Resume

Hiroaki Narita

A Technical Artist in San Francisco, USA,
has worked on Visual Effects in Film, Autonomous Driving System, Architecture design and Medical software industries

  WORK EXPERIENCE
2022 – Present

  Aurora Innovation, San Francisco, U.S.A

  • Senior Technical Artist
    Creating virtual world scenarios for autonomous driving system  
2017 – 2022

  Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, U.S.A

  • Turning Red (Effects Lead Technical Director)
  • Soul (Effects/Character Technical Director)
  • Onward (Effects Technical Director)
  • Toystory 4 (Effects Technical Director)
  • The Incredibles 2 (Effects Technical Director)
2014 – 2017

  Walt Disney Animation Studios, Burbank, U.S.A

  • Ralph Breaks the Internet (Effects Artist)
  • Moana (Effects Artist)
  • Zootopia (Effects Artist)
  • Frozen Fever (Effects Artist)
  • Big Hero 6 (Effects Artist)
2012 – 2014   Sony Pictures Imageworks, Culver City, U.S.A

  • Amazing Spiderman 2 (Effects Technical Director)
  • The Edge of Tomorrow (Effects Technical Director)
  • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatball 2 (Effects Technical Director)
  • Oz: The Great and Powerful (Effects Technical Director)
2010 – 2012   WET Design, Sun Valley, U.S.A

  • Create CG water, fog, and fire animation for architecture renders (3D Animator)
    • The Dubai Fountain, Aquanura Efteling, Yeosu Expo 2012 and etc.
  • Create small tools in Python
  EDUCATION
2007 – 2010    MFA, School of Animation and VFX

  Academy of Art University, San Francisco, U.S.A

2002 – 2006   BA, School of Business, Management

  Kobe University of Commerce, Kobe, Japan

  Curtin University, Perth, Australia

  AWARDS
2021   48th Annie Awards

  Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Feature

  Winner : Soul (2020)

2018   45th Annie Awards

  Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Production

  Nominee : Olaf’s Frozen Adventure (2017)

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