The Team

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ANDRÉS PALMA
Director & producer

Originally trained as a classical artist, Andrés has been working in the Mexican film, animation and visual effects industries for nearly two decades, from independent film productions down to advertising work for large established agencies.

Shimmer is his most personal project to date, conceived to work through his own issues around the idea of fatherhood and the choices that come with it. He worked in many roles as the project took shape: writer, director, producer, editor, production designer, CG supervisor, character modeler, texturer and lighting artist.

THE TEAM

  • Andrés Palma

    Director, Producer, Co-Writer, Editor, Production Designer & CG Supervisor

  • Jorge R Gutierrez

    Executive Producer

  • Andres Buzo

    Executive producer

  • Karla Vázquez

    Associate producer

  • Santiago Maza Stern

    Co-Writer

  • Alfonso Borbolla, María Penella

    Voices

  • Gregorio Vázquez

    Script doctor

  • Alex Otaola

    Composer

  • Joselo Dorantes, Olivia Arambarri

    Production management

  • Bernardo Segura, Víctor Hernández

    Lead Story Artists

  • Boli Nolasco

    Art direction

  • Javier Avendaño, Greg Jaimes, Emilio Ramírez, Francisco Reséndiz

    Lead Concept Artists

  • Raúl Sánchez

    3D asset supervisor

  • Ulises garcia

    Environment Modeling Supervisor

  • Ricardo Cruz

    Texturing & Look Development Supervisor

  • JUan Brito

    Rigging Supervisor

  • Cristian Cardenas

    Camera Department Supervisor

  • Claris Quintero

    Lead Layout Artist

  • Ricardo Carrera

    Animation supervisor

  • Héctor Melchor, Bibi Fontana, Juan Zapata, David Camiro, Maykol Choqque

    Lead Animators

  • Kal Motola

    Assembly Supervisor

  • Alan Narváez, Natalia Garza

    CFX Supervisors

  • Laura B Castiblanco, Fernanda Paxtián

    Lead CFX Artist

  • Daniela Trejo

    Lead Crowds Simulations TD

  • Pablo Cardenas

    Lighting & Rendering Supervisor

  • Braulio Martínez, Oliver Vera

    Lead Lighting Artists

  • Vania García Escarzaga

    Exhibition Coordinator

  • Vinny MOrales

    Graphic Designer

  • Aldo Candia

    Sound Engineer

  • Jenna Field

    Colourist

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A digital animation and game development studio with multiple people working on computers. The room has dark walls with display shelves and neon signs, and large windows letting in natural light.
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The Students

Shimmer would not exist without the help of scores of students from Escena Animation School. The project was conceived first and foremost as an educational tool, providing teachers with the means to keep honing their skills and providing students with an alternative training path where they could put in practice the knowledge gained in the classroom within a production environment. As such, they were not only part of the journey, but its very reason for being.

Contact us.

Andres Palma, head of studio.
andresp@escuelaescena.com
+52 (55) 6234 7540

Concepción Béistegui 515,
Del Valle Centro, Benito Juárez, 03200, CDMX.