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Victor Rivas Alvarez

Overview

Victor Rivas Alvarez is a visual effects supervisor and Head of Studio with 19 years of experience working in film production and post-production. He founded a company called Varita Filmica in 2012. Offering his post-production services for different clients around Puerto Rico in commercials, music videos. Varita Filmica, was the company that gave life and brand to the Daikin company, creating the company's robot called Air-Con. This led him to the opportunity to successfully take off where he worked on different movies such as Captain America: Civil War with the Russo brothers in the production of the set taking photographs and scanning for post production. As Digital Composer in the film Todo X Sara, Dos Caminos, Replicas, serving different identities in Puerto Rico. After those collaborations, it opened ways for him to lead a team of twenty people in the industry for film production in production and post-production.

He and his team worked in advertising, film, music videos. This ended when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017 where his company was affected for ten months without customers, until filing for bankruptcy in 2018. But he never gave up. He started over in a different way, working with ABC as a Visual Effects Supervisor for a television show called Primetime. In 2019, he was responsible for creating and selling the Visual Effects between Mexico and Puerto Rico, creating a "Crowd Engine" for the demonstration of the Menudo (Subete A Mi Moto) series. In 2019 with MPC Film, as a Digital Compositor for different films, such as Maleficent Mistress of Evil, Noelle, The Big Red Dog (Clifford), The One and Only Ivan, which won HPA Awards for the best visual effects in 2020.

With vast experience in visual effects, cinematography, computer programming, combining technology with arts. In 2021 and 2022 , the company began serving different brands such as Netflix, NBC, Univision, Toyota. Creating reliability in the visual effects process internationally and positioning its company name and founder on another scale. Collaboration between companies such as The Mill, Ingenuity Studios, Harbor Picture Company, Company 3, Alkemy X, mentioning some of them has established a professionalism in the industry. Victor Rivas will be making his directorial debut with The Hot Asopao in 2025.

Known for

Editing

2021 Perfect Host Editing Colorist 59
Average

Visual Effects

2024 Thelma the Unicorn Visual Effects Digital Compositor 61
Fair
2023 Daniel el Travieso: Una aventura familiar Visual Effects VFX Supervisor 59
Average
2023 Class of '09 Visual Effects Digital Compositor 70
Good
2022 The Gilded Age Visual Effects Compositing Supervisor 76
Good
2022 Single Drunk Female Visual Effects Digital Compositor 66
Fair
2021 Zack: Enfrentamiento Mortal Visual Effects Rotoscoping Artist N/A
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2021 Clifford the Big Red Dog Visual Effects Digital Compositor 69
Fair
2021 Birds of Paradise Visual Effects Digital Compositor 60
Fair
2021 Power Book III: Raising Kanan Visual Effects Compositing Supervisor 79
Good
2021 Grace Visual Effects Visual Effects 68
Fair
2021 Mr. Mayor Visual Effects Digital Compositor 66
Fair
2020 Súbete a mi moto Visual Effects CG Artist 75
Good
2020 The One and Only Ivan Visual Effects Digital Compositor 67
Fair
2019 Servant Visual Effects Digital Compositor 75
Good
2019 Noelle Visual Effects Digital Compositor 62
Fair
2019 Evil Visual Effects Compositing Supervisor 77
Good
2018 The Kominsky Method Visual Effects Digital Compositor 74
Good
2018 Replicas Visual Effects CG Artist 59
Average
2017 Dos caminos Visual Effects Digital Compositor 59
Average
2016 Captain America: Civil War Visual Effects Visual Effects Production Assistant 74
Good
2014 Todo x Sara Visual Effects CG Artist N/A
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