Francesco Paglia

Key responsabilities: - Led end-to-end delivery of large-scale animation productions (€10–15M), coordinating 200+ cross-functional contributors (artists, developers, technical directors, production teams) - Designed and optimized production pipelines and technical workflows, improving efficiency, scalability, and cross-team communication - Defined technical strategy, team structure, and resource allocation for multiple concurrent projects - Acted as the bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholde

Key responsibilities: - Managed departmental leads across the full production pipeline (asset creation → rendering → compositing) - Designed and implemented custom tracking and analytics tools to monitor thousands of concurrent tasks - Introduced data-driven decision-making using metrics such as burn-down charts and performance tracking - Contributed to pipeline software design, collaborating with developers to improve internal tools and workflows - Scaled team operations to support high-throughput producti

Key responsability: Leadership of the lighting, compositing and FX team for the project Talking Tom and Friends (season 2)

as Lead Compositor: "Chiamatemi Francesco", a film by Daniele Luchetti as VFX Supervisor: "On Air - Storia di un successo", a film by Davide Simon Mazzoli "indivisibili", a film by Edoardo De Angelis

As free lance I designed the UX of 3 realtime web app for a show room of an energy company

As free lance I build an on-line team of five artists to work on a Full CGI representation of a new Auditorium

I developed the UX design of a cloud based software to manage the operational rooms of a call center

As free lance I designed the UI and UX of a real time web application that involved full CGI videos. I also directed and led the production of the aforementioned videos made by a team of 4 artists.

As free lance Designer I developed the UX and UI of some mobile web app dedicated to live events, I had the chance to design a product for Oculus Rift 2 that integrates gesture via leap motion.

As free lance Production Manager and designer I led various team of CGI artists working remotely to produce: - 10 full CGI short movies (2 minutes each) - the CGI shots of two industrial videos - 1 augmented reality app - 2 real time application for trade shows - various motion graphic for trade shows Main tasks: Budgeting, artist recruitment, planning and production supervision, lighting and compositing of 3D scenes, UX and UI design

Responsible of the User Experience of ALMATV the web TV portal to teach Italian to foreigners.

CEO, VFX supervisor and Production Manager

Senior Compositor for several project including the international Feature Films The Tulse Luper Suitcases by Peter Greenaway

Digital compositor for the following feature films: - Ricordati di Me - Exorcist the beginning

compositor for the feature film "Natale a casa DeeJay, A Christmass Carroll"

On (client) site demo artist to showcase Digital Restoration Tools and an the DVS Clipster ingesting system

Reportage and news editing for "Omnibus" one of La7 TV production

Resident editor in charge of the post production of: - documentary - reportage - commercials

I've been one of the 20 chosen students between over 1000 participant to the competition to take part on a one year course about VFX development. Lesson were taught by NAD teachers (http://nad.ca/) Main skills acquired: - Modeling, shading, lighting with Softimage 3D - Compositing with Softimage