Ren Grasser | 12047 Berlin, Germany | +49 (0)151 / 58 70 37 31| rg@renegrasser.com | www.renegrasser.

com

CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name Degree Address Email Telephone Date of Birth Nationality Native Language LinkedIn Profile Ren Grasser Bachelor of Arts 12047 Berlin, Germany rg@renegrasser.com +49 (0) 151 / 58 70 37 31 16 June 1976 Austrian German http://de.linkedin.com/in/renegrasser/en

WORK EXPERIENCE
03/2011 - present VFX Production Coordinator and Production Manager (freelance) Berlin, Germany - VFX Production Coordinator for feature film and TV series - Production Manager for live events (VFX and motion design) - project scheduling, budgeting, resource planning and recruiting - communication between clients, producers, supervisors and artists - organizing video and photo shootings - creative input, editing and previsualization - data entry and note keeping - conforming, data wrangling, quality control, deliveries - on-set support and supervision - organizing dailies and reviews (including remote sessions) - monitoring and controlling - compositing (keying, rotoscoping and painting, tracking, prep work) zweimaleins werbeagentur gmbh Berlin, Germany - Head of Motion Design (production management, art direction, on-set supervision, pipeline development, responsible for projects and department budgets, recruiting, resource planning, further education, quality assurance) - Head of Human Resources (recruiting, resource planning, personnel support and development, education and training, developing HR database) - Head of IT department (implementing a render farm, responsible for the in-house time tracking and controlling system) Production Manager and Motion Designer (freelance) Berlin, Germany - Production management, on-set supervision and art direction - Motion graphics, compositing, 3D animation, editing 3D Artist, Motion Designer and Instructor (freelance) Comprendium Schweiz AG (Project Manager, Switzerland) Absolute Computer Solutions, Inc. (Network Administrator, USA) R.O.N.A. Systems GmbH (Project Manager, Austria) G. Bachmann Electronics GesmbH (Network Administrator, Austria) Bezirkshauptmannschaft (Office Clerk, Austria)

06/2008 03/2011

12/2006 05/2008

05/2004 11/2005 07/2001 04/2003 10/1999 12/2000 09/1998 08/1999 09/1997 09/1998 01/1994 09/1996

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Ren Grasser | 12047 Berlin, Germany | +49 (0)151 / 58 70 37 31| rg@renegrasser.com | www.renegrasser.com

PROJECTS
08/2011 11/2011 07/2011 08/2011 03/2011 06/2011 12/2010 03/2011 09/2010 11/2010 06/2010 09/2010 12/2009 03/2010 09/2009 11/2009 Nova Zembla stereoscopic feature film (VFX Coordinator) Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot TV series (VFX Coordinator/Compositor) Borgia TV series (VFX Coordinator) Trade show holographic stage (Production Manager) Sales event holographic projection (Production Manager) Press conference stereoscopic live broadcast (Production Manager) Trade show stereoscopic theater (Production Manager) Sales event stereoscopic projection (Production Manager)

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

04/2009 present fxphd.com Online Training VFX, production and post-production training program vfxpartners.biz Webinars Pre-Production of Visual Effects for Feature Motion Pictures Budgeting Visual Effects for Feature Motion Pictures CGSociety Online Workshop Previs 2 Previsualisation & Cinematography SAE Technology Institute Vienna, Austria/Berlin, Germany Bachelor of Arts Digital Animation Diploma

10/2010 09/2011 09/2011 10/2010 12/2006 02/2007

05/2003 12/2006 12/2005 12/2006 05/2003 05/2004

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
09/2009 present 09/1985 12/2000 09/1999 12/2000 09/1985 02/1997 Member of the Previsualization Society www.previssociety.com English (fluent) Austria/USA Temporary employment abroad (USA) School education (Austria)

SOFTWARE SKILLS
Office/Database Editing Compositing/2D 3D Tracking Encoding Operating System Other Excel, Project, Word, Shotgun, FileMaker, MySQL Media Composer, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro Nuke, After Effects, Photoshop, Silhouette Maya, Softimage, MotionBuilder, Vue, Mari, ZBrush PFTrack, Mocha Pro Sorenson Squeeze, Media Encoder, FFmpeg Windows, Linux, OSX HTML, Python, TWiki

INTERESTS
Video DSLR and photography, previsualization, in-line skating, cycling

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