JorgeMartín

I'm a Spanish CG artist with more than a decade in feature animation, currently Character Surfacing Supervisor at Skydance Animation. I started out in surfacing, lighting and compositing, and grew from artist to Lead and Supervisor on films for Netflix, Apple TV+, Paramount and Warner Bros. Pictures Animation. My degree in Fine Arts is still at the core of how I look at colour, materials and form.

Over the years I've surfaced characters across a wide range of visual styles: from classic, Pixar-style 3D with rich, believable materials (Luck, Spellbound, Swapped) to painterly and illustrative looks that bring 2D sensibilities into CG, like the graphic, hand-crafted world of The Cat in the Hat or the bold painted style of Bad Fairies. I enjoy adapting my approach to each film's art direction rather than applying a single recipe.

That range shows in how I work: hand-painted detail in Mari and Substance Painter, procedural material systems in Substance Designer, and Houdini setups when the look calls for it. I also build tools for my teams, such as Houdini Digital Assets and Solaris/USD workflows that speed up texturing and look-dev, and I'm comfortable taking assets all the way through shading, lighting and rendering in RenderMan and Arnold.

As a Lead and Supervisor I care about the people as much as the pixels: setting the creative and technical bar, mentoring artists, running reviews and planning the work so the team can deliver beautiful characters on schedule. Mentoring is also part of my life outside the studio: I teach character surfacing in the Master's programme at U-tad since 2023, and taught lighting in its Bachelor's degree from 2020 to 2023.