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

  Aurora Innovation, San Francisco, U.S.A

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

  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)

  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)

• 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)

• 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

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

  Kobe University of Commerce, Kobe, Japan

  Curtin University, Perth, Australia

  Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Feature

  Winner : Soul (2020)

  Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Production

  Nominee : Olaf’s Frozen Adventure (2017)