Summary

I’m a seasoned professional in the Post-Production world. Working primarily in Animated Television with a background in Feature Film Aesthetics. Check me out... clagarce.com

Credits

5/19 – 10/21

Visual Effects Artist

Staff Position — Oddbot, Inc. Details
5/19 – 10/21

Disney Junior's Muppet Babies Season 3 VFX -Designed and animated particle simulations for VFX in-house. -integrated those processes into action sequences based on spline animation edit. - Quality control across post-production VFX shots. - Consistencies across VFX shots for integration into Final Picture Lock. - self-sufficient in my own art direction once the aesthetics of the show were absorbed and practiced. - provided excellent feedback and work-arounds for bottle necks. - Animated VFX for 27 episodes - Motion Tracking - Particle simulation

2/19 – 10/21

Editor Muppet Babies (Season 3)

Disney+ — TV — Oddbot, Inc. Details
2/19 – 10/21

Disney Junior's Muppet Babies Season 3 EDIT -Assembled Picture-Lock Edits for 19 episodes - Drove Edit Review Sessions with Directors, Producers, Animators, and Coordinators. -keeping on-top of incoming spline and LIT shots coming in from our post vendors. -Staying positive and building rapport through conversation with post-coordinators. -Maintaining realistic edit review deadlines and meeting them weekly. -lived the show everyday with the directors, show-runner, 2D team, and Coordinators.

5/15 – 8/18

Motion Graphics

Staff Position — sony motion pictures marketing Details
5/15 – 8/18

-Designed and Animated Title Cards for many Feature Film Trailers. -Composited VFX for Trailers and BTS Interviews. -Created Original Design Concepts for Marketing Pre-Released Feature Films. - Assisted Lead Editors in shot repair and compositing shots for international release. - Dealt with Marketing Execs. who were riddled with anxiety from Studio meetings and pressures. -Animated Feature Film content for Baby Driver, Blade Runner 2049, Spiderman: Homecoming, Jumanji: Welcome to theJungle, Magnificent Seven, Passengers, Peter Rabbit, Sausage Party, Venom etc.

11/17 – 3/18

Compositor Peter Rabbit

Sony Pictures — Film (Feature-length) — Sony Pictures Animation Details
11/17 – 3/18

-Taking tool-kits and fully-rendered characters on alpha and compositing them into cross-promotional commercials. -One-sheet mock-ups for various secondary posters for the supporting characters. - designing green-screen backgrounds for BTS interviews that fit with the films aesthetic. Ex. A lot of the film takes place in gardens so making garden back drops with water colors.

8/17 – 12/17

Concept Artist Venom

Sony Pictures — Film (Feature-length) — Marvel Entertainment Details
8/17 – 12/17

Pre-visualization of symbiote "tar" transformations. Skin/vein texturing with depth maps.

1/17 – 9/17

Graphic Designer Untitled (Warner Bros./Blade Runner Sequel)

Film (Feature-length) — Alcon Entertainment Details
1/17 – 9/17

Compositing Titles for the films trailers commercials and advertisements.

12/16 – 4/17

Art Director Baby Driver

Sony Pictures — Film (Feature-length) — Sony Pictures Details
12/16 – 4/17

Directed, Animated, and Designed a 30sec animated commercial to promote the Baby Driver Soundtrack and film. Successfully executed a Saul Bass style fast-paced animated title sequence that captured the "special-ness" of the film which was blocked out and edited by it's eclectic musical soundtrack.

2/16 – 12/16

Motion Graphics Passengers

Sony Pictures — Film (Feature-length) — Sony Pictures/Columbia Pictures Details
2/16 – 12/16

Holographic HUD display compositing (mostly for trailer shots when the final feature wasn't through post-prod. yet) Title Treatments, Title designs for the film's premiere. Motion Graphic compositing for various space nebulas and exterior ship shots. Interior ship motion tracking and compositing for title treatments and the Imagine Dragon's music video.

Unions

  • IATSE Local 700 Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG)

Orgs

  • Film Workers Editorial
  • motionographer

Media

  • VFX DESIGN AND ANIMATION REEL LAGARCE 2018

  • EDITING REEL LAGARCE 2018

Recos

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Education

Class of '06

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

BFA - Film Video and New Media
Class of '05

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

B.A. - Cinema and Photography

My Gear

  • Zoom H4 Handy Recorder
  • Trapcode Particular
  • Unreal Engine
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Final Draft
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • After Effects
  • practical shot Title Sequence assets
  • texture library
  • stylist and painting procreate application for story-boarding or
  • Diagrams (flowchart visualizer for pre-production)
  • Adobe fuse (great for quick characters and concept art)

Skills

  • Video Editing
  • Final Draft
  • Screenwriting
  • Adobe Premiere
  • Cinematography
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Animation
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Adobe Character Animator
  • cinema 4d
  • Post-Production Workflow
  • writing dialogue
  • Mocha Motion Tracking
  • stylist story-boarding and drawing
  • pre-production workflow
  • H4 zoom dialogue and audio recording
  • lighting and compositing elements in practical shot scenes
  • Title design and Title layout for Title Sequences
  • writing for characters that are parents