekly and daily goals for the team
-Flag any delays or change of scope with Executive production
-Anticipate blockers and solve issues to keep stock for all the departments
-Bid and schedule assets and shots
-Maintain the project scope along with the CEO and COO
-Assess and request artists and resources when required by the client requests or workload
Production Manager
Boxel Studio / 2022 - 2023 / Superman & Lois
-Create the master schedule based on the client's milestones and deadlines.
-Organize, track and structure the information available for artists in Shotgrid.
-Attend client meetings and keep them updated with the project status.
-Create weekly and daily goals for the team.
-Flag any delays or change of scope with Executive production.
-Anticipate blockers and solve issues to keep stock for all the departments.
-Client communication.
-Bid and schedule assets and shots along with the PCs and department leads.
-Mentor the production team and create guidelines and documentation for the production department.
-Maintain the project scope along with the Executive producer, Head of production and the VFX Sup.
-Assess and request artists and resources when required by the client's requests or workload.
Line Producer
Zebra Studio / 2022 - 2022 / Bolofest
-Creation and tracking of the main schedule/timeline while defining the general scope with executive production and the client
-Listen and address the client's needs, changes or new requests.-Identify and communicate production risks, stoppers/blockers and any impact that might happen with the project.
-Assessment and communication of any change of scope from the client of executive production regarding the resources during production and the impact of new requests.
-General planning and tracking of all departments, adjusting the resources accordingly to their specific needs.
-Design and generate weekly and monthly reports to executive production.
-Understand the workflow, dependencies, deliverables and processes of all the pipeline to make sure all their inputs are met
-Design and review of the pipeline along with the CG supervisor and the VFX consultant .
-With the director define the scope, project expectations, assumptions and solutions that will let the project achieve its objectives.
-Check and validate department-specific budgets, workloads and quotas.
-Creating of the crew plan.
-Make sure the departments have the proper stock for them to work.
-Guide the Supervisor's meetings and check ins.
-Communicate the plan, strategies, milestones and targets to all the team, including executive production, production crew and supervisors.
-Monitor the production crew through daily production rounds where we discussed status, problems, progress and blockers for each department.
-Mentor and coach the production team with the tools, soft skills and production philosophy for the project.
-Maintain a fun, trustworthy, honest and positive work environment.
-Communication with the brands
Production Supervisor
Skydance Animation / 2019 - 2020 / Spellbound
-Work with the Production Coordinators and Production Assistants to run the different departments within the assigned area
-Work closely with the Associate Production Manager to budget, schedule and meet the production plan.
-Work closely with the supervisors to bid the work, establish the workflow, steps and dependencies within the area
-Identification and communication of the weekly targets
-Check-in meetings with the different teams
-Manage the vacations
Line Producer
Huevocartoon / 2017 - 2019 / Frozen little eggs
-Accountable for managing the budget and resources including artists, money and schedule while making sure the production objectives are met within the projected time and making the decisions to get it done.
-Workloads estimations
-Scheduling
-Seek talent through the HR department
-Team management and coordination
-Training for the production team
-Documentation of the studio pipeline in collaboration with the department supervisors
-Expenses report and payments to accounting.
-Production reports for executive production
Line Producer
Ánima Studios / 2017 - 2017 / Miscelaneous
-Budget projections
-Presentation and discussion of budgets with executive production
-Workload estimations-Scheduling
-Seek for talent through the HR department
-Team management and coordination
-Production clearance through the Legal affairs department
-Expenses report and payments to accounting.
-Responsible for coordinating work and communication among Product Placement & Marketing with Production department
Production coordinator
Ánima Studios / 2015 - 2016 / Legend Quest
-Team coordination, around 40 artists overseas and in-house.
-Coordinate Supervisors and directors.
-Production Management of the following departments: Storyboard, Character design, Props design, Animation and Compositing.
-Tracking of tasks and assets to keep production under schedule
-Day-to-day problem solving
Production assistant
Ánima Studios / 2014 - 2015 / Chapulín Colorado
-Fulfilling of tracking formats.
-Task tracking and follow up with artists.
-Asset tracking and organization.
-Coordination of the art and compositing departments.
Executive Producer
Mexanet / 2019 - Current / Miscelaneous This is a side work I do with a partner. Mexican Animation Network seeks to connect the mexican animation industry with international partners, creating collaboration, funding projects, giving consulting, offering trusted animation studios to take on services for international studios and selling fresh and different IPs.
-Production planning: starting from the project scope, project charter, WBS, Budget, Routemap, etc.
-Evaluation of projects: filtering them and giving feedback on how they can adapt better to the market, looking commercial hits, but also looking for specific niches.
-Consulting: as soon as the project gets green-lit we offer guidance through the several production steps to ensure a smooth and successful project.
-Prospecting: studying the several publishing strategies and slate of the different distributors, channels or studios.
Skills & tools
Teamwork
Problem solving
Communication
Reporting
Budget creation
Shotgrid
G Suite
Autodesk maya
Adobe suite
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